Megacool

Mobile SDK with Referrals, Recording & GIF Sharing

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Mobile SDK with Referrals, Recording & GIF Sharing

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Reduce user acquisition cost with Megacool! Megacool is a mobile SDK for game developers that lets their players capture GIF highlights to share with friends.

Launch tags:Web App•GIFs•Marketing

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Megacool

Maker

Thank you very much for hunting us, @nivo0o0! Hi everyone, I’m Nick, co-founder of Megacool! We have been working hard over the last two years to solve the toughest part of launching a mobile game: getting users! Before Megacool we worked as game developers at Dirtybit and couldn’t justify paying the high user acquisition cost to grow the user base: the LTV was too low. We had to think differently. Eventually, we found out how we could trigger our users do the marketing for us. Today Dirtybit has over 100M downloads of the Fun Run games. With Megacool we want to help other game studios to become successful with user-to-user marketing 🎉 In short, the Megacool SDK provides GIF capturing and sharing. Users simply capture and share engaging moments from your gameplay with their friends, including a link back to the game. Additionally on a dashboard you can: - Get full insight into shares, clicks, installs, re-engaged users, conversion rates and what sharing channels are the most powerful - See which GIFs generate most installs - Get a real-time view of shared GIFs GIF is a great format to present what your game is all about. It’s short, fun, autoplays on most platforms and much more transparent than a polished advertisement video. Most people have a very short attention span, so a 1–10 second GIF that automatically plays is a perfect fit for mobile devices 📱 We have focused on games since we know the space, but we would love to hear what other areas you would see it useful and any other feedback you may have!

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8yr ago

Katch

@nivo0o0 @nbroby our team at Dots was so impressed with the implementation and performance.

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8yr ago

Megacool

Maker

Thanks @paulbz!

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8yr ago

Chubble

This is super cool guys! What platforms do you support for sharing?

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8yr ago

Chubble

Sorry, I meant mega cool ;P

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8yr ago

Tana

Maker

Thank you @i3omar 🙌 Each platform behaves differently, thus we've created this overview: https://docs.megacool.co/channels

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8yr ago

Megacool

Maker

We're also very excited about ARKit apps😺 Being able to easily share what you experience on your screen with friends is something we believe will be a big part of AR. Just like all the #arkit examples out there https://twitter.com/madewithARKit

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8yr ago

Tana

Maker

We are working on a best practice guide on how to best implement the Megacool functionality. Any feedback is very welcome: https://medium.com/the-megacool-...

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8yr ago

The App Guy Podcast - 302 : Lucas Gordon of ProductRank

@aurorakb congrats on getting this out of beta! I still reference your earlier Medium write-up (https://medium.com/the-megacool-...) which is excellent. Cool to see you sharing your own story as well: https://medium.com/the-megacool-... 👏

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8yr ago

DTiQ

Wow! What an awesome Indie Game Marketing tool!

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8yr ago

Megacool

Maker

Thanks @n_clemmons! 🙌

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8yr ago

Look back

Nice service! Your sample snippets seem to be Unity C# -- do you also support other game engines? E g a game witten in SceneKit?

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8yr ago

Megacool

Maker

@nevyn Thanks! Yes, the core SDK is made in native iOS and Android, so SceneKit works like a charm too :)

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8yr ago

hardware_directory

Love the idea, such a smart solution for organic growth! A couple of questions: - Is the business model based on subscription or fee per install ? - Are you planning to release a desktop/console version later (in that case we'll need an integration @aurorakb :D) ? Or stay focused on mobile acquisition ? Gaming ecosystem is becoming huge 👊

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8yr ago

Tana

Maker

👋 @pierrebascoul! 1) The business model is based on shares. We have a promotion as well as an fixed indie price once the promotion is complete. Check out https://megacool.co/pricing for more info. Open to feedback as well! 2) It has been addressed by several people so it will be part of the discussion once we review all the feedback from the launch.

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8yr ago

hardware_directory

@aurorakb 1) Seems neat. Shares have already a great value. 2) Being a huge PC gamer, I'd love that! I know a French startup is working on a such solution: https://www.showdown.cc/

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8yr ago

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