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Apps & platforms · own product · 2026
Hot Off The Press
A live-streamed prize draw where a real drum picks the winner on camera.
The story
Online prize draws often feel like a black box. Hot Off The Press sells £1 tickets for the next edition while the current one is drawn live on camera from a physical drum, digit by digit. Every ticket earns spins on a prize wheel, entry needs a skill question, and all money and odds are enforced by the server so the game can't be gamed.
The clever bit
The newspaper-meets-retro-TV design, with server-side randomness and a database trigger that refuses any wheel whose odds don't add up
What it does
- Buy tickets with live odds and a skill question
- Live room with a TV-style drum broadcast and countdown
- Prize wheel spins earned with every ticket
- Past draws archive with every number printed
- Operator admin area for editions and the wheel
- Free postal entry route
- For
- UK players of online prize competitions, and the operator running the draws
- Status
- Working build
- Works with
- Payments (stubbed in prototype) · Supabase
- Built with
- Next.js 16 · React 19 · TypeScript · Tailwind CSS · Supabase (Postgres)
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