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Restaurant Discovery App

Lucky Meal
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Untapped foot traffic for restaurant owners

The concept of Lucky Meal is simple. One tap, get a random restaurant and meal deal in your area. This simple concept on the user's side is a total game changer for restaruant owners: Lucky Meal users don't look at fake reviews on Google, Tripadvisor or Yelp, they get the random result and try out the restaurant, they are even more inclined if the deal presented is good. This gives every restaurant owner an equal chance of being discovered, no need for ad spend or a restaurant location in a highly frequented area.

Gamifying the hospitality industry

Lucky Meal's brand and product is heavily gamified to appeal to younger audiences. It's a flashy product full of playful animations and interactions. Something that stands out and stays on top of people's minds.

animating the red panda in Aseprite, a pixel art editor

Going with a pixelart aesthetic was a no-brainer. We also needed to have a "face" of the product, we chose to go with a cute red panda chef. The random aspect of Lucky Meal is depicted via a gacha machine, a popular type of vending machine popular in Japan. In real life, Gacha machines spit out plastic balls that contain random items, in our case it's Lucky Meal restaurants and deals.

LuckyMeal's red panda chef mascot

indian cuisine

italian cuisine

chinese cuisine

sushi

random cuisine

A product built to be shared on Social Media

The goal of Lucky Meal is that people click the button view the animation, see "what the gacha machine gives them" and then feel forced to try out the restaurant. It's like a challenge. They share this entire expereince on social media and other people follow suit. We are working closely with local food influencers to bring the experience to the masses.

Gacha machine ball drop animation

Bringing UGC content creation to oldschool restaurants

Our marketing efforts for Lucky Meal and collaboration with local food influencers don't stop at Lucky Meal, we also offer an affiliate programme that connects restaurant owners with food influencers and helps them reach younger audiences without having to get too deep into the social media rabbithole themselves.

Lucky Meal's affiliate programme to connect with UGC creators

Tech Stack

Next.js is a React framework for building highly dynamic server-side rendered web applications
We used Next.js to get a high-performing landing page without compromising on the interactivity of the affiliate programme dashboard
Convex is a new kind of object-relational database that makes building realtime applications incredibly easy
Convex makes it incredibly easy to implement our realtime random outcomes and deal claim mechanics
Expo is a framework for building native mobile applications using React Native
Expo is our go-to framework for native mobile app development, using it here was a no-brainer, it makes us move fast + we can reuse components across web and the app
PostHog is a GDPR compliant open source products analytics platform
We use PostHog for app and web product analytics

Unique branding doesn't stop at the app

Our web landing page is meticulously crafted to have similar design elements and branding as the app without feeling obnoxius and hard to use.

Bouncy nav animation and subtle pixelart rainbow background

Whimsical entry animations and pixelart UI

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