Company Spotlight: Higher Pixels & Buzzsprout, a Podcast Hosting Platform Powered by Ruby on Rails

In this interview with Tom Rossi (co-founder of Higher Pixels), we cover: 💎 How Higher Pixels pivoted from client work to building their own products in 2001 💎 Discovering Ruby on Rails in 2005 and why they’ve kept their stack “as vanilla as possible” 💎 Early products like Tick (time tracking) and M Sites (nonprofit websites) 💎 The origins of Buzzsprout when churches asked how to share sermons online 💎 How Buzzsprout scaled through the iPhone boom, Serial, and the COVID podcast wave 💎 How their experience at scale could shape Rails’ future in serving public assets through open source contributions 💎 Why Tom recommends Ruby on Rails for new startups today You can read our full company spotlight on Higher Pixels and Buzzsprout on the Ruby Central blog: https://rubycentral.org/news/company-spotlight-buzzsprout-and-the-lasting-power-of-vanilla-ruby-on-rails/