Hi Product Hunters,
My name is Adriaan, and I have been a developer for a while and always worked on different side-projects. Only recently, I started to delve into the whole Indie Makers scene, mindset and communities. I decided to learn about this movement as much as possible, and the best tips and advice I get is through fellow Indie Makers sharing about their experiences on Twitter.
I also noticed how hard it is (especially in the beginning) to know who to follow on Twitter. That is why I created IndieLeaders :) 💡
IndieLeaders is an (👾 arcade-inspired) Indie Maker Leaderboard. It is not about 'winning' or 'being on top', but about giving a stage to — and celebrating the Indie Makers (big or small) who are working hard to improve their indie game.
How does it work?
🕛 Every midnight (UTC) a cronjob runs and counts all the Indie Makers' Twitter followers.
📈 It calculates a daily 'percentage growth' based on the maker's Twitter followers.
⭐ The maker who has the highest 'percentage growth' becomes the Indie Maker of the day and gets promoted to the 'Wall of Fame'.
I decided to use 'percentage growth', so newer makers with fewer followers get a chance to become the day's maker.
I had a lot of fun creating this project since I always wanted to create an arcade-inspired UI. I hope you find it useful and like it too! Let me know in the comments if you have any questions or ideas on how to 🕹️ move this project forward. 🙏 Thank you for your time!
✌️ Peace,
Adriaan
@xianmingchen Thanks Damon and happy you like it! The winner of the day wins a place on the 'Wall of Fame'. Here, I show a card with a little growth graph. The 'Wall of Fame' will activate once we have 100 makers on the leaderboard. Hope we will reach this soon!
I just love the design of this :D
I think it's great that you went with percentage growth to give everybody a chance to "compete". It's also a great way to find new people to follow.
@sxsio Yeah, it has pretty unique design. But it's not the only thing, which you should care about, if you're developing a game. Some gave dev implementation processes are way to hard, bound to all the dev departments of a dev agency. You should pay attention to iLogos team ( here: https://www.ilogos.biz/ ), if you want to understand how should a great developing company look like. Just take a look at their portfolio and will understand everything.
This is cool. Signed up. Currently I have 0 followers on Twitter. What happens if I get one or more followers? Will I destroy the leaderboard (division by zero)?
@ruudniew Good question :) It shouldn't break things and, if I am correct, it should start calculating percentage growth from a minimum of one follower. But have to check to make sure 😅
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