Lab Surprise is a game bundle micro-store built with just 2 Google Cloud Functions and Paddle API.
Get a surprise bundle of 3 VR apps from 19 games (the more you reveal, the lower your discount). 19 choose 3: that’s 969 different bundles, with an 4 discounts possible for each bundle
We couldn’t find any platform or store that would allow us to have the mix of games and the surprise elements we wanted to have (we searched!), so… I build it over the course of a month, testing and iterating with the group
I wrote this post expanding a bit on how it is set up to hopefully encourage others to try and build their own experimental stores. The main lesson: you don't need to set up a whole monolithic web app to try new ways to sell. A couple of cloud functions could be enough.
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Get a surprise bundle of 3 VR apps from 19 games (the more you reveal, the lower your discount). 19 choose 3: that’s 969 different bundles, with an 4 discounts possible for each bundle
VR Scout explain it nicely: https://vrscout.com/news/app-lab-bundle-major-quest-discount...
We couldn’t find any platform or store that would allow us to have the mix of games and the surprise elements we wanted to have (we searched!), so… I build it over the course of a month, testing and iterating with the group
https://juliendorra.medium.com/lab-surprise-building-a-game-...
I wrote this post expanding a bit on how it is set up to hopefully encourage others to try and build their own experimental stores. The main lesson: you don't need to set up a whole monolithic web app to try new ways to sell. A couple of cloud functions could be enough.