Dubsmash in the beginning was simply downloading a JSON file from Amazon S3 containing the Quote metadata. This file was updated & uploaded to Amazon S3 by hand every time we had new content available; we would simply put in the URL to the sound file, the name of the Quote, and re-upload the file.

We chose this really simple mechanism to avoid having to bootstrap a custom API to distribute the content to the clients. This turned out to be a great business decision as well, since we didn’t need to worry at all about any scaling issues in the beginning; this became an even better call a couple weeks after the initial launch.

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