GroguMaster

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   Show HN: A "roast my startup" space that won't shadowban you for self-promotion(medium.com)

   2 points by GroguMaster 2mo ago|2 comments
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   Peakd – Community rankings where companies can't buy their position(peakd.io)

   1 points by GroguMaster 2mo ago|0 comments
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   I built a community ranking platform for everything – would love brutal feedback(peakd.io)

   2 points by GroguMaster 2mo ago|0 comments
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   by GroguMaster 2mo ago

   You are right, the server handled connections fine. The issue was a single unindexed correlated subquery blocking the entire PostgreSQL connection pool for 13 minutes. We live and learn.
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   by GroguMaster 2mo ago

   Thank you!
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   by GroguMaster 2mo ago

   Solid feedback, thank you. Hiding the low vote counts now as you are right that they undermine trust at this stage. Appreciate the domain note but we are committed to peakd.io at this point. Good luck to you too.
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   by GroguMaster 2mo ago

   Fair point on the server being undersized. Stack is actually just Node
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   by GroguMaster 2mo ago

   Fair point on the contrast, just fixed it. Thanks for flagging.
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   "How 500 HN users crashed my 2GB server in 60 seconds – postmortem(dev.to)

   10 points by GroguMaster 2mo ago|6 comments
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    by GroguMaster 2mo ago

    Not a bug but I understand why it looked like one. We just switched to Bayesian scoring to prevent low vote entities gaming the rankings. Your vote is counted, it just takes more votes for the displayed score to diverge from the baseline. U
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    by GroguMaster 2mo ago

    Rankings are trust-weighted — account age, voting consistency, and cluster detection make ballot-stuffing impractical. Companies pay for analytics and visibility, not influence over scores.
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    by GroguMaster 2mo ago

    Thanks! Business model is already live — companies can claim their page (£99/mo for analytics, respond to reviews, manage their listing) and buy promoted placements that are clearly labelled as sponsored. Rankings themselves can never
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    by GroguMaster 2mo ago

    We have rank change notifications, personalised feeds based on your interests, and weekly digests already — signing up unlocks all of that. Glad it peaked your interest.
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    by GroguMaster 2mo ago

    Bayesian averaging is live
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    by GroguMaster 2mo ago

    Good point — implementing Bayesian averaging so low vote entities don't dominate the leaderboard. Cheers
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    by GroguMaster 2mo ago

    Ha, fair catch. That's from testing during development and shouldn't be ranking. Removing it now.
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    by GroguMaster 2mo ago

    Already working on it.
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    by GroguMaster 2mo ago

    ood point — we're in the early cold-start phase. Working on a quick-vote mechanic (pick A vs B) to drive volume fast. Appreciate the feedback.
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    by GroguMaster 2mo ago

    Good eye — done!
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    by GroguMaster 2mo ago

    Thanks for the feedback. We had a caching issue that's now fixed. Should be fast now if you want to give it another try.
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    I've been building this alone for months. Roast it before I lose any more time(peakd.io)

    15 points by GroguMaster 2mo ago|34 comments