Building Kurast Trade

A deep dive into building a real-time marketplace with Convex and an Overwolf in-game overlay.

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Updated January 29, 2025

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Building kurast.trade Part 1: Real-Time Marketplace Patterns with Convex

Patterns for building real-time marketplaces with Convex that go beyond the docs: trade state machines, hash-based change detection, race condition mitigation, and strategic denormalization.

January 29, 2025 | 8 min read

#convex #real-time #marketplace

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Building kurast.trade Part 2: In-Game Overlay with Overwolf

What I learned building an Overwolf overlay: multi-window coordination, wrapping callback APIs, click-through bugs, and calculating game events locally.

January 29, 2025 | 8 min read

#overwolf #gaming #overlay