Video conferencing
Before Product Hunt, I spent several years building a competitor to Zoom (not successful, but quite rewarding). I’m left with a healthy appreciation for how difficult these tools are to build - in fact, they may be one of the most complex, unreliable tools that we use on a daily basis. On the surface, video chat seems simple, but under the hood there are a myriad of adaptations and tradeoffs that are being made every few milliseconds in response to network and device conditions. Speed matters. Reliability matters. Resolution matters. It’s like the internet itself - dive a bit under the surface and there be dragons.
Rajiv Ayyangar
CEO at Product Hunt
Compliance software
Before I founded Vanta in 2018, very few startups had a SOC 2, the most commonly accepted standard for demonstrating security. That’s because preparing for a SOC 2 was a time-consuming, expensive, and very manual process (think lots of spreadsheets and screenshots). If you were a founder of a growing startup and you had to choose between building new features or implementing a security program, you’d likely go with the former.
Christina Cacioppo
CEO & Co-founder, Vanta
