Mindstamp

A user was referred to Mindstamp after another existing service was shut down. After a few days of emails discovering their use case and needs, they decided to become a customer!

Note: they will use Mindstamp for group training exercises involving video. These exercises happen ~4 times a year, so they won't need a continuous subscription, only a month or two at a time starting in October.

An early user's trial ran out and I asked them if they might be willing to pay. Turns out they already entered their payment info and considered themselves a customer 😎

Most of the code / structure was reused from Aech. Combined with Rails' awesome gems like Devise, I was able to get a basic alpha up pretty quickly.

After launching Aech, a social video annotation app, in August of 2017, I learned two things:

1. Social is hard. A social web app in 2017 is even harder.
2. The most interested parties saw the potential of video annotation for business rather than pleasure.

In January of 2018 I started doing user research to find out what a professional-focused video product would be comprised of and Mindstamp was born.