Case Study: Open Me achieves a rapid, sub-2-month web app launch with Pantheon

How Open Me Built a Web App in Less Than 2 Months

Open Me, founded by Ilya Pozin, is a web app that makes it easy to create and send digital and printed greeting cards. Pozin needed to launch quickly but couldn’t divert developers to set up and manage hosting; after evaluating options he declined a $10,000 Amazon hosting credit because the custom Drupal environment would have required too much setup and ongoing admin work.

They chose Pantheon’s out‑of‑the‑box Drupal platform, which provided ready-made dev-test-live workflows and took system administration off the team’s plate. With five full‑time people the core product was built in under two months, nontechnical staff could manage updates, Pantheon’s proactive monitoring reduced operational overhead, and the site launched cost‑effectively and ready to scale for viral social growth.

Open Me

Ilya Pozin

Founder and CEO, Open Me