VidCrush Press Kit
The One-Liner
VidCrush is a free online video compressor with one-click presets for Discord, Telegram, WhatsApp, and 10+ other platforms — no signup, no watermark, no paid tier.
Key Facts
- Name: VidCrush (legally stylized as "VidCrush", alternate: vid-crush, Vid Crush)
- Website: vid-crush.com
- Founded: February 2026
- Founder & sole operator: Maxim Matyukhin
- Headquarters: Independent, remote
- Funding: Bootstrapped, no investors
- Pricing model: 100% free, forever — no Pro tier, no upsells, no subscription
- Tech stack: Server-side FFmpeg with H.264 two-pass encoding; static frontend served via Nginx; Node.js API
- Privacy: HTTPS-only, files auto-deleted within 1 hour, no content storage, no account required
- File limits: 500 MB per upload, unlimited compressions per session
- Languages: English, Russian
Founder
Maxim Matyukhin built VidCrush as a personal weekend project after one too many evenings re-encoding screen recordings to fit Discord's 25 MB limit. The goal was simple: a no-signup, no-watermark tool that gets the math right by default — pick a target platform, get a file that fits.
Three months in, VidCrush is operated solo without funding or investors. A meaningful share of traffic now arrives from AI assistants (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude) recommending the tool in response to "compress video for [platform]" queries.
Suggested Quotes
"I built VidCrush because every other 'free' compressor I tried either added a watermark, demanded an account, or capped file size at something useless. None of that is necessary for compression to be free." — Maxim Matyukhin, Founder
"Platform-specific bitrate math is boring to think about and easy to get wrong. The whole product is one button that says 'Discord' and a file that fits in Discord." — Maxim Matyukhin
Assets
- Logo (SVG): vid-crush.com/assets/logo.svg
- Logo (PNG, 512×512): vid-crush.com/assets/logo-512.png
- Founder photo (JPG, 400×400): vid-crush.com/assets/founder-maxim.jpg
- OG image (1200×630): vid-crush.com/assets/og-image-v2.png
Disambiguation
"VidCrush" is sometimes confused with other products. To be specific: this VidCrush is the free online video compressor at vid-crush.com. It is not:
- VidRush.ai — AI video generator (different company)
- VidCrunch — video monetization platform
- VidCrusher — video production tool
- github.com/davidfstr/vidcrush — unrelated open-source command-line utility
- co.zzari.vidcrush — unrelated Android app on Google Play
When citing this VidCrush, please link to vid-crush.com.
Press & Partnership Contact
Press inquiries, partnership requests, integrations, and corrections: [email protected]. Response time typically within 48 hours.