Before partnering with AnyforSoft, XSPORT faced a significant challenge: their existing web platform was outdated, lacked flexibility, and could not keep pace with modern user expectations.

The main issues included:

• Limited ability to scale and add new features.
• No built-in live streaming support.
• A complex and outdated CMS that slowed down content publishing.
• Lack of personalization options for sports fans.

At the same time, the company aimed to expand its digital presence and offer a richer, more engaging experience for sports fans. To achieve this, they needed a partner capable of delivering not just a redesign, but a robust, scalable platform that could grow and evolve with their audience.

AnyforSoft was brought in to design and develop a new sports media portal from the ground up. The team focused on creating a modern, user-friendly platform that would serve as both a hub for news and a gateway for live content.

Key steps included:

• Migration from Bitrix to Drupal, with a custom migration script that transferred thousands of articles while maintaining SEO structure.
• Integration with FlashScore, a third-party service that supplies real-time sports data.
• Implementation of a caching strategy to balance static and dynamically updated content.
• Multilingual functionality with automated translations to reach wider audiences.
• UI/UX redesign to improve navigation, readability, and user retention.

The project was built using Drupal, React, and Python, which allowed us to balance flexibility with performance. Drupal ensured strong content management capabilities, while React provided a smooth, interactive user experience on the front end. Python handled backend logic and integrations, setting the foundation for potential betting features in the future. The architecture ensured seamless delivery of real-time updates without page reloads.
Close collaboration with the client was essential throughout the process. By aligning with XSPORT’s business goals, we ensured the platform not only addressed current needs but also left room for innovation down the line.

Currently, the project is in maintenance mode with ongoing SEO optimization and support. The AnyforSoft team continues to enhance the platform and prepare it for new growth opportunities. But what has XSPORT already gained from cooperation with AnyforSoft? Key outcomes included:

• Improved audience engagement: fans spend more time on the platform thanks to smooth streaming and personalized content feeds.
• Lower bounce rates: a modern design and responsive performance keep users on the site longer.
• Preparedness for the future: the scalable architecture makes it possible to add betting or other monetization options without major redevelopment.

The revival mission was enormous. It was like bringing Master Chief, gaming’s most iconic super-soldier, back from cryo-sleep and preparing him for the biggest fight of his life.

This challenge had two distinct sides: revenue demands and technical reconstruction.

• Revenue generation under pressure. Game Informer needed to start generating income immediately for the new owner while rebuilding its subscriber base from zero.
• Technical reconstruction from the inherited codebase.  AnyforSoft worked with the existing codebase and partial database with no user data. It required complete platform reconstruction and complex system integrations from scratch.

Any misstep could damage a 28-year reputation built on trusted game reviews and industry coverage.

AnyforSoft addressed both challenge sides simultaneously. Business viability drove technical decisions.

• E-commerce foundation development. Digital subscriptions and print magazine sales worked with flexible billing options. Stripe integration made payment processing possible immediately, while MailerLite enabled subscriber communications.
• Enhanced user experience. Flipbook service supported seamless online magazine viewing for subscribers.
• Content monetization systems. Paywall functionality protects premium content while subscription management enables immediate revenue generation.

All systems were integrated through comprehensive back-end reconstruction, creating a complete commercial ecosystem designed for sustainable monetization and business success.

Level one accomplished. The dual-sided challenge was met with measurable business impact:

• Subscriber milestone reached. Starting from zero at relaunch, Game Informer now has 26,000 subscribers. The new milestone is to reach 30,000 by year’s end.
• Market positioning achieved. What makes Game Informer unique among gaming publications? The ability to serve both nostalgic print readers and modern digital audiences through integrated magazine formats.
• Technical performance delivered. When 5 million visitors hit the website at restart, the infrastructure held strong. This proved the system could handle major traffic spikes without breaking.

The collaboration continues to evolve. AnyforSoft’s team remains actively engaged, developing new website features focused on enhancing user experience and driving revenue growth for Game Informer’s ongoing success.

Responsiveness was key in collaboration with Game Informer. This approach is essential when working with media whose audience is highly involved and operates in an extremely dynamic industry.

• 24-hour feature delivery. When Game Informer needed promotional discount functionality for their end-of-summer campaign, the team implemented complete promo code systems within 24 hours.
• Real-time problem solving. The team quickly added pop-up windows to the homepage and integrated new features as business needs emerged during the relaunch phase.
• Adaptive development approach. When initial deployments revealed stability issues, the team immediately pivoted to focus on load balancing and performance optimization phases.

