Survey Rewards Platform

0 → 40,000 users in 5 months

Built automated survey platform from manual WhatsApp groups. Referral rewards, instant mobile money payouts, and real-time analytics. 0 → 40,000 users in 5 months.

Industry
Consumer Tech / Rewards Platform
Team Size
Founding team + product specialists
Users Scale
40,000+ users during engagement
Project Timeline
5 months from concept to 40,000 users
The Problem

Before Automation

When Kaara.Works joined, the platform was running on manual processes that couldn't scale beyond a handful of WhatsApp groups. Every survey required manual form creation, link distribution, and reward processing.

Manual survey distribution - Each survey meant creating a new Google Form, copying links into WhatsApp groups manually, and managing responses across scattered spreadsheets. The process couldn't scale beyond a few hundred users.

Poor engagement mechanics - The one-winner-per-day model (500 currency units) meant 499 out of 500 participants left empty-handed. Users completed surveys but rarely returned, killing organic growth.

No data infrastructure - Survey responses lived in disconnected Google Forms with no centralized tracking, reporting, or analysis capability. The team was flying blind on user behavior.

Inefficient reward processing - Manual mobile money payouts took days or weeks to process. Users lost trust when promised rewards arrived late or not at all.

Here's how we fixed it

Kaara.Works built a complete survey-rewards platform using Google Workspace, WhatsApp Business API, BigQuery, and Looker Studio, affordable tools that could handle serious scale.

Automated Onboarding: When users fill the registration form with their phone number and referrer ID, the system automatically adds them to Google Sheets with a unique ID, adds them to WhatsApp broadcast distribution, and credits referrer accounts automatically.

One-Click Survey Distribution: Instead of manual form creation and link sharing, the WhatsApp client broadcasts surveys to thousands of users simultaneously. No copying, no pasting, no missed users.

Instant Reward System: Users earn rewards for every survey completed, not just one daily winner. The system triggers instant mobile money payouts automatically, eliminating manual processing delays.

Viral Referral Engine: The system detects referrer phone numbers and automatically credits accounts with reward points. Users became growth drivers, inviting friends to earn more.

Real-Time Analytics: All data flows to BigQuery and visualizes in Looker Studio dashboards. The team gained live visibility into user behavior, completion rates, and engagement patterns.

What Changed:

  • Before: Manual Google Forms, WhatsApp groups, 1 winner per day, no scalability, scattered data, days/weeks for manual mobile money processing
  • After: Automated platform, instant rewards for all users, referral engine, thousands of users managed seamlessly, real-time analytics, instant payouts
Tech Stack
Google Forms, Google Sheets, WhatsApp Business API, BigQuery, Looker Studio, Mobile Money Integration
Implementation
5 months from concept to 40,000 users
results

The Impact

0 → 40K users

0 → 40,000 users in 5 months. The platform scaled from zero to 40,000 users through automated distribution and viral referral mechanics. Growth that would have been impossible with manual processes.

5x engagement improvement

5x engagement improvement. Gamification mechanics and instant rewards (versus one daily winner) dramatically increased survey completion rates and user retention. Users returned because they earned every time.

Instant reward distribution

Instant mobile money payouts. Users received rewards immediately after completing surveys, eliminating the frustration of waiting days or weeks for manual processing. Trust and retention improved significantly.

Viral referral engine: Users became growth drivers, inviting friends to earn more rewards. The referral system automated credit assignment and tracking.



Real-time analytics: Live dashboards gave management instant visibility into platform performance, user behavior, and survey completion patterns. No more flying blind.



Zero manual distribution: What used to take hours of copying links into WhatsApp groups now happened automatically. The team could focus on survey quality, not logistics.

What they said

Under the Hood

This startup didn't need expensive enterprise software or months of custom development. They needed smart automation built around affordable tools they could manage themselves.



The system runs on their accounts, uses their existing infrastructure, and requires zero ongoing software fees. They own everything, they control everything, and their team learned to manage it independently.



That's the Kaara.Works approach: meet you where you are, automate what's slowing you down, and deliver measurable results fast.