Case Study: Chatra achieves a 2-month faster time-to-market and $10K initial savings with Uploadcare

How Chatra reduced time to market by 2 months and saved $10K

Chatra is a cloud-based live chat platform that needed to hit the market quickly but lacked resources to build and maintain file-handling infrastructure. Building an in-house uploader would have taken about two months, cost roughly $10K up front, and created continuous maintenance work to keep up with browser changes, so Chatra chose Uploadcare (File Uploader by Uploadcare) as a ready-made solution.

By integrating Uploadcare’s File Uploader (avatars in a day, file transfers added later), Chatra focused on core features and launched faster. Using Uploadcare helped Chatra reach market two months earlier, save about $10K in initial development, eliminate the maintenance burden (100% reduction), and support large-scale usage (≈60 TB/month and 40,000 active users) with reliable uptime.

Chatra

Slava Olesik

Co- Founder and COO