Problem
BuyUp let gamers in Uzbekistan top up PUBG Mobile, Free Fire, Call of Duty and other games, and pay in local currency through local payment providers.
What I built
My first startup, as founder: the Flutter store, the Flutter admin app and the Django backend behind both. It grew out of an earlier game-payments app I had built.
Front · Flutter
- Game catalogue, multi-step checkout, an iOS in-app purchase screen, referrals, deep links and Google sign-in.
- An admin app with live sales charts for running the store day to day.
Behind · Servers
- Django 5 + DRF with JWT auth and PostgreSQL, tuned for the order tables.
- Redis caching and rate limiting on checkout, scheduled jobs and push notifications.
- CI with GitHub Actions.
Results
$40K+ in sales in a single year. My first startup, run from 2023 to 2025 and since taken off the store. It taught me how to run a product end to end: payments, support, and keeping a server alive.