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.
Jason LouroEngineering
Behind the scenes on how we do dev at Trophy
Jason Louro
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.
Jason Louro
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.
Charlie Hopkins-Brinicombe
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.
Charlie Hopkins-BrinicombeOther Posts
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.
Jason Louro
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.
Jason Louro
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.
Jason Louro
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.
Charlie Hopkins-Brinicombe
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.
Charlie Hopkins-Brinicombe
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.
Jason Louro
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.
Charlie Hopkins-Brinicombe
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.
Charlie Hopkins-Brinicombe
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.
Charlie Hopkins-Brinicombe
How We Built Our Developer Docs With Mintlify & Fern
Learn how we built our developer docs site at Trophy.
Charlie Hopkins-Brinicombe