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Broke college students built app that lets you save on food for playing League

RiotRiot Xhanghai·5/7/2016, 5:12:17 PM·97 votes·8,080 views
Grubquest

Hey Summoners,

Over the past year, we’ve built a web and mobile app called Grubquest. Grubquest sends you daily and weekly challenges for you to complete in-game (Play X Champion, Deal Y Damage) and rewards you with coupons for local restaurants in your area ($2-$5 off delivery and takeout).

As a team, we always felt that League, friends, and food were all connected, so we decided to build something facilitate that. We see it as a way to deepen your connection with the game and the friends you play it with. Our food rewards are valid in over 15,000 restaurants in 42 states in the U.S. Enter you address at EatStreet to see what local restaurants are participating for you.

To be clear, we don’t make any money off of this. For better or worse, we’re staying broke college students for the foreseeable future. I know there are a lot of skeptics out there, but we built this out of love for the game. It’s our way of giving back to the community.

We really hope you enjoy it. Feel free to leave any questions or comments below. If you’d prefer to keep your feedback private, feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected]

Happy Questing,

Team Grubquest

EDIT: As per requested, for clarification - Grubquest is currently USA only. We offer our rewards through Eatstreet.com and they're in 42 of 50 states. We'd love to expand to all of NA and other regions soon! Thanks for your feedback and support in the meantime!

80 Comments

sneezing slug5/7/2016, 7:26:53 PM9 votes

Can a Rioter pin this? This is absolutely one of the coolest things I've seen.

Bravo to you guys.

the Anarchit3cht5/7/2016, 5:25:25 PM8 votes

I'd be interested in something like this, but I can almost guarantee that no businesses in my town would agree or partner with this. My main question is, how do you get these coupons/discounts? Are they already in existence and you're merely providing them to people when they do the "quest?" If that's true whats to prevent people from just getting the coupons without the use of this program? If its not, how do you get businesses to agree with this, how do you procure these coupons for your users?

Zacster5/7/2016, 6:34:16 PM6 votes

People come out with the weirdest things when they're hungry.

The 2nd Horseman5/8/2016, 12:54:03 AM4 votes

I swear if it asks me to play Nami and do damage...

I better not get a coupon for sushi.

Oleandervine5/7/2016, 5:29:33 PM4 votes

This is a clever idea. You should expand into other markets. However, how do you link this to an account? That's the part that people are skeptical about.

Speedphoenix5/7/2016, 7:48:52 PM4 votes

I live in europe :'(

71883083DEL15/8/2016, 12:27:45 AM4 votes

Support, team grubquest!

jama6555/7/2016, 11:25:31 PM3 votes

i am soon to be a broke college student and i approve this app

Rundus15/8/2016, 1:17:35 AM3 votes

I am sad that only one place near me does this... but it does delivery and has pulled pork sandwiches... so i'm in. I'm just sad my windows Lumia 640 can't get the app. At least i can pin the site though.

Your Next Kill5/8/2016, 2:26:31 AM3 votes

Now I can play League of Legends AND get food from it! Thanks!

NewBlueWorld5/8/2016, 12:55:36 PM3 votes

OMG. I hope you read this Xhangai since I'm way down in the comments but what an impressive and awesome idea. I sadly can't enjoy it yet since I live in Canada but to see a team of people do something like that is inspiring. I really hope it catches on because it could help so many people. I definitely know the university loan struggle and yes, coupons and deals make a huge difference, especially for doing something you already do.

Anywho, great job and keep on rocking, it'd be sweet as someone posted earlier if a moderatior at RIot pinned this to the top of the boards so that everybody could benefit from it.

NickTDesigns5/7/2016, 9:49:21 PM3 votes

GENIUS

Rico Nasty5/8/2016, 2:13:47 AM2 votes

THIS COULD ACTUALLY HELP SO MANY PEOPLE HOLY FUCK SIGNAL BOOST SIGNAL BOOST SIGNAL BOOST

InivtesPreeze5/8/2016, 2:17:03 AM2 votes

Am I the only person who sees this as an ingenious method to data mine thousands of idiots' passwords, emails, and related league of legends information to steal accounts?

Arakadia5/8/2016, 8:04:50 PM2 votes

Broke, Resourceful, Brilliant college students built app that lets you save on food for playing League

Thats a better title!

AlsoJinxBot5/8/2016, 7:50:45 AM2 votes

Haven't used the App just yet, but I do wanna tell you guys that this is an amazing idea! I'll be recommending this to all my league friends. In the future, would there be any way to donate to you guys? I know this whole cause is about saving gamers some money, but i still do think you guys deserve some optional donation. on a side note, how much do you guys fork out for the website hosting along with anything additional to help further the development?

Camp Top5/8/2016, 8:25:56 PM2 votes

I'll start this post by saying that I am not affiliated with grubquest other than signing up for an account. For anyone wondering about security information, this is completely safe as far as I can tell. The code method they used to verify you with a rune page is actually something I've seen before. The website elophant does this I believe, and they are a service with achievements and similar things but it's more for your account stats. Anyway, cool idea! I can't wait to complete a quest

DarkDeamonDragon5/9/2016, 2:34:20 PM2 votes

This is an awesome idea. Too bad there aren't any restaurants in my area on eatstreet.

Samflash35/7/2016, 7:18:38 PM2 votes

How do you build an app? Starting out on it so looking for recommendations on reads

Lycanoon5/8/2016, 12:12:07 AM1 votes

I like this idea and concept...however... The demands on the app are a bit extensive... Maybe tie up some lose threads and knot up some of the Needs Access to (Google's commons): ?