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Case study · India · Gamified e-commerce

DealBuddy

A gamified deals app where users compete in rounds for products, ranked in real time.

Client: Basil Nalakath

Play Store ↗App Store ↗

DealBuddy won screen
DealBuddy home screen
DealBuddy timer screen

REGION

India

STACK

Flutter · AWS ECS · Redis · Kafka

TIMELINE

3 months

01Outcomes

Built for the peak.

100K

Concurrent requests handled at peak

~$500/mo

We built DealBuddy scale-to-zero and serverless-first from day one and brought the production cloud bill to about $500/month at peak concurrency — versus a traditional always-on EC2 setup at the same load.

ECS

High availability, deployed on AWS ECS

02The challenge

Real-time ranking under 1 lakh concurrent requests.

Peaks of up to 1 lakh (100,000) concurrent requests at the end of offer deals. Verified in load tests and in real production peaks.

03The solution

An event-driven stack on AWS.

LIVE UPDATES
Firebase and WebSockets
RANKING
Redis sorted sets
COMPUTE
Microservices on AWS ECS and Lambda
STREAMING
Kafka for data streaming
APPS
Flutter apps for iOS and Android
TEAM & TIMELINE
3 months to production
04Gallery

Inside the app.

DealBuddy home screen
DealBuddy won screen
DealBuddy timer screen
DealBuddy app screen
DealBuddy app screen
DealBuddy app screen
DealBuddy app screen

05 · CLIENT

“Rearway made the daunting task of launching our application feel like a breeze. Their team's approachability and sincere dedication to our project were truly refreshing. The innovative solutions in mobile app development brought our ideas to life, and their easy-to-approach attitude made the entire process smooth. I'm grateful for the expertise and support Rearway provided.”

Basil Nalakath

CEO, Deal Buddy

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