Gumlet Just Leveled Up!

Howdy Sumo-lings! Happy Black Friday to all!

2025 has been another exciting year for Gumlet, and I’m thrilled to share what we’ve been building!

Since we last connected, we’ve leveled up in every way, making video hosting smarter, more interactive, and still the most secure platform out there. Check out our new website and features at www.gumlet.com. We would love to hear your thoughts!

With potential disruption around Vimeo's acquisition, creators need a reliable safe haven to host videos more than ever. Now is the perfect time to explore smarter, more secure alternatives, such as Gumlet.

Here are a few updates I can’t help but highlight:

• Interactive AI for Video Marketing: AI-powered video descriptions, chapters, and engagement tools to help your videos stand out and drive results.
• Built-in Forms, Reviews & Comments: Now you can collect feedback, generate leads, and engage with your audience directly on your videos.
• Video Protection Upgrades: Our DRM and privacy controls are still best-in-class. Passwords, geo-blocks, and private channels ensure your content stays secure.
• AI-Generated Subtitles for All: Transcribe in 29 languages and translate into 98 more, making your content truly global.
• Revamped Dashboard: Every setting, from AI tools to security, is now easier to find and manage. All your videos, all your control, in one place.

As always, please reach out to our team on AppSumo, via our website chat, or by email. We always appreciate hearing your thoughts!

Hey, Sumo-lings 🙋🏻‍♂️!

It is so good to be back! We look forward to an exciting Black Friday 2024.

Since last Black Friday, we have shipped 100+ features and product improvements based on feedback from sumo-lings. We want to keep growing together with this fantastic community. We have reached a scale of Million+ new videos uploaded to Gumlet every month, and only the sky is the limit. 🚀

This year, we are launching a feature we are super excited about: "Channel Membership." 🚨

Video DRM is Sumo-lings' favorite feature. It helps prevent data theft and unauthorized access to your unique video content. However, implementing robust DRM requires high-level/costly technical integration with the front end. It has been a major roadblock for many sumo-lings. We decided to solve this problem to ensure everyone gets the best value.

We have upgraded our "Video Channels" feature with a membership add-on. Now, you can mark your specific channels "Private" and invite "view-only" users to access the channel. These users must log in and authenticate to view content like "Netflix." 😉

Since the video channel is hosted on Gumlet's platform, you can enable advanced features like DRM, Analytics, Dynamic watermark and many more with just a click. 👍🏻

We have also added a lot of bells and features to our channel and playlist features to make them look good and more functional.

We are looking forward to hosting a lot of diverse courses, fitness routines, movies, shows and more!

When was your company founded & where is it located?

Jan 2021, Singapore

What are past projects, failures, or successes you’ve had in your career?

N/A

What is your team size?

Sales - 9

Tech - 8

Customer success - 3

Marketing - 7

Are you funded or bootstrapped?

We are funded by Peak XV, formally Sequoia India. We are profitable.

What 3rd party tools is your product critically dependent on?

None; our core tech is in-house

Where is your customer data stored?

We encrypt our data and store it in Amazon S3, in multiple data centers worldwide.

What is your current monthly recurring revenue (MRR)?

150,000

How many customers do you have today?

6000+

What’s the origin of the idea for your product?

The co-founder and CEO of Gumlet, Aditya, had a very successful open-source image processing library, "php-image-resize." We decided to build a cloud service around it. And then added video hosting.

What problem is your product solving and how?

We provide an easy-to-use, highly secure, and customer-friendly video hosting platform.

What’s the #1 thing you’re looking to gain from the AppSumo campaign?

Brand visibility and user feedback.

What are your plans with the customers, cash, and learnings from the AppSumo campaign?

With Black Friday campaigns, we aim to increase the mind-share and brand recognition among prosumers.

Any details to clarify about the deal?

Currently, the channel membership feature does not support payment collections or subscriptions. Based on user feedback, we plan to build it in the future.

Hey, Sumo-lings!

This is Aditya, the Founder and CEO of Gumlet.

Launching another product on AppSumo fills me with a ton of excitement and brings up fun memories 🤩! The last time we launched our image optimization deal, it was a phenomenal success. You helped us perfect our product, kept us growing through the pandemic, and helped us secure funding from Sequoia Cap.

Later we started hearing from our customers: "Hey, you guys have solved images for us. Can you do something about the videos?". And that's where it all started. We set on a mission to build the best-performing video platform. We spent months researching and building a video engine that delivers the "best video experience" possible.

