Surprise Me - a platform for creating quests in the form of personal mobile applications

    My name is Alexander Golovaty, I am 24 years old, since October 2014 we are working on a Surprise Me project with a team of 3 people . This is a service in which everyone can choose a finished one or create their own quest and send it to the hero of the occasion in the form of a personal mobile application. The quest can be used as a gift or as a way to custom greetings.

    The idea of ​​the service came not by chance. Every year I rack my brains over what an unusual gift to make to my loved ones and how I can surprise them. They say that the best gift is a handmade gift. And if this gift is a quest, which is also independently invented, then thanks for the best gift for any holiday cannot be avoided - it is tested in practice.

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    The idea of ​​the service is as follows: when registering, Surprise Me offers several quest scripts for various occasions (Birthday, March 8, and many other holidays) or you can create a quest with your own script. When setting up the quest script with the help of custom modules, each event can be associated with the time or place of the event. An event can be a puzzle task or just an audio series with the favorite tracks of the hero of the occasion, which he will listen to during the trip in the subway, while sending the audio series can be configured at the time when the person will go down to the subway.

    What are we doing now

    On February 14, we tested our idea by manually writing mobile applications with quest scripts for the focus group. Each of the clients participated in the creation of quest scripts. Everything went well and the second halves of the selected focus group were very satisfied and, most importantly, pleasantly surprised by such a gift from our customers.

    Now we are working on the development of a service that will help to create quests and send them in any convenient way (link via SMS, email, etc.) in the form of a mobile application. The launch of the platform with minimal functionality is planned for late summer.

    What do we want to do in the future

    In the future, we plan to make it possible to customize the personal design of each mobile application in three simple steps. We also want to develop an affiliate network that will allow, for example, ordering and paying for flowers in a flower shop located on the quest path, right on our service, which the seller will give to the hero of the occasion who has come to him. Of course, we plan to upgrade the service, come up with new events, develop new ready-made quest script templates. We also plan to implement events with augmented reality (scanning and identification of objects in the quest, animated content, and much more).

    PS Do not judge strictly the design of the application - it is still a prototype.

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