We have a product for TV stations that helps them take social media (instagram, fb, twitter text and images) and show it as a part of their broadcasts. One of t

We have a product for TV stations that helps them take social media (instagram, fb, twitter text and images) and show it as a part of their broadcasts. One of the most difficult parts is getting the custom design from the station into our system, because there's a huge learning hurdle if the station designer has to learn our software. So rather than build software that will a) be shitty at first, and b) create new roadblocks, we instead chose a different route which is described here: Manual scaling. They send us a PSD, since they'd already use photoshop to create the look. We then manually convert it into our system. It sucks because it's definitely going to become a weak point of scaling out our system, but till we hit that weak point, we keep going. We've slowly started to build out the design system just to make our lives simpler, and we imagine outsourcing this task to other people outside our company, which means hopefully once we expose it to users, the interface will be simple enough. Just wanted to add our perspective of this. I think a lot of people don't realize what you can do by hand. The only reason why I thought of doing this is because of Aardvark. http://www.justin.tv/startuplessonslearned/b/262666394 http://www.justin.tv/startuplessonslearned/b/262666394 I happened to have been working for Justin.TV and was lucky enough to record that. Otherwise, I bet I'd have been going down the "build it all first!" route. All the other videos: http://lanyrd.com/coverage/?domain=justin.tv&page=2&coverage=video http://lanyrd.com/coverage/?domain=justin.tv&page=2&...