OutbidLaunch Open Leaderboard v0.1

A simple, open-source leaderboard where anyone can buy a rank — the highest bid sits at the top, and your spot matches the amount you pay. Built on Astro + shadcn/ui, hosted on Cloudflare, with Stripe handling all payments.

Launch yours in under 5 mins (neither coding nor headache required)

Speed, security, or scaling — choose 3. To help achieve, that's why we're launching tomorrow a hosted managed option that needs no coding at all. It includes:

• 5-minute launch — simply easy, no coding
• Growth emails for you — automated bid notifications to keep people coming back
• Managed cloud — easy setup, easy management, less hassle
• Scale-ready — handles traffic spikes without new servers
• Edge security — traffic scanned and protected
• Fraud & bot checks — automated screening at the edge
• Free SSL — issued and renewed for you
• EU-friendly, privacy-first cloud — GDPR-safe, data kept in-region
• No npm chores — forget about update upkeep

Pssst... Want an early bird offer?

It's live now. Visit our website — you won't see this deal (or this sentence) in tomorrow's version.

What it does

• 4 pages: leaderboard + claim form, about, rules, and a live world map
• Live visitors show up in real time on the 3D world map (still being improved)
• Safe payments — Stripe handles them, so we never store your card
• Easy to rebrand — change the name, logo, and domain in one place
• Open source (MIT) — the whole core product is free to use

Why not code it from scratch?

We didn't just spin this up in a day. Hitting 17,233 lines of code took care of all the edge cases and setup needed for a working leaderboard, end to end:

So if you need an integration added, just ask and we'll build it. Why waste time, money, and AI tokens on something that's already done?

How ranking works

• Highest bid wins #1 — the board is sorted by price, biggest first.
• Tied bids — the newer one ranks higher.
• To take #1 you always pay at least $1 more than the current top bid.
• Empty board starts at $1.
• Moderation built-in

How it works, in plain terms

One codebase runs a single Cloudflare Worker. Astro serves the fast, static pages, while the live parts (leaderboard, claim form, visitor counts) run server-side or as small React islands for speed.

1. Claim — a visitor enters a URL or @handle and a bid. The site creates a Stripe payment page with that bid attached, then sends them to pay.
2. Confirm — Stripe sends back checkout.session.completed (verified with HMAC), and the listing is added, safely and idempotently.
3. Rank — the leaderboard JSON is cached for 30 seconds and refreshes right after a payment. The page checks for updates and swaps rows in place — no full reload.
4. Live — every visit is logged for fraud checks and sent to a Durable Object that keeps recent counts in memory, so live numbers stay fast.

Privacy: IPs and emails are never stored raw — only hashed (GDPR-safe). Links are checked at claim time; query params are stripped and chat or explicit links are blocked.

Tech stack at a glance

Host it yourself, step by step

Follow SETUP.md — a beginner-friendly walkthrough that takes you from a fresh clone to a working URL: create the database, set your domain and title, connect Stripe, build, and ship it.

Roadmap

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MIT licensed. See LICENSE. Contributions welcome — read CONTRIBUTING.md.