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How to Build an Energy FeatureGamification Guides

How to Build an Energy Feature

Building energy systems from scratch means handling regeneration, consumption, and caps. Here's the technical reality and faster path.

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How to Build an XP FeatureGamification Guides

How to Build an XP Feature

Building XP systems from scratch means handling points triggers, economic balance, and award logic. Here's the technical reality and faster path.

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How to Build a Streaks FeatureGamification Guides

How to Build a Streaks Feature

Building streak tracking from scratch means solving time zones, consistency, and edge cases. Here's the technical reality and faster path.

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How to Build a Leaderboards FeatureGamification Guides

How to Build a Leaderboards Feature

Building leaderboards from scratch takes months and creates ongoing maintenance burden. Here's the technical reality and a faster alternative.

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Handling Time Zones in Global Gamification FeaturesEngineering

Handling Time Zones in Global Gamification Features

Time zones break gamification features in subtle ways. A user in Tokyo and a user in New York can't fairly compete on daily goals without careful handling.

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The Technical Architecture Behind Scalable GamificationMigration and Evolution

The Technical Architecture Behind Scalable Gamification

Building gamification that works at 1,000 users is different from building for 100,000. Here's what changes and why.

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Why Building the Store Dashboard Took 85% of Development TimePodcast

Why Building the Store Dashboard Took 85% of Development Time

While most consumer apps focus on the user experience, Buen Provecho spent 2023-2024 primarily improving their web app for stores. Guillermo explains why solving the supply side was more important than consumer features.

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From Print to Digital: The Technical Challenge of Converting 19th Century Cookbooks into Searchable ContentEngineering

From Print to Digital: The Technical Challenge of Converting 19th Century Cookbooks into Searchable Content

Building a content platform is one thing. Building one that can handle Victorian-era cookbooks is an entirely different technical challenge. Matthew Cockerill, founder of CKBK, learned this firsthand when he set out to digitize the world's best cookbooks into a unified, searchable database.

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How To Create a Duolingo-style Points Feature For Your Web or Mobile AppEngineering

How To Create a Duolingo-style Points Feature For Your Web or Mobile App

Learn how Duolingo's XP feature drives user engagement and how to build an XP feature for your web or mobile app.

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How we built a block-based template editor for gamification emailsEngineering

How we built a block-based template editor for gamification emails

Read about how we built our email-builder. Hear the difficulties and successes we had + lessons learned.

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The Technical Reality of Building E-commerce and Social Media in One PlatformEngineering

The Technical Reality of Building E-commerce and Social Media in One Platform

Building a social network is hard. Building an e-commerce marketplace is hard. Combining both into a single platform? Even harder. That's what João Neves and his team at Bloop discovered as they set out to create the world's first social shopping platform that rewards users for their influence.

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How to Send Charts in Lifecycle Email Campaigns (Don’t Use Images!)Design

How to Send Charts in Lifecycle Email Campaigns (Don’t Use Images!)

Using charts in emails is great for engagement, but can hurt email deliverability. Here's the solution.

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Building a B2C Platform Without a Tech Background: How I Hacked My Way to an MVPPodcast

Building a B2C Platform Without a Tech Background: How I Hacked My Way to an MVP

In the B2C startup world, there’s still a lingering myth: if you’re not technical, you can’t build a tech company. Max, the founder of Adventuro, didn’t buy that. Learn how Max built his startup in 11 weeks and landed his first 50 customers a couple of months later.

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How We Built Our Developer Docs With Mintlify & FernEngineering

How We Built Our Developer Docs With Mintlify & Fern

Learn how we built our developer docs site at Trophy.

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