Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “What Happened to Luke?”.
Okay, this one’s from AJ. How did Luke become the CEO of floatplane, where you offered the job or did you apply, slash ask for it. I’Ve heard you talk about coding development. Before did you do that before you started working at LTT, I find it very thematic. Uh that this came from a person named AJ as AJ was the first person that we hired for the project and it’s still uh instrumental, luckily to Me instrumental and is still working on the project um. I am not tonight. I am not yeah he’s bailing us out potentially right now, actually because, as far as I know, he can’t download this second one until we’re done he’s on East Coast time, so we actually should close.
This shout out AJ thanks AJ. Sorry, thank you. Thank you. This is not the first time and it will not be the last time that I call AJ out of nowhere and I’m like hey. I need you to save me. Uh he’s in chat, yeah hi, I’m sorry! Thank you! Um yeah uh. I so I’m not! The CEO of floatplane um, how is I, how did I get the job? Yes, I’m CEO and probably cto2 is that official or is that just no effective, I mean yeah yeah, he runs it. Let’S put it that way. Yeah I so when vessel went down, vessel was a platform that we used to be on that did Early Access, video. Whatever, when vessel went down, we started a thing on the Forum, which was just a sub part of the Forum called Rip vessel, and I found a way to mess with the Forum software that we had to force video to sort of maybe kind of go through.
It the idea was that people could download it and that sort of worked, and then we realized by accident that a bunch of browsers do you remember this? A bunch of browsers would determine that they could just stream the video yeah as a yeah. It would just like play it and we were like wait. What is it that easy? That’S pretty cool? This should be really easy to do and then uh spoiler alert, really hard, um and then pretty early in I was like whoa. I have no idea what I’m doing uh and AJ actually posted a big like. I think it was a Google doc that he shared. I think that’s how it was done, but he posted a big thing on the Forum being like uh yeah by the way.
Here’S a plan for like probably a better, more proper way of doing what you’re trying to do um and it was fairly similar to what Jake, Jake tyvee yeah and I had kind of come up with. But again we weren’t really prepared and AJ’s proposal, for it was like way better. So I was like Hey help me um and then we’ve just been sort of doing it ever since there was never really. I don’t think there was ever really like.
I didn’t apply for it. I don’t think I asked for it. Oh definitely not it just yeah, it’s it just sort of happened. It was a revenue source that we had absolutely no replacement for at that time, we were one that we needed and there was no other platform that was really doing what vessel was doing, so we needed to Port people somewhere and we needed it now, which basically Meant we needed to develop it internally when I was the only person who had any chance, and I barely had a chance and then AJ bailed me out, and then we brought on uh Yuki not way too long after that.
Both of those Peeps are still on the team and still killing it yep um, and we would be nowhere without them um, and then we brought up other people along the way and now we’re here. I don’t know it just it just it sort of happened. It was very not formal I’ll say that much .