Let’s face it, going to the gym during COVID was not possible and doing exercises at home was boring. Enter the DeckOfCards application, a home fitness application built using MAUI, .NET, and Azure. It leverages a popular home workout routine combined with gamification. The presenter used this application to combat his bout with diabetes taking his A1C from 10.7 to 5.6 in just 8 weeks. His doctors said they didn’t expect see him again. Now they want to know his secret.

This is the story of how one was motivated to build an application for positive change. This application was built on and off over three years and finally came to realization. DeckOfCards is built using Visual Studio, .NET, MAUI, and Azure.

We will examine the architecture of the application, some of its features, and how we leverage MAUI, .NET, and Azure. We will discuss techniques for gamification to achieve results, approaches for monetization, and ways to perform, scale, and minimize costs on Azure.