Show HN: Lab Surprise – A game bundle store built with just 2 cloud functions

Hi everybody!

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

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.