Wildbit

Wildbit
Type Privately held company
Founded 1999
Headquarters Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Founder(s) Chris Nagele
Natalie Nagele
Industry Software
Website wildbit.com

Wildbit is a bootstrapped software company that builds web apps to help software developers collaborate more effectively. The company was founded in 1999 as a web development consultancy, and launched their first web app in 2005. The company is located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.[1]

Wildbit worked exclusively as a remote team until 2012, when the company helped voluntarily relocate the majority of their team to Philadelphia.[2]

Services

Since 2007 Wildbit has created four products: Newsberry, Beanstalk, Postmark, and Dploy.io.

Newsberry

Newsberry started as a service Wildbit gave to their existing web development clients, before becoming their first software product.[3] The service was publicly announced and launched in beta in 2005,[4] before launching a full updated version in 2006.[5]

Wildbit shut down Newsberry on January 2, 2012.[6] The founders explained they entertained offers to sell Newsberry,[7] but instead choose to focus Wildbit’s effort on building products more aligned with services their team used on a daily basis.[8]

Beanstalk

Beanstalk was launched by Wildbit in 2007 as an early provider of hosted version control software.[9] Initially this service supported Subversion repositories exclusively, until it launched support for Git in 2010.[10]

Beanstalk was an early example of a service built around a freemium model. Their initial launch offered a free plan that was supplemented over time with paid plans that included additional features.[11]

Postmark

Postmark is a cloud-based transactional email platform Wildbit launched in 2009.[12] Based on experience the company gained while building Newsberry, the service provides an API or SMTP access to send emails based on actions a user has taken on a website or app.

Dploy.io

Dploy is a continuous deployment app launched by Wildbit in 2013. The service was designed to extend a feature from Beanstalk, deployments, to other hosted version control platforms.[13]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Customer Spotlight: Wildbit". Signal v. Noise. 24 September 2013. Retrieved 9 March 2015.
  2. ↑ "Wildbit focusing on products and location, opens first office in Old City". Technical.ly - Philly. 20 March 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  3. ↑ "Beanstalk: Bootstrapped, Run Virtually, Generating $1+ Mil Annually – with Chris Nagele". Mixergy. 24 November 2010. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  4. ↑ "Newsberry: Email Marketing Service". 16 August 2005. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  5. ↑ "Newsberry is here". 24 October 2006. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  6. ↑ "A difficult day". 8 November 2011. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  7. ↑ "Why we shut down Newsberry Part 2: Why we didn’t sell". 20 February 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  8. ↑ "Why we shut down a product that was $75,000/year profitable". 26 January 2012. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  9. ↑ "Beanstalk - Crunchbase". Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  10. ↑ "Git support is official!". Beanstalk. 11 March 2010. Retrieved 2 April 2015.
  11. ↑ Johnathon Williams (9 September 2009). "Harness the Power of 'Freemium'". Entrepreneur. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
  12. ↑ Chris Nagele (21 October 2009). "Announcing Postmark: Email delivery in the cloud". Wildbit. Retrieved 6 April 2015.
  13. ↑ Natalie Nagele (17 September 2013). "dploy.io, our third product!". Wildbit. Retrieved 6 April 2015.

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