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