Guillaume Vergano
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Articles by Guillaume Vergano
New User in Tibet
Right now, we have users in 139 countries 🌎 Last week, an unexpected country joined the list. Over 800,000 people have already made a VAINKEURZ ranking – what we call a TopList 🏆 🥖🥖 I think we would've easily passed 10M if we hadn't made the mistake of being French-only for the first few years […]
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My most intense moments as an entrepreneur: Episode 1
🤜🤛 When work meets personal passion Yesterday, I shared my passion for Formula 1 and my impossible goal that one day, VAINKEURZ will sponsor a racing team 🦙 This year, through Olivier Jaquet, we were approached to energize and generate engagement during CANAL+ Group's Twitch show with our TopList concept […]
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Our Japan Expo 2025 Experience
We played TopLists with over 3,000 fans at Japan Expo 🥰 For our 3rd year at VAINKEURZ, we brought several concepts based on our ranking lists in head-to-head format 🆚 Here's what we offered over the 4 days: 🎤 A giant TopList of openings on the Také stage Over 800 spectators, 2nd biggest performance […]
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V2️⃣ is live 💜
We've been working on V2️⃣ for several months now. Two key issues forced us to overhaul the site: 🐢 The site was getting slower and slower Indeed, with the accumulation of data and VAINKEURZ's initial design, making TopLists was becoming pretty painful. Plus, certain functions weren't optimized to handle that much data and this caused […]
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Site Improvements
Over 3 weeks of maintenance 😵💫 Will the new features live up to the wait 😱? The main challenge for Adil and me (the two devs 👯♀️) was to modify the data structure and optimize queries to reduce site loading times, which were becoming problematic as we kept stuffing the database with all your TopLists 😜 […]
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Why this logo 🦙💜?
I'm exhausted… 😮💨 Not a single day goes by without someone stopping me in the street to ask about the meaning of the VAINKEURZ logo 😬 Apparently the combo Purple llama + star smile + cross-eyed stare – it intrigues people! Okay, now that the BS intro is done, I'll tell you everything and in a few lines, I promise, you'll be like: […]
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Thanks to the early adopters
From Silicon Valley to Starbucks benches, they're called the early adopters. Basically, they're the first users and this article is going to introduce them and give them the recognition they deserve. The first Twitch streams LuchiscoTV Apparently the very first to do TopLists live on TWITCH and DBZ at that, so huge, huge shoutout to you […]
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Why a blog?
Today is a special day for VAINKEURZ because we're launching a new tab in the menu: ☀️ BLOG
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