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title: "Building the Canvas for Developers with IMG.LY"
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# Building the Canvas for Developers with IMG.LY

Code Story | Startup Podcast for Technical Founders — S4 E5: Building the Canvas for Developers: How IMG.LY Scaled a Media Editing Engine with Daniel Hauschildt Press Play to Listen While You Browse S4 E5: Building the Canvas for Developers: How IMG.LY Scaled a Media Editing Engine with Daniel Hauschildt Code Story | Startup Podcast for Technical Founders 0:00 26:15 1× Daniel Hauschildt lives in Germany, in a town called Bochum. He comes from a family of craftsmen, which means that he wasn't involved in tech at an early age. He stayed busy with friends and sports, more specifically archery, where he learned about patience, concentration and competition. In his younger years, he clung to a long bow, but steadily moved towards using a higher tech, compound bow in later years. When he was 14 years old, he got into cracking video games, which lead him down the path of coding, and learning the assembly language. He recalls the first game he cracked was X Wing vs Tye Fighter. In 2008, his current company started out as an image hosting service for Twitter (you may remember seeing the links while using the platform). When Twitter built their own, it pretty much shut down the first product. During that time, many customers of the agency 9 Elements were asking for tools around image processing, resizing, etc. So they started building a tool to do those things. This is the creation story of Img.ly. Sponsors Shape & Foster Jennifer Brazer Links Website: https://img.ly/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielhauschildt/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian_Thrun Leave us a review on Apple Podcasts Amazing tools we use: If you want the best publishing platform for your podcast, with amazing support & people - use Transistor.fm Want to record your remote interviews with class? Then, you need to use Squadcast . Code Story uses the 1-click product ClipGain , sign up now to get 3hrs of podcast processing time FREE Credits: Code Story is hosted and produced by Noah Labhart. Be sure to subscribe on Apple Podcasts , Spotify , Pocket Casts , Google Play , Breaker , Youtube , or the podcasting app of your choice. Checkout our episode stacks on Stacklist! https://stacks.codestory.co/ Hosted by Noah Labhart | Technical Founder & Startup Mentor. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy Latest Season of the Podcast is Sponsored By