AR · Design · Mobile App
Dropt
Part Groupon, part Pokémon GO — an augmented-reality app that turned everyday deals into a real-world treasure hunt you could see, collect, and cash in.
The brief
Make a deal
worth chasing.
Coupons are easy to ignore. Dropt set out to change that — to gamify the shopping experience and drive real foot traffic to local and national retailers. The idea: blend Groupon-style deals with Pokémon GO-style discovery, so saving money felt less like clipping a coupon and more like finding treasure.
We designed and built a mobile app that let brands drop digital offers into augmented reality at specific locations. Users scanned their surroundings, found offers floating in the world around them, collected them, and redeemed them in-store — turning concerts, campuses, and city blocks into a live deal-hunting playground.
See it in action
The deal hunt, live.
Dropt — augmented-reality deals demo.
The results
Three years in the wild.
- 10k+concurrent daily users
- 50k+users at peak
- 4.2★average user rating
- 3+ yrslive in market
How it works
Scan. Discover. Collect. Redeem.
- ScanPoint your phone and scan the world around you — at a concert, a campus, a storefront.
- DiscoverOffers from local and national brands appear floating in augmented reality nearby.
- CollectGrab the deals you want and stash them in your wallet — first come, first served.
- RedeemWalk into the partner location and cash in your offer. Real savings, real foot traffic.
What we built
A deal engine
with a game inside.
- Location-based AR offersBrands placed digital deals at precise real-world spots; users discovered and collected them in augmented reality.
- Redeem at partnersA redemption flow that connected collected offers to real transactions at local and national retailers.
- Scavenger-hunt modeEvent organizers could run branded AR scavenger hunts — perfect for concerts, sports, and campuses.
- Built in UnityA cross-platform AR build engineered to stay smooth and reliable as the audience scaled past 50,000.