8 Online Video Editing Business Success Stories [2023]

Howdy! I’m Baird. 👋🤠 I’m a sales guy that loves all things tech but can’t code (I tried. Not for me). I am also a marketer, but I’m not sure exactly how that came to be. I’m a husband and a dad. I love building companies that let me be those things more and provide value to others.

Over the past 3 years, we have bootstrapped the business to $75k in monthly recurring revenue. However, Wavve was born out of a failed startup that we tried to start before it.

Hey, I am Sabba and I am the co-founder of VEED.IO along with my partner in crime Tim. We are a London-based bootstrapped startup. Our web app, VEED, is a simple online video editing platform that allows users to do a bunch of cool stuff like auto subtitle videos, add video effects, add music, trim, rotate videos and much more all in the browser.

We launched just over a year ago, started charging 4 months ago and as of this interview, we are at $5,300 MRR and are just about profitable (Ramen profitable).

Hi, I’m Ching, co-founder of Piktostory. The idea of Piktostory is simple. You can record a video using a webcam or upload one from your computer, Google Drive, or Zoom. Piktostory will auto-transcribe the video for you so that you can have it ready with captions. You can then edit the video like you would edit any text document. Just select a part that you wish to “highlight” or clip using the transcript. This makes editing simpler and faster than using traditional timeline-based video editing.

In a recent promotion, we ran together with a Facebook community group, we managed to get over 350 early adopters - an encouraging early sign that we are onto something!

Paul is the CEO of Kamua, a cloud-based SaaS that lets customers use AI to create and edit videos really quickly. The SaaS is now making $6k in MRR.

Hi there, we’re Ed and Andrew the co-founders of Vidds, an online video editor that focuses on fast, simple video creation by utilizing beautiful pre-designed templates and a super-intuitive user experience. We started working on Vidds in the backend of 2020, ran a private beta in early 2021, and had our public launch (on Product Hunt) in May.

We’re now three months after launch and on average Vidds turnover $2300/month

• Wyzowl is an online video production business founded by Matt Byrom that produces animated commercials for businesses. This company creates entirely unique animated explainer videos with fixed costs, fixed turn-around times, and unlimited revisions.
• Matt decided to start his own company because he noticed a gap in the market as there was no one else to fulfill his needs.
• Since the business's launch in November 2011, Wyzowl has collaborated with large organizations like TNT, Kodak, Deloitte, LG, Crucial, Seagate, and Standard Chartered.
• Matt now has a sizable team of writers, designers, and animators to assist him. His company has created more than 3000 videos for clients around the world, including several Contently clients.

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