Refer-A-Friend (cross platform, with AWS Lambda serverless backend) - early preview

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Hi Unity Devs,

I am working on an asset to handle the referral codes for my apps across platform.

Currently its in alpha stage - available for you to check at Dropbox for free. I hope to get it uploaded to AssetStore in few days (and hence available there in early 2018).

The use case is simple - get you users to refer your apps to their family and friends. When new users enters a referral code and enters it within the app you can then grant some bonus to both new and old one. Either in-app currency bonus, some features unlock … you will know best whats valuable within your app.

To make it easy to roll out I decided to make the back-end server-less and learned a little bit on how to get things done with Amazon Lambda (part of Amazon AWS). With Amazon Lambda you just need a piece of Python code (JavaScript will do as well, but Python was easier for me) which you pastel into a web-form and you have a micro-service up and running. I will quite probably make a Google Cloud Plaform version as well as it is of no difference to the C# piece of my code where the backend runs.

I would love to hear your feedback - let me know what you think and if it works for you.

In the package I have provided you with some sample AWS links - they will be ok to handle test loads and the Python code will be released with my Asset Store package so you can get your own endpoints created.

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making user enter code is a big nono. If you can make it work without users requiring to enter code it would be great

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Thanks for your comment @witcher101 . I do know its a hurdle, hope the benefits in the app are good enough to make it work and user willing to use it.

I made my codes easy to memorize and spell (with one consonant followed by a vowel and a set of three digits) but still you do need to enter them by hand. I wonder what would you suggest as an alternative that will work across all platforms.

I played with Facebook Invites, Firebase Invites and none of them was good enough in my opinion.