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Start with the services you need.
Choose from user accounts, data storage, progression, rewards, and more to build a backend that fits your app.
ACCELBYTE BEYOND GAMES
Built for games. Ready for your next app.
The moments that bring players back can work beyond games, too. Help people keep learning, find their community, and return for what is next with services built for online games and your application logic.
Build your app without starting from scratch.
AccelByte provides managed backend services for user accounts, data storage, progression, rewards, and more. Choose what your product needs so your team can focus on the features and experiences that make it unique.
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Focus on what makes your app unique.
Spend less time building and operating backend services, and more time creating the features your users value.
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Extend as your product evolves.
Add your own logic and workflows on top of managed services to support new features and changing needs.
FEATURED CUSTOMER STORY
Street sports meet in-app shopping
CityLegendsCommunity & lifestyle
CityLegends brings urban athletes together to discover spots, share skills, and compete. With AccelByte, the team added an in-app shop where community points become merchandise vouchers.
- AccelByte services used
- Virtual currency, wallets & storefront
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SOCIAL FITNESS & SPORT
Give people a reason to show up together.
Help people turn individual activity into a shared rhythm, with clubs, goals, and recognition that keep the next workout visible.
ACCELBYTE’S SERVICE USED:
Statistics + Leaderboards
Record validated activity and turn it into weekly, monthly, or seasonal standings.
Achievements + Rewards
Recognize personal milestones and grant benefits when configured conditions are met.
Guilds & Clans + Challenges
Create member-run clubs with roles, then give them goals that refresh on a schedule.
E-COMMERCE & STOREFRONT
Turn a good store visit into a reason to return.
Keep customer identity, offers, and loyalty moments connected to the storefront people already use.
ACCELBYTE’S SERVICE USED:
Identity & Access
Keep one customer account across properties, channels, or brands.
Store & Catalog + Entitlements
Configure digital offers and record which customers can access durable or consumable benefits.
Challenges + Rewards + Extend
Turn validated commerce events into configurable campaigns and benefit grants.
COMMUNITY & FANDOM
Give a community a place to gather.
Bring people into live rooms, keep conversations moving, and make it easy for members to find their people.
ACCELBYTE’S SERVICE USED:
Groups + Extend
Use groups and custom rules to help members find the right room or circle.
Session + Presence + Chat
Coordinate room membership, presence, and conversation while the community is live.
Cloud Save + Chat
Keep member preferences, room context, and follow-up notes associated with the right account.
Build with AI. Run on AccelByte.
Bring AccelByte into your AI coding workflow. Build on managed backend services, with your own app experience and business rules.
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Start with an app idea
Tabs advance every 10 seconds and pause during interaction.
01Describe your idea
“Create running clubs with a shared weekly goal and a leaderboard for verified runs.”
02AI maps features to AccelByte services
Each feature is paired with the AccelByte service that can support it:
Running clubs
Bring runners together.
Weekly goals
Track shared distance.
Rankings
Compare verified runs.
Your team defines the validation and weekly goal rules with Extend.
BUILD OR BUY?
More time for your product. Less work on the backend.
Building an app means deciding which capabilities to develop yourself and which services to rely on. Compare the development effort, flexibility, and ongoing maintenance each approach brings.
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Build it yourself
- Choose your architecture and technology.
- Build backend features to your requirements.
- Run and maintain the backend yourself.
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Build with AI tools
- Generate and iterate on your app quickly.
- Add features through code and integrations.
- Backend and hosting options vary by platform.
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Build on AccelByte
- Skip building core features like accounts, progression, and rewards.
- Run your custom logic with Extend without managing its hosting.
- Offload backend platform operations so your team can focus on your app.
The decision is rarely all or nothing. Keep your customer experience, business rules, and approved integrations close to your team; choose managed services where they remove repeat operational work.
FAQ
Start with the job. Choose the services as you learn.
These examples are deliberately small. A real architecture still needs a conversation about product boundaries, data, availability, and operations.
AGS provides managed building blocks for identity, groups, matching, sessions, progression, chat, and custom logic. Your team decides whether each service fits the product, region, data model, and operating requirements you have.
Your team owns the interface, content, product rules, customer support workflows, business integrations, and any regulated or domain-specific system that sits outside the shared foundation.
No. Begin with the smallest useful slice. For example, an app might start with identity and groups, then add matching, chat, or progression when the product has a reason to use them.
AI app builders can help create a prototype and accelerate interface work. AccelByte addresses a different layer: reusable online services and the operational foundation behind accounts, relationships, live coordination, and progression.
Yes. Map one customer moment to one service, validate the experience, and expand only when the next product problem is clear. Extend lets you add custom behavior where a managed service needs your rules.
Confirm service availability, hosting model, compatibility, data handling, limits, authentication, cost, and support expectations with your AccelByte team before you commit to a production architecture.
Ready to build what comes next?
Start with a small product moment. We can help map the foundation behind it.