Jeremy Foo: Gamifying A Marketplace

The idea of Dinomao originated from our search for an alternative way of bringing entertainment to people.

"DinoMao, founded by Jeremy Foo & Jacky Goh, A real-time app that streams and controls actual arcade machines"

As entrepreneurs, we are constantly looking for ways to create or execute things that is either more efficient or in this case, more fun. Along our journey of building DinoMao, we had also discovered new and different pin points that we could address to.

That was when our team realised that maybe we are onto something more then just Gaming and Entertainment.

Jeremy Foo, CEO of DinoMao, said, “let's try gamifying the marketplace.”

But how do we do that?
Simply bringing the arcade experience of entertainment with the bonus kick of receiving a product!

After studying the Taiwan and Japan
Claw machine arcade growth and trend, we discovered that people are paying for their fundamental experience and never the prize/goods.

This idea gave us a strong leverage on how to move and market goods without degrading the brand and at the same time, helping businesses get back some cash instead of simply disposing their merchandise.

Its amazing to see the range of products that are being placed within the claw machine that are up for catching. Some crazy Taiwanese claw games even go to the extend to place artificial "SHIT" into the machines and it sells.
Reenforcing the idea that "SHIT SELLS!".
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