Coinz

Coinz started with an announcement on the AquaSolutions website in December 2021. I promised an economy bot with 15 minigames and a stock market. Over the next three years, I built it into a game with 1.35 million users and 16,000 daily active users at its peak.

Players could run businesses, hire other players, farm, trade stocks and cryptocurrencies or play games together. There were more than 15 minigames, including blackjack and poker. All of it lived inside the Discord servers where people already spent their time.

I built the first version in Python, moved to JavaScript and eventually rewrote it in TypeScript. As the game grew, I split the workload across servers and kept improving the infrastructure. I handled the game, the systems behind it and the work of getting it in front of more people.

At its peak, 16,000 people were active in a single day. Even after I stepped back from development, Coinz kept running and grew from 700,000 to 1.35 million users over the following year.

In early 2025, I closed Coinz to focus on Enkryptify. I'm still proud of what I built and the number of people who spent time playing it. Three years is a long time to work on one game, and I loved seeing how far I could take it.