Case Study: Metigy achieves scalable, maintenance-free media processing with Uploadcare

Build or buy? Sunsetting a fragile in‑house media processing solution

Metigy, a fast-growing B2B SaaS startup that helps small businesses plan and publish social content, faced a fragile in-house file-upload and media-processing system that was unreliable, didn’t cover all use cases, and demanded ongoing developer maintenance. To meet requirements for functionality, scalability, and reliability around image and video uploads and editing, Metigy replaced the homegrown stack with Uploadcare’s end-to-end media pipeline.

Uploadcare’s ready-to-integrate solution (images and video processing, multi-upload, progress UI, large-file and video handling) was live in under a day and absorbed storage, processing, and support overhead. The switch let Metigy focus on product growth while Uploadcare handled media: 198,167 files uploaded in 2020, smooth processing for 26K businesses, scaling to thousands of customers with a 30-person team, and effectively zero time spent on maintenance or troubleshooting.

Metigy

David Fairfull

CEO and Co-founder