I dream about… tokens??

🚀 Road to 1,000,000 #Votap users — Day 61 | Current: 1295

I dream about… tokens??

Push notifications in Votap have been pretty simple so far. If you follow a politician or based on your country → we send topic-based notifications (basically broadcast to a group). Easy.

But now I’m building notifications for comment replies…

Which means:

they have to be user-specific.

And suddenly everything gets… interesting.

Tokens:

→ rotate all the time

→ are tied to a device, not a user (so login/logout matters)

→ expire if not used

→ and if you don’t clean them up → they hurt your delivery performance

So yeah… what sounded like “just send a notification” turned into a whole system 😅

Didn’t expect this part to be this deep, but it’s actually pretty fun once you get into it.

Download Votap from the App Store if you want to follow along.

More tomorrow.