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9. Design Search Autocomplete
Return useful prefix suggestions quickly while refreshing rankings and removing unsafe entries.
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Ordered by design numberCompany tags are community-reported. Counts on cards show how many people reported that design.
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48. Design a Ticket Booking System like Ticketmaster
Hold seats with one conditional write, pay by authorize and capture, and put ten million fans in a fair waiting room without selling a seat twice.
ClassicMedium56. Design a Local Business Review Site like Yelp
Search 10 million businesses by place, words and category, keep every average rating exact, and keep fake reviews out.
ClassicMedium57. Design Post Search like Facebook
Search a billion posts a day by keyword, newest or most liked first, with an inverted index you build yourself.
ClassicMedium58. Design a Dating App like Tinder
Stacks of nearby people in under 300 ms, 2 billion swipes a day, and a match never missed even when both like at once.
ClassicMedium95. Design a Team Chat App like Slack
Design a team chat app like Slack: channels and DMs in real time, threads, unread counts and search. One-hour boards for junior, senior and staff, with the theory behind them.
ClassicMedium99. Design a Cross-Product Tagging System
One set of tags across Jira issues, Confluence pages and Bitbucket pull requests: batch renders, tag pages that never leak, suggestions, popular tags.
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