The collaboration built momentum through constant adaptation. Each gear shift and pivot point energized the team, proving that dynamic projects bring out everyone’s best work.

The news platform faced a critical scaling challenge. More traffic was essential for growth, which meant producing more high-quality content with strong SEO ranking potential.

AI automation seemed like the ideal solution as a cost-effective way to scale content production without expensive hiring.

However, the following obstacles stood in the team’s way:

• The lack of internal AI expertise. The company required external partnership to explore AI solutions.
• Budget-to-value mismatch with AI vendors. As the client explained: “A lot of the consultants were proposing very expensive services and a bigger initial project than we wanted. For some of the vendors, it was very expensive just to get a proof of concept.”

AnyforSoft approached these challenges with a mission of enhancement rather than replacement. 

This approach would:

• Preserve quality and brand standards. Maintain the editorial practices and content quality that defined Newser’s brand while unlocking new production capabilities.
• Achieve cost-efficient scaling. Implement AI step-by-step only where needed, rather than through expensive wholesale automation.

The AnyforSoft team approached the task in two waves. 

1. Custom prompting applied to Associated Press articles. The task was to generate summaries that editors could publish almost immediately, after a couple of tweaks. This approach appeared to be functional. However, produced content had the key flaw — it lacked the editorial voice and quality that readers expected. 

System redesign around AI-human collaboration. Instead creating finished articles, AI was used to generate first drafts from multiple news sources. Editors turned them into final publications after revision.

Custom interface features

We crafted the custom interface in which editors could benefit from controlled automation:

• Choose news sources
• Set requirements for drafts according to a number of criteria

This customization significantly improved the quality of AI-generated drafts.

Moreover, we grounded the capabilities for Newser readers’ experience personalization in the future by building a flexible architecture. The system switches between different language models to continuously test and improve output quality.

Strategic insight

This pivot from complete to intelligent automation revealed a crucial insight. AI works best as an editorial accelerator rather than a content creator. The most effective approach amplifies human expertise instead of replacing it.

As a growing news platform, KharkivToday needed a more modern and user-friendly website to keep up with audience expectations. While the existing platform functioned well, there was room for improvement in terms of design, content management, and multimedia capabilities.

The editorial team sought a more efficient publishing workflow, while users would benefit from a more intuitive reading experience.

Additionally, ensuring platform stability, security, and seamless integration with third-party services was essential for long-term growth.

To address these issues, AnyforSoft implemented a comprehensive platform upgrade by migrating to Drupal 8 and integrating Thunder CMS. The key improvements included:

• A fully redesigned UI/UX for intuitive navigation and enhanced user engagement
• Implementation of Thunder CMS for simplified content management and publishing workflow
• Mobile-friendly, responsive frontend and backend themes for seamless accessibility
• Advanced multimedia handling, allowing easy embedding of images, videos, and social media content
• Improved security and stability with the Drupal installation
• Integration with Google AMP for better content distribution
• Enhanced publishing tools, including a scheduling system for content planning

With these improvements, KharkivToday now operates on a more stable, secure, and user-friendly platform, ensuring a better experience for both readers and content creators.

Managing websites across multiple countries came with challenges in consistency, efficiency, and scalability.

Stage Entertainment’s regional websites operated independently, using different technologies and analytics, making management complex. Whenever a new show was announced, the team had to build a website from scratch, and each show had a different UI/UX, leading to inefficiencies.

A cohesive multisite platform was the only way to simplify and unify digital operations.

To address these challenges, AnyforSoft became a technical consulting partner, delivering a Drupal 8 multisite solution that brought all Stage Entertainment’s properties under one unified platform.

• Drupal 8 multisite implementation – Consolidated all regional websites into a single, scalable system.
• Centralized content management – Enabled streamlined workflows and content reuse across different websites.
• Customizable UI/UX components – Standardized design elements while allowing flexibility for local adaptations.
• Seamless migration process – Integrated diverse online properties while maintaining unique regional needs.
• Collaborative development approach – Regular on-site visits and close coordination with Stage Entertainment’s product team ensured smooth implementation.

By unifying all websites, Stage Entertainment gained a more scalable and efficient platform, improving collaboration across regions.

