Case Study: Thrive Global launches a fast, scalable digital platform with Very

Thrive Global launches a digital platform in 12 weeks with Very

Thrive Global, a company focused on well-being founded by Arianna Huffington, faced the challenge of building a robust digital platform combining editorial content and e-commerce within a strict 12-week deadline. Their CTO, Rajiv Pant, needed a development partner to tie these services into a single, cohesive experience and chose Very for software development services.

Very designed and engineered the platform using Ruby on Rails, integrating several key services: Shopify for e-commerce, the Medium API for editorial content, and Teachable for online learning courses. They also built a reusable framework for creating Alexa skills. The solution launched on time and successfully handled a massive influx of visitors. The resulting homepage loaded faster than 82% of tested sites, and Very delivered clean, maintainable code that Thrive's internal team could easily take over.

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