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lemonJSon Show HN: I built a gamified forum to help hackers fund each other

We use Flask and Python with Postgres, and for the payments we use Stripe. Basically everything is automated, apart from withdrawing your winnings. That part is still manual for now as we haven't had the time.

lemonJSon Show HN: I built a gamified forum to help hackers fund each other

We do hope that real progress will bring in more votes form other users.

It's early days, but we do plan on adding features that allow people to better communicate their progress.

lemonJSon Show HN: I built a gamified forum to help hackers fund each other

At the moment we're definitely looking at IndieHackers and ProductHunt, but also using Pioneer's tournament aspect.

We have some basic weekly challenges right now that help boost your score to incentivise community feedback (these are only be visible to users). Adding competitions is not something I'd thought about, but it's a fantastic idea.