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Ruby startup demo – Peter Philips

Talkat San Francisco Ruby Conference 2025 · 2025-11-19..11-21· [ruby]
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SaaS employee-recognition product claims $3M ARR, 200 customers, one launch at 80,000 employees, 3.5M shared moments and ~60,000 monthly active users across 30 countries; rewards include points, swag, live events and quirky banana suit custom redemptions. Built on Rails (3.2→7.1), moved from Capistrano to autoscaled AWS, ~53,000 commits and ~13,000 tests that finish in ~10 minutes with parallelization. UI focuses on two clicks to recognition with deep Slack and Teams integrations; backend runs an async pub subsystem handling up to 500,000 jobs per day.

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