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Show HN: I built a leaderboard for coffee lovers all around the world
I drink coffee every morning. One morning, an idea occurred to me:
what country drinks coffee the most?
Sure, you can read about that somewhere online, but that data is static.
I wanted to create a global leaderboard where people can track
their daily coffee intake.
The idea is simple: you drink coffee, track it, and the score
(how many mL you drank) gets added to the leaderboard.
The more you drink, the more your country climbs up the leaderboard.
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- charlestehio 3y agoCongratulations on creating a platform that combines fun and coffee together. How do you combat spam submissions, considering that anyone can click and submit multiple times, especially when anyone can have multiple cups of coffees at one point of time. I suppose you have some form of rate limit / throttling going on, but coming from experience it won’t be enough.
- kyrylo 3y agoYou’re right, I throttle submissions. Currently, you can submit up to five coffees per hour. After that, a health warning is shown, and the coffee intake doesn’t get recorded. That said, without accounts, it’s really challenging to verify coffee intake. I am not shooting for 100% accuracy. It’s just a fun side project. I try to encourage people to post their coffees so that there’s less incentive to cheat.