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Chris Oliver - The story of GoRails: pivots, near failures, and random surprises

IndieRails

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How to Hack a Business

Wistia was what we were using for the paid videos on GoRails and like, they just don't care about customers like us. Now they're getting into video podcast hosting, which makes a lot of sense. So I actually went down the rabbit hole a year ago and explored like what would it cost and take to build that alternative. And we ended up not making the decision to do it because doing the math and using an underlying tool like Mux is really cheap.

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