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RE: ❓Steemit Quiz 2025 - Week 12
Hey @the-gorilla! 😃
I just launched a little something I’ve been building — it’s a lottery app on Steemit that’s fun, fair, and runs daily! 🎉
👉 App Link: Win with Steemit
I’ve sent you 1 STEEM as a gift so you can try it out! Let's see if luck is on your side today 🥂
I've given it a go - Good Luck with the project.
What's the house edge / payout percentage that you're working to?
Thanks! Attracting participants is the challenge to such new game.
After 100 stimulations house edge was below 10% because I'm increasing the Jackpot 10% if not win by anyone.
How was it, any ideas from your side?
The process was simple enough.
My main suggestion would be to implement KeyChain so that when I submit my numbers, I don't need to manually do the transfer from my wallet - it's done automatically.
I think that anything of this nature will be difficult to attract users. People are quite free with their votes because there isn't a feeling of paying something - but generally people are reluctant to transfer STEEM to enter games or lotteries, etc. xpilar will be able to give an idea about how much demand there is - he's tried a few similar ideas over the years.
I agree! integrating KeyChain could definitely improve the user experience. I will try to do that in future, I also believe it’s important to keep wallet transfers as an alternative, because granting access through extensions like KeyChain can feel intimidating to new users.
At the moment, I'm facing a few challenges with fetching transaction data reliably from Steemit. I’m using the method condenser_api.get_account_history, but it seems to work inconsistently sometimes it fetches, other times it doesn’t. I’m actively looking into more stable solutions for this. If you know any thing that can help me please let me know.
And yes, I do remember that xpilar ran a lottery a while back, but it had to be shut down due to low participation. For this project to be sustainable especially with the costs (hosting and backend infrastructure) I think I’ll need at least 100+ active participants per day. Otherwise my option also would be to shut this down 🤔
Have you tried any of steemchiller's APIs?
https://sds.steemworld.org/transfers_api
There should be something here that'll be easy to use and reliable. It won't broadcast but it's quicker than Steemit's APIs for retrieving data.
I'm not convinced there are that many engaged users on the platform, let alone enough to be willing to risk their STEEM on a lottery.
This API worked as a charm! Thank you so much for sharing the knowledge 💖