Jack Sharkey
@jacksharkey11
Co-Founder / CTO @WhopIO
Brief overview of how we migrated 800GB of data from Postgres -> Planetscale with zero downtime 👇
Whop is building the #1 global creator marketplace. @jacksharkey11, Whop co-founder and CTO, covers how they migrated their 800GB Postgres database to PlanetScale with no downtime and no interruption to site traffic.
Another W week at Whop >Custom app organization >Full mobile/web parity >Pay with Whop Balance >Embedded checkout >Pin DMs >iOS app store The breakdown ↓
Well someone saw this and decided to make me eat my words We just mitigated a REAL DDoS attack. Get tf outta here.
Friendly reminder that most DDOS attacks are self-induced by your own infinite looping javascript (a PR caused this)
Friendly reminder that most DDOS attacks are self-induced by your own infinite looping javascript (a PR caused this)
We’re giving you 48 hours to win up to $500k for building a Whop app IRL hackathon in NYC with @QwQiao + @lmrankhan (Alliance), @cultured (Whop), @pasternak (Believe) Guaranteed spot in @alliancedao + up to $500k investment to the winner August 23-25. Apply now.
WHERE ARE ALL THE CRACKED ANDROID ENGINEERS?? Hiring staff-level engs at @WhopIO to work on a new modular codebase (Compose, Hilt, Room) ✨ 4.6⭐️ app 📱 500K+ users 💸 $300K+ cash + equity 🏠 $9K rent stipend 🍽️ Free food + Equinox Apply → careers.whop.com/?gh_jid=456312… RTs 🫡
Writing code without a co-pilot brings me immense joy. I feel like a renaissance painter carefully detailing my life's work.
“Whop’s mission is to make people a lot of money on the internet.” -- Whop CTO, Jack Sharkey (@jacksharkey11)
New mission: get rich
So much time and attention to detail went into this. @beechinour is built different 🔥🔥 Join his whop to learn how to make videos like this: whop.com/aivideolabs/?a…
New mission: get rich
“Rails doesn’t scale” Whop does $1B+/yr, 150k RPM, real-time chat, notifications, payments, and live streaming — all on Rails. Maintained by 5 backend engineers. See you at #RailsWorld.
Launched in 2021 on a #Rails monolith, @WhopIO now processes $1B+, handles 150k RPM, and runs a feature-complete marketplace with real-time chat, notifications, payments, and live streaming - all with just 15 engineers. Co-founder & CTO @jacksharkey11 is at #RailsWorld to share…
Whop eng team bbq Plotting the week, sprint planning is for losers
Just saw Zuck outside the original facebook office. Surreal moment.
Issues have been fixed! Apologies for inconvenience
We are currently fixing an issue with whop.com! standby, we’re on it.
We are currently fixing an issue with whop.com! standby, we’re on it.
never doubt the @evilmartians they just cut our CI time in half in one week. @inazarova and @palkan_tula know what they're doing...happy customer over here.
Awesome articulation of the Whop mission and story by Cameron
Rarely ever do podcasts/film day in the life Hopefully there's a few good nuggets that help push someone to launch their first business 🪂
How to build a Whop App with the Whop developer API and NextJS