Engineering insights, architecture deep-dives, and product thinking from the Planthesia studio.
A deep-dive into the architectural decisions — edge caching, ISR, and database connection pooling — that allowed us to serve 10,000 daily users on a $20/month infrastructure budget.
The engineering story behind StreetBite: spatial indexing, query optimisation, and the performance trade-offs that brought average API response time under 50ms.
An evidence-based look at the RPG mechanics we implemented in Focus Arena — what moved the retention needle, what flopped, and why intrinsic motivation beats point systems every time.