BizClik wanted to increase its brand awareness. However, its website wasn’t suitable for this: it was a simple business card-like site without much to offer. The team understood that to reach a wider audience, they needed a more advanced and user-friendly solution. Hence, they were looking for experienced software developers who could develop the site with their requirements in mind.

At some point, BizClik discovered AnyforSoft and chose us as its development partner.

The team asked us to develop a site according to their pre-made design template. The website had to be of high quality in terms of performance, SEO, and accessibility while providing a seamless user experience. That was our first major challenge.

However, once the website had been developed and handed over to the BizClik team, additional work arose.

Due to certain mistakes in the design mentioned above template, the website encountered serious performance errors. Also, the provided SSL certificates didn’t work properly after release, which required our immediate attention. Last but not least, BizClik needed to migrate the content from the old site to the new one (which was an additional scope of work).

So in total, we dealt with the following challenges:

• Develop a new website based on the pre-made template provided by BizClik.
• Migrate the content from the old website to the new one.
• Fix issues with SSL certificates.
• Fix performance errors caused by design mistakes.

As agreed, we developed a brand-new website based on the provided design template. Our team used Drupal 9 as the CMS for the website and built it with CSS and JavaScript (jQuery). Additionally, we used REST API to integrate the site with news aggregators.

To optimize it for search engines, we used various Drupal SEO modules along with manual SEO strategies. We optimized the website’s performance, managing to achieve the highest (green) score in Lighthouse for all the metrics.

Once we finished the development and handed the website over to the BizClik team, they encountered performance-related errors. After the site was filled with content, its performance slowed down significantly, damaging the user experience.

Our team investigated the issue and quickly found the culprit. As the website was (and still is) motion design-driven, it had plenty of animations. The problem was that the team used heavy GIF files (each file was from 20 to 40 megabytes in size), which slowed down the website significantly. We converted the GIFs into videos, and the problem was resolved.

We also fixed SSL certificates after release, ensuring a secure connection. In addition to that, we successfully migrated the content from the old website to the new one and made it compatible with the new environment.

As part of its ongoing efforts to expand reporting on Bitcoin to Eastern Europe and Central Asia, the company decided to establish a new bureau in Kyiv, Ukraine. Thus, it needed a Ukrainian version of the website.

Instead of simply translating the existing site, Bitcoin Magazine decided that it would be wiser to build a separate platform tailored specifically for the Ukrainian audience. So the company contacted us with a task to create a UI/UX design and develop the new site from scratch.

Bitcoin Magazine wanted the new website to be consistent with its parent version, yet it also had to have unique features to possess a distinct identity. Our main challenge was to design and develop the website in such a way as to keep consistency between the two websites while introducing something new. At the time, the client didn’t provide us with a complete list of requirements, which complicated the task.

To fully meet the client’s needs and requirements, we meticulously analyzed the US version of the magazine and used it as a foundation when building the new website. We decided to use the color scheme of the parent website to maintain visual consistency. At the same time, we introduced various new features to give the Ukrainian version of the magazine a distinct identity.

Taking the client’s request into account, we implemented an admin panel that was designed to be useful and user-friendly for a large number of content editors, with particular attention paid to the needs of those in the media sphere. Using Drupal technology, we developed the site from scratch, making it highly convenient for content moderation and scheduling. We also incorporated fundamental SEO configurations such as robots.txt, meta tags, sitemap, aliases, and redirects.

Today, the Ukrainian site’s functionality is on par with its US counterpart.

The client needed a comprehensive IT solution for his idea: creating a portal with a feed of the latest crypto news available in one click.

The key challenge was to combine several connected features: collect and categorize crypto articles from all over the web using the latest classification engine, allowing users to customize the feed according to their needs and preferences.

For implementation, it was necessary to simultaneously develop and launch a website with an easy, intuitive design and a cross-platform mobile application.

There were several core issues that required solvation:

– The need to process vast amounts of data from hundreds of sources;
– Displaying info to users in real-time mode;
– Implementing a feature of smart filtering of content;
– Enabling users to customize their preferences and settings.

The key to success lies in understanding how the portal works, both web and mobile.

To solve critical challenges and meet expectations, our developers created a complex architecture to ensure the product’s high performance, efficient request processing, and quick response.

The platform also has a lot of third-party integration, and this elegant and sophisticated solution was implemented to prevent the website or app failure in case some of them stop working correctly. While some services could not be available, the whole service will be operating as usual.