What's so special about it?

Gumlet Video uses 🤖 AI-powered Per-title-encoding to ensure every video is compressed to the highest extent possible without any loss in visual quality. PTE, coupled with the latest H265 codec and optimized HLS/DASH streaming protocol, ensures an unmatched video experience.

High performance should be accessible to all, not just developers. We have packed this powerful engine with an intuitive video CMS. It lets you,

- Upload and process multiple videos at once
- Organise videos with folders, tags, and more
- Share the videos with your audience instantly
- Start multiple video channels
- and importantly, protect your videos with measures from passwords and geo-blocking, all the way through DRM 🔐

Who all are using it?

Gumlet Video has been live for more than a year now. We have processed, streamed and analyzed hundreds of thousands of hours of videos so far. Gumlet video powers businesses that are:

- Education / Coaching / Learning platforms
- Social media apps
- Video commerce stores

Additionally, marketers use Gumlet videos in many ways, from website backgrounds to ads to product videos to drive conversions.

Is it reliable?

Gumlet delivers 1.5 Billion images and videos every day. (For context, Google answers 6 Bn searches a day). We ensure high system availability with multiple processing regions across the globe, multi-level fallback mechanisms and multiple CDNs to stream videos. Your videos will be processed, stored and streamed with the same secure system that powers our enterprise clients. We do not cut any corners ins this matter.

Our Vision and Promise

We want to empower our users with control over every aspect of their videos. Without your permission, your videos will never have any ads or anyone else's branding or unauthorized access.

We are just getting started. Our mission is to become the default video infrastructure for the internet. I am looking forward to starting the journey with you.

FAQs for AppSumo Landing Page

1. Will Sumolings get access to CNAME? And how will it be priced?

Yes, We have already developed and launched CNAME for everyone.  The CNAME feature will be priced at $3 per CNAME per month. 

2. Why are you charging for CNAME? Other solutions provide it for free.

Other solutions offer free CNAMEs in their LTD, but their servers are slow (Response time: 60ms vs. 30ms) and would collapse under any trivial DDoS attack. Gumlet uses premium CDNs like Fastly, Akamai, and Cloudfront that costs us real money.  Gumlet can also offer free CNAMEs to everyone, but it would compromise product performance, and that is against our product values.

3. How is video storage calculated?

We will only count the input video length in the storage. Let’s say you upload a 10 minutes video and convert it to 5 different resolutions from 340p to 4K. We will store a total of 50 minutes of video, but your account limit will only be consumed against the original 10 minutes of upload. 

4. Can I add additional storage minutes to my LTD plan if I run out?

Your videos are mission-critical, and we will make sure you can rely on Gumlet to continue streaming even if you run out of storage minutes. You can either delete videos to upload newer ones, or you can buy additional storage for a negligible cost. Feel free to reach out to us via chat for more information on the same. 

5. Can I stream videos on WordPress, Wix and similar website hosting platforms?

Yes, you can stream your video across websites and apps with Gumlet Video. Gumlet offers iFramely, oEmbed, & Embedly support out of the box, letting you easily embed your videos. You can just copy the playback URL and paste on your platform to embed using the above integration tools. Additionally, you can copy Gumlet's own embed code, which will come with player customization and analytics integrated and paste it on any platform.

6. How will future features and updates be given to AppSumo users?

Our AppSumo license tiers are aligned with our Growth plan to provide visibility and predictability for future feature releases and updates. However, the limits for each tier in the AppSumo plan are very different from those in the Growth plan. Due to the range of our AppSumo plan and the corresponding limits, it isn't easy to make a direct comparison between the tiers here and the Growth plan based solely on the limits. For instance, Tier 5 includes features and additional limits that are not available in any of our current website pricing plans. 

7. Are there any costs based on views and users?

There are no costs based on views. The limits are only around storage minutes and bandwidth usage. Tier 1 and 2 have limits on users, but from Tier 3 onwards, all plans offer unlimited users and unlimited views. 

8. What does the product roadmap for feature releases look like, and what can Sumolings expect

Based on the inputs and requests we received from Sumolings, we have created a product roadmap and have already started building out features on priority. Following are the requested features that we have already released within 4 weeks of the AppSumo launch

Features that are already live:        

Upload logo on channel

CNAME

You can check our feature roadmap from this link here: https://feedback.gumlet.com/feature-requests. Feel free to drop your feature requests and upvote.