Hi HN, I’m an indie developer, and I wanted to share a small experiment I built. The idea behind Pixel Wars was to see how far I could take a simple concept: le

Hi HN, I’m an indie developer, and I wanted to share a small experiment I built. The idea behind Pixel Wars was to see how far I could take a simple concept: letting users "buy" a pixel and assign it to a country. The platform tracks which countries have the most pixels, creating a sort of global leaderboard. The biggest challenge was designing the backend to efficiently handle millions of individual pixels and dynamically update the country rankings. I used FastAPI, and I learned a lot throughout the process. I’m curious to hear your thoughts: What do you think about gamification mechanics in small projects like this? Are there interesting ways to scale an idea like this or make it more engaging?