How we built and launched Gopherize.me
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Built and launched in roughly five hours, Gopherize.me runs a Go backend on Google App Engine with a JavaScript/jQuery frontend, composes avatars from layered PNGs stored in Google Cloud Storage, and groups parts by numbered folders so new art can be added without a database. It exposes a public API, serves 9,544 gophers so far and advertises about 173 billion combinations, and is already reused in Slack bots, games and merchandise — the service works and scales.
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