In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about the tech stack they used to create the Syntax giveaway site for the Sentry + Syntax announcement week. What were the features of the site, how’d they generate proper codes, and how’d they stop developers from hacking the system?

Show Notes

• 00:07 How to do a giveaway and distribute it?
• 04:26 Building in the spirit of Syntax
• 05:44 The tech stack
• SvelteKit • Web development, streamlined

Prisma | Next-generation ORM for Node.js & TypeScript

Syntax × Sentry MMXXIII | Product Blog • Sentry

PlanetScale: The world’s most advanced database platform

My Places - Google My Maps

sveltekit-basic-auth/hooks.server.ts at main · ghostdevv/sveltekit-basic-auth

Voucherify: Free Random Codes Generator

09:48 Hosted on Vercel

Vercel

13:04 What are the features of the site?

19:10 Generating the codes properly

26:48 Releasing locked coupon codes

29:13 Client to server side connections

32:56 Stopping developers from gaming the giveaway

46:29 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

××× SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

• Scott: The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) - IMDb

Wes: The Strong National Museum of Play

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• Scott: Application Performance Monitoring & Error Tracking Software | Sentry

Wes: Wes Bos Tutorials

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