Generic models choked on 1.2B tokens and bled cash. A custom gaming API cut latency and generated native dialogue to turn a profit.
A six-person startup launched a native AI survival game on Discord that unexpectedly grew to 20 million players and 3 million gameplay hours in just three months.
The game's core mechanic required fresh AI generation for every interaction, consuming 1.2 billion tokens in the first month and making the project...
“Every round there is so much of the story being generated, both on the voice side of it and the text side so there is no opportunity for caching to save on costs. It’s also the fact that the outcomes are so fresh that makes people keep coming back and playing. They don’t expect what’s going to happen.”
Multiplayer backend and development tools for social and web-based games.
Sellers lost hours to manual research. AI agents now prioritize leads and draft briefs, cutting prep time by 80%.
Engineers manually correlated alerts across systems. AI agents now diagnose issues and suggest fixes, cutting recovery time by 35%.
Experts spent 15 minutes pulling data from scattered systems. Natural language prompts now generate detailed reports instantly.
Lab supply orders were handwritten in notebooks. Digital ordering now takes seconds, saving 30,000 hours for research annually.