WAGUS — short for We’re All Gonna Use Solana — is a Solana-powered mobile platform that blends social chat, gaming, embedded crypto wallets, and business tools. Designed to accelerate mainstream adoption of crypto, the app aims to make decentralized finance and communication accessible and engaging for retail users.
Launched out of the Colosseum Hackathon, WAGUS has quickly grown across Android and iOS thanks to its Flutter implementation by building a loyal user base eager for updates, new features, and better UX.
For founder Michael Gallego, success means staying in sync with the ever-evolving Solana ecosystem.
Every two hours something could change. We have to respond in real time.
- Michael Gallego, WAGUS Founder
The Challenge
Before Shorebird, the WAGUS team faced the same problem every mobile app builder in the fast paced crypto world does: the App Store and Play Store release cycles just weren’t fast enough compared to how fast the rest of the market moves.
With users actively requesting features, and with the real-time nature of blockchain data, waiting days for a new release to be approved was a nonstarter.
On top of that, the app’s rapid development pace, often driven by AI-generated agents, meant that every day brought new code that needed testing, tweaking, and deployment.
The Shorebird Solution
Shorebird allowed WAGUS to completely rethink how they ship their mobile apps. By introducing code push, WAGUS could:
- Patch new features and bug fixes in real time
- Avoid app store delays
- Deliver continuous improvements without interrupting users
We patch fast. One release had 60 patches. Most of them are small quality-of-life updates requested by users. With Shorebird, we could ship them the same day.
- Michael Gallego, WAGUS Founder
To quickly get these changes into users’ hands, the WAGUS team also integrated the Shorebird Code Push package. This enables them to hook into the update flow and display a custom app notification, letting users know when a new version is ready to install. This simple addition has enabled faster and more frequent deployments.
A WAGUS app notification altering a user to an update that is ready to be
installed via Shorebird
The team found that Shorebird was easy to adopt thanks to its CLI-driven setup and clear documentation. They now use a three-branch flow (develop → patch → release) and run patches multiple times per week, sometimes within hours of a user request.
The Impact
With Shorebird, the WAGUS team has:
- Delivered 140,000+ lines of Dart code via patches
- Decreased user-requested feature turnaround to a matter of hours
- Created a custom in-app update experience with restart prompts
Their use of AI tools like Scout, Cline, and Conductor allows entire feature sets to be generated and shipped rapidly under the guidance of senior Flutter developers. Their expertise in application architecture and solid development principles enables fast iteration without sacrificing long-term scalability. Combined with Shorebird’s real-time deployment, WAGUS is now shipping mobile updates as fast, and sometimes even faster, than most web apps.
Looking Ahead
WAGUS is redefining how crypto apps get built and deployed and Shorebird is helping them do it. For teams building in fast-changing environments, Shorebird’s code push capabilities aren’t just helpful, they’re critical.
Shorebird lets us move at the speed of our users.
- Michael Gallego, WAGUS Founder
Follow their journey on X at @WAGUS_APP, where they share real-time build updates and engage with their user community.