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Learn more about how companies across different industries are using the power of Elixir and its ecosystem to create and grow their businesses.

  • Remote logo
    • Growth
    • Team
    • Web

    Growing from zero to unicorn with Elixir

    Remote is the everywhere employment platform enabling companies to find, hire, manage, and pay people anywhere across the world. Founded in 2019, they reached unicorn status in just over two years and have continued their rapid growth trajectory since.

  • Change.org logo
    • Social
    • Broadway

    Delivering social change with Elixir at Change.org

    Change.org is a social change platform, with over 400 million users worldwide. Two years ago, their engineering team faced a challenge to migrate their messaging system from an external vendor to an in-house solution, to reduce costs and gain flexibility.

  • Discord logo
    • Real-Time
    • Genstage
    • OTP

    Real time communication at scale with Elixir at Discord

    Founded in 2015 by Jason Citron and Stan Vishnevskiy, Discord is a permanent, invite-only space for your communities and friends, where people can hop between voice, video, and text, depending on how they want to talk, letting them have conversations in a very natural or authentic way.

  • X-Plane logo
    • Multiplayer
    • UDP
    • OTP

    Bootstrapping a multiplayer server with Elixir at X-Plane

    X-Plane 11 is the world's most comprehensive and powerful flight simulator for personal computers and mobile devices. X-Plane is not a game but an engineering tool created by Laminar Research that can be used to predict the flying qualities of fixed- and rotary-wing aircraft with incredible accuracy.

  • Mozilla Hubs logo
    • Virtual-Spaces
    • Phoenix

    Social virtual spaces with Elixir at Mozilla

    Hubs is Mozilla's take on virtual social experiences. You build your own private spaces and share them with your friends, co-workers, and community. Avatars in this space can move freely in a 3D social environment and watch videos, exchange messages, and talk to other people nearby.

  • Community logo
    • Messaging
    • Broadway

    Social messaging with Elixir at Community

    Community is a platform that enables instant and direct communication with the people you want to reach, using the simplicity of text messaging. Used by names like Paul McCartney, Metallica, and Barack Obama, Community connects small businesses, stars, and high-profile individuals directly to their audiences.

  • V7 logo
    • Computer-Vision
    • Phoenix

    Orchestrating computer vision with Elixir at V7

    V7 is a web platform to create the sense of sight. A hub for machine learning and software engineers to develop their computer vision projects with data set management, image/video labeling, and one-click model training to automate any visual task.

  • Duffel logo
    • API
    • Integration
    • XML

    Integrating travel with Elixir at Duffel

    Duffel is building the new software backbone of the travel industry. Their first product is the Flights API, a developer-friendly platform that enables any business to instantly search flights, make bookings, reserve seats, and sell paid extras like checked bags.

  • Slab logo
    • Collab
    • Phoenix
    • OTP

    Real-time collaboration with Elixir at Slab

    Slab is a knowledge base and team wiki that democratizes knowledge. Jason Chen started Slab in August 2016, after picking Elixir and Phoenix as the best tools to build real-time collaborative applications. The company has grown to 6 engineers since then, distributed worldwide, and relied upon by more than 7000 companies.

  • Heroku logo
    • PaaS
    • Phoenix

    PaaS with Elixir at Heroku

    Heroku provides services and tools to build, run, and scale web applications. They enable developers and teams to focus on the design and craft of their apps. Heroku started development back in 2007, focused on the Ruby programming language, and since then, they have expanded to support multiple runtimes.

  • Farmbot logo
    • Embedded
    • Nerves

    Embedded Elixir at Farmbot

    FarmBot is an open-source precision agriculture CNC farming project that includes a robot farming machine, software, and documentation including a farming data repository. FarmBot's machines use IoT technology to make it easy for farmers to remotely manage their gardens.