Sessionize: From idea to 100.000 speakers, and beyond!
summary
A CMS for event submissions that ships from a three‑month prototype into a live bootstrapped SaaS used in 106 countries on seven continents and hosting over 100,000 speaker profiles. Backend is ASP.NET on Azure with App Service, SQL, Azure Tables/Blobs and moved heavy tasks (image resizing, HTML-to-image) to Azure Functions; transactional mail is handled by Postmark after testing many providers. It remains self‑service, free for community events, survives the pandemic with no mass refunds, and tracks 173 feature requests.
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chapters (25)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:35Meet Domagoj
- 2:28What is Sessionize
- 4:23How it all began
- 8:54Building the product
- 9:48Testing the idea
- 12:28The pandemic
- 16:34Automation
- 18:29Selfservice
- 19:53Customer support
- 21:33Bug fixing
- 24:10Transparency
- 25:53Simplicity
- 27:50Giving back
- 29:20Cloud only
- 33:10Tools
- 37:55Cost
- 38:22Future
- 38:53Feature Requests
- 40:31Speaker Profile
- 41:16Session Page
- 42:06Lists
- 43:58Map
- 44:12Future plans
- 45:00Summary
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