CampusNotes
High-Traffic Academic Notes Platform — Google Indexed
Overview
CampusNotes is a production academic distribution platform serving university students with peer-verified study materials and PDF distribution. The platform is Google-indexed and ranks for targeted academic keywords like 'svvv notes' and 'campusnotes', driving organic traffic without any paid promotion.
Engineering Decisions
- Serves 127 verified signup users handling peak exam-season traffic with 8,077 total downloads (6,450 unique) across study materials.
- Google-indexed and organically ranking for academic search keywords including 'svvv notes' and 'campusnotes' — zero paid promotion.
- Architected a custom round-robin storage distribution algorithm across 3 Cloudinary accounts to bypass single-account free tier limits.
- Implemented direct signed client-side uploads, keeping backend workers stateless and eliminating upload proxy latency.
- Built upvote-weighted search algorithms to surface high-quality academic notes over low-quality submissions automatically.