When you think of Quidditch, you probably picture soaring broomsticks, intense chases for the Golden Snitch, and a whole lot of wizardly fun. What you don’t picture is the part where players pull out their smartphones to log into an app—because even magical athletes need tech that works!

The sponsor badges added another dimension to this year’s hackathon, and why not dive right in directly and incorporate one of them to our solution! The various services offered by Link Mobility gave us several ideas and we immediately decided to create a proof of concept for one of the elements in our solution.

Given our solution, users are engaging with the app by creating their own teams, choosing quidditch players as well as other personalized features. In order to extend the personalized experience and uniqueness, we also wanted to test the possibility of adding a login page. The concept was quite simple, we wanted to utilize the Link Mobility SMS gateway in order to generate unique OTP codes. The uniqueness of the codes would we validated by using a Power Automate flow while also managing the values in our Dataverse database.

There are several features that we potentially will add as well using the SMS service by Link Mobility. However, as a start we created the simple proof of concept which is illustrated in the short video below: