Hey 👋 - Swapratim here.

Happy Saturday to 353 motivated XR enthusiasts.

Here's one short tip on how to grow your AR online business.

Today's issue will take about 3 minutes to read. 

Enjoy 👇

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In order to run a high-growth business, you'll eventually need to invest in some software.

If you're anything like me, finding the best tools to do exactly what you need can be time-consuming, frustrating and expensive.

Here are 5 of my favorite tools I find absolutely useful to use on a daily basis.

They can help you to reduce effort and increase productivity for online business.

1. Do magic with 3D models: Blender

I am using Blender since more than 2 years now for 3D model editing and I absolutely love it. The amount of features it provides for 3D artists is just mindblowing. It is the Adobe photoshop in 3D world.

Being a master in Blender can definitely take some time but once you reach there, you can enjoy the smooth experience while creating a new 3D experience for your customer. I'd absolutely recommend it for you.

Price: $0/month

2. Buy and Edit 3D models within minutes: Sketchfab 

To be very frank, the cost of building a 3D model everytime you need it quite high.

Whenever I need a generic 3D model, I go to Sketchfab - apparently this 3D marketplace has more than three million 3D models. You can buy lots of high quality 3D models with quite cheap price. Even you can customize them later.

Bonus: Sketchfab also provides a great way to resize 3D model for your WebAR.

Price $0/month  (purchase of 3D model separate)

3. Cloud Hosting Editor: Glitch 

Most WebAR applications, especially if written in Three.js/Aframe/AR.js has a limitation. They need to be run with HTTPS - in order to work properly.

This means you simply cannot run them in your development server. You need to arrange for Ngrok or simiar tunneling software which is a hassle by itself.

Instead, you can quickly create a HTTPS application in Glitch and host it in the cloud. I love this platform for doing sandbox experimentation. The WebAR HTML code can be easily edited here for a quick result.

Only downside: it is not ready for production usage in case you sell WebAR to customers.

Price: $8/month

4. Best HTML/Text editor for multipurpose: Submlime Text 

Although WebAR takes only few lines of HTML code, but keeping track of tags closure and errors is often a headache. The app can throw error - a waste of time.

Sublime Text is a wonderful text/code editor. I prefer to use it as a HTML code editor. I use it to store my notes and information there too.

Quick comparison between huge notes to identify a single word difference is a few seconds job. Once I have started using it - I couldn't stop using it everyday.

Price: $99

5. Mass production of WebAR apps: Marvin XR 

Creating WebAR apps in mass scale needs a systematic appraoch. For mass delivery, I prefer sit and create all WebAR experience at once - without struggling so much.

Marvin XR is my favorite tool to create even 20-30 WebAR apps within an hour when I'm in a zone. It gives me the freedom to store them all in one place, open to production with HTTPS, server auto-generated QR code and many other features included.

I can even get an overall overview of the performance of all of the WebAR campaigns, not related to Google Analytics (to be honest I hate the complex ways of Google Analytics integration with websites).

I'd recommend you to use it too.

Price: Starting from $0/month

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Swapratim