Case Study: Sprintcrowd creates the world’s first live running app with Ably

How Sprintcrowd Created the World’s First Live Running App

Sprintcrowd, a startup creating a live running app, needed a highly performant and scalable realtime infrastructure to power its global platform. Their goal was to deliver a unique, gamified running experience with live tracking and leaderboards for up to a million users, but their small development team could not build this complex realtime core themselves. They required a dependable vendor, Ably, to provide a solution that would be the foundational component of their application.

By implementing Ably's realtime platform, Sprintcrowd gained a product-critical service that was easy to integrate and performed reliably at scale. This allowed them to successfully launch the world's first live running app, supporting 50,000 simultaneous events and saving an estimated $375,000 in self-build costs and operational expenses in their first year. The infrastructure provided by Ably was essential to their go-to-market strategy and is credited as the key differentiator for their successful platform.

Sprintcrowd

Victor Wigelius

Chief Executive Officer