{"id":22,"date":"2026-08-11T09:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/creative-agency-blocks\/a-queue-app-for-forty-consoles\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T09:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T09:30:00","slug":"a-queue-app-for-forty-consoles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/creative-agency-blocks\/a-queue-app-for-forty-consoles\/","title":{"rendered":"A queue app for forty consoles and one whiteboard"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Arcade Club is a gaming lounge in downtown Oakland with forty consoles and a tournament every Friday. Until last year, the queue lived on a whiteboard by the door, and the most important skill in the building was guarding your place on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The club wanted an app. What they needed, it turned out, was the whiteboard in everyone&#8217;s pocket: the same list, the same order, and a nudge ten minutes before your turn so you could leave the bar in time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Small scope, on purpose<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>A live queue that holds your place wherever you are in the building.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>Group bookings, so four friends can claim one console without four accounts.<\/li>\n\n\n<li>A lock-screen tournament bracket on Fridays, updated as each match ends.<\/li>\n\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We built it in React Native and launched on iOS and Android in the same week. The whiteboard is still by the door, now with the app&#8217;s QR code on it, and the club&#8217;s own developer has shipped three updates since we handed it over.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arcade Club&#8217;s queue lived on a whiteboard by the door. We replaced it with an app that tells you ten minutes before your turn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[16,15],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-case-notes","tag-case-study","tag-mobile"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/creative-agency-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/creative-agency-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/creative-agency-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/creative-agency-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/creative-agency-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/creative-agency-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/creative-agency-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/creative-agency-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/creative-agency-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/colorlibhub.com\/creative-agency-blocks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}