# Follow-up: 1 year of building a Crystal app for a client
**URL:** https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/follow-up-1-year-of-building-a-crystal-app-for-a-client/2954
**Category:** News
**Created:** [February 11, 2021, 11:27am UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/follow-up-1-year-of-building-a-crystal-app-for-a-client/2954 "2021-02-11T11:27:52Z")
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### Author:  [@anykeyh](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/u/anykeyh)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2021, 11:27am UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/follow-up-1-year-of-building-a-crystal-app-for-a-client/2954/1 "2021-02-11T11:27:52Z")
I took my courage as I’m not a really good writer, and wrote an article about a platform I’ve been developing for a customer last year:
> **[3 years of Crystal Lang programming: The good, the bad, the ugly](https://anykeyh.hashnode.dev/3-years-of-crystal-lang-programming-the-good-the-bad-the-ugly?guid=none&deviceId=6cf5163b-2d90-4762-9ee7-b3cea331cdcb)**
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> It's been more than three years since I've been hooked into Crystal Lang. For
> those who don't know, Crystal promises to be able to write high-level code,
> borrowing syntax from Ruby while adding strongly-typed yet inferred parameters
> and avoiding the...
Most of you guys are knowledgeable enough about the language, so my article might sound not very informative, but I’m targeting developers hesitant into using Crystal for their next gigs or next project.
I don’t dive deep into the specifics of the platform, but basically, it’s a backend made with Kemal + Clear ORM, frontend with MithrilJS, Bulma, and Typescript, and deployment on public cloud using Kubernetes. About 8~9 months of work, part-time, probably 750 hours of work from specification to deployment.
It was a challenging topic, a per-hour booking platform with many (too many…) business specifics and non-tech-savvy stakeholders.
They are very happy with the overall stability and reactivity of the platform ( in both case thanks to Crystal ;-) )
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### Author:  [@j8r](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/u/j8r)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2021, 4:55pm UTC](https://forum.crystal-lang.org/t/follow-up-1-year-of-building-a-crystal-app-for-a-client/2954/2 "2021-02-11T16:55:18Z")
Thank you! I liked that the article was very accessible, focused on both the practicality as a coder and the operational side - DevOps in a sense! It is quite uncommon 🙂