2023 • Backend & mobile, DeviTeam

GoCampus

Campus life, digitized.

5,000+

users

1,000

DAU

1.3M MAD

processed

99.75%

crash-free

Overview

GoCampus is the mobile app students at Al Akhawayn University use to get around campus: class schedules, an interactive map, van schedules, density monitoring, and cash wallet refills, in one place.

The Problem

Navigating university life as a new student was unnecessarily complicated. Class locations were scattered across a sprawling campus, schedules changed frequently, and essential information was fragmented across multiple platforms. Students wasted time and energy on logistics instead of learning.

Tech Stack

React NativeTypeScriptNode.js

The Approach

1

Money is the part that has to work

7,000 cash-wallet refills, 1.3M MAD through the app. Payments are where a campus app stops being a convenience and starts being something people file complaints about. 99.75% crash-free on the release that carried it.

2

Built for the phone in a pocket

React Native across iOS and Android, one codebase for a campus where nobody is on the same device. Peak traffic hit 70 users per minute.

3

Asked first, built second

Surveys with 200+ students set the scope. Finding classrooms, tracking schedule changes, and getting at dining information came back as the top three, so those shipped first.

Challenges

Launch day

2,000 concurrent users on day one. Optimized the hot queries and cached aggressively once it was clear which endpoints were carrying the load.

Outcomes

  • Ranked #4 in the education category on the Morocco App Store
  • 5,000+ users, 1,000 daily active
  • 7,000 cash wallet refills totaling 1.3M MAD
  • 99.75% crash-free rate in the latest release
  • Cut "lost student" incidents by an estimated 60%

Role

Backend & mobile, DeviTeam

Duration

4 months

Year

2023

Stack

3 technologies