S4 E5: Daniel Hauschildt, Img.ly

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Noah Labhart - Startup Founder & CTO

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🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Daniel Haushchildt lives in Germany, in a town called Boholm. 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. Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Well, you always make mistakes in technology.
0:05.0	And making mistakes is nothing bad.
0:07.0	So it often is regarded as that.
0:09.0	I don't know why, but it's part of the learning process.
0:12.0	And that's what I'm trying to tell everyone.
0:15.0	Before we were doing, this a long time ago, but before we were doing all this stuff like scrum,
0:20.0	and we were like doing this planning long time ago, but before we were doing all this stuff like scrum and we were
0:20.9	like doing this planning poker and doing estimations, which turned out to be a bit more like
0:26.7	a gut feeling of estimations and no real estimate. And we kind of based our, let's say, releases
0:34.7	on that, which always fails or often fails.
0:38.7	I'm Daniel Harseld. I'm the co-founder and CTO of ImageLea.
0:47.9	This is Code Story, a podcast bringing you interviews with tech visionaries
0:53.1	who share in the critical moments of what it takes to change in industry
0:57.3	and build and lead a team that has your back.
1:02.3	I'm your host, Noel A Labart,
1:04.3	and today how Daniel Houshild is steadily building the creative engine for the world of images.
1:13.6	All this and more on Coat Story.
1:19.6	Daniel Houshield lives in Germany in a town called Boholm.
1:23.8	He comes from a family of craftsmen, which means that he wasn't involved in tech at an early age.
1:29.0	He stayed busy with friends and sports, more specifically archery, where he learned about patience, concentration, and competition.
1:37.3	In his younger years, he clung to a long bow but steadily moved towards using higher tech, a compound bow in his later years.
1:43.8	When he was 14 years old,
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