Context
On October 24th 2024, Blizzard Entertainment the company behind World Of Warcraft announced they are selling a new in game mount for $90. The Trader’s Gilded Brutosaur.
While it’s not the first time mounts are purchasable for realy money, this mount is special as many view it pay to win because it allow to carry an auction house and a mail box, two very usefull in game features. It’s necessary to note a similar was purshasable back in Battle For Azeroth exention for in game currency, a small amount of player was able to get it as the amount of currency needed was enormous.
The announcement of this new mount and it’s price sparked a hugue community reaction, on the announcement post over 1100 people commented, a few moment prior a similar post announcing a more traditional mount bundle being sold on the store only have 37 comment as of today.
Goal
Seeing so much activity in the community around this subject, we decided to quickly bootstrap did-my-husband-buy-bruto.com it is a simple website that just check if a specific character in World Of Warcraft retail own the mount Brutosaur.
The whole website is a meme around knowing if “your husband” or anybody did or did not buy the Bruto mount. While it is a joke website it actually work.
Behind the first goal of making a funny website for the community, our goal was to generate traffic to funnel to our more elaborate and usefull website Wowchievement.
Tech stack
On the backend we rely on the Wowchievement API that fetch data from official Blizzard API. It’s developed in GO.
Frontend is done in React.
We use Github action to make docker images stored on dockerhub. Then we deploy it on our kubernetes cluster.
Future
Our bruto website does not really have a future, it was just a meme website to generate traffic to our main wowchievement website. We are not planning on improving it nor taking it down.