UPDATE: Animoto just raised a round of investment from Amazon! Congrats Guys!
Animoto is a great idea. They take your photos and create a production quality video to the music of your choice. Its the end of those boring slide shows, for good.
(From a recent Techcrunch article here)
We had the pleasure to work with the Animoto guys to launch their Facebook application, "Animoto Videos", which leveraged all of the existing photos on Facebook. The growth was amazing.
Scaling an application from a few hundred users to over a million in just a few days isnt easy, but we had a great team. Their backend rendering farm lived in Amazon's Cloud, and the growth was so impressive, Jeff Bezos even spoke about them at Y Combinator’s Startup School just a few weeks ago. From 50 EC2 instances to over 4k in only a few days. See the video below.
It was a pleasure working with the entire team from Animoto, RightScale, and Amazon. See their blog posts about the application here, here, and here.
I'm sure I'll cross paths with many of you at RailsConf. First round of beers is on me.
