Show HN: I built a leaderboard for coffee lovers all around the world (coffeeworldrush.com)
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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[ 4.7 ms ] story [ 17.8 ms ] threadHow 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.
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.