- Industry
- SaaS, Real Estate Technology
- Founded
- 2019
- Headquarters
- Boston, MA, USA
- Website
- aryeo.com
- Upload reliability, up from 95%
- 99.9%
- High-res image uploads per day, up from 10K
- 200K
- Saved in initial build costs with zero maintenance
- $10,000+
We could put an engineer or two for a month and spend about $10,000 to $20,000 to build out our own equivalent solution. That’s what we did at first. The problem we ran into is that we can build out the system, but we can’t continuously spend resources to make it work 100% of the time.
Branick WeixCEO
Executive summary
Aryeo is a content management platform for real estate agents and photographers. It helps them sell homes through visual content, mostly professional property photos. The company was facing challenges with its in-house uploader, which had a 5% error rate and couldn’t keep up with the thousands of daily high-resolution image uploads. By integrating Uploadcare File Uploader, Aryeo improved its uptime from 95% to 99.9%, ensuring the fast and stable processing of multiple large files simultaneously and eliminating failures that disrupted users’ workflows.
The challenge: before Uploadcare, Aryeo was struggling to manage a large volume of high-resolution images
As a platform built for professional real estate photography, Aryeo handles large, high-resolution images uploaded in batches of 40 files per property, on average. With tens of thousands of uploads each day, their in-house uploader built with open-source packages worked only 95% of the time.
That remaining 5% failure rate created an unreliable experience for photographers and added strain to Aryeo’s small development team. It became clear that their existing solution could not keep up with the platform’s growing scale.
The hard part is making sure that if you’re uploading 5,000 images, it will work 5,000 times. If it doesn’t work once, that’s a show-stopper for the customer and what they’re doing.
The solution: Aryeo chose Uploadcare for its speed and reliability
To find the right solution, Aryeo tested several third-party providers. Speed was a key factor during evaluation, and Uploadcare stood out by processing images the fastest in their internal tests compared to other services they considered.
The team also needed a solution that could scale with growing upload volume without building and maintaining additional upload infrastructure.
How Uploadcare helped
- Same day launch: The uploader was embedded via the JavaScript widget in less than a day, with ongoing maintenance and support handled externally so the team could stay focused on the core product.
- Fast & reliable uploads: Uploadcare File Uploader handled large batches of high-resolution images without failures, replacing the inconsistent behavior of the in-house tool.
- Automatic image resizing: Images were resized on the fly, creating multiple dimensions from a single high-resolution upload and saving photographers time and effort in creating multiple versions of the same image.
The results
Since implementing Uploadcare, Aryeo has seen significant, measurable improvements in user experience and platform performance:
- Enhanced user experience: Aryeo’s users no longer worry about failed uploads, and the need to resize images beforehand has been eliminated.
- Improved uptime: The platform’s uptime increased from 95% to 99.9%, providing a more reliable service for their customers.
- Lower engineering costs: The team avoided more than $10,000 in development and maintenance expenses by removing the need to support their own uploader.
- Upload performance at scale: Aryeo now supports nearly 200,000 image uploads per day while keeping batch uploads fast and consistent.
After we switched to Uploadcare, our uptime improved from 95% to 99.9%, and with tens of thousands of pieces of content uploaded daily, that small change made a huge difference.