#11 Shane Harris (SideQuest) on the future of SideQuest and helping developers succeed Kosmos with a K

Shane Harris is the co-founder of SideQuest. SideQuest helps gamers find and install games and apps for the Oculus Quest that are not on the official Quest store. SideQuest is growing in popularity and as of today has over 280,000 monthly active users. Check out their Patreon to support them.

Some of the things we talked about:


How SideQuest got started
Solving the discovery problem on SideQuest
Oculus Quest store curation strategy
Making SideQuest work as a business
Fighting piracy
Finding the best ways to support developers
Next use cases for VR after gaming
Future iterations of the Quest and other VR headsets
Oculus' potential plans to support indie devs more
Importance of social presence in multiplayer VR games



At Kosmos School, we make nerdy VR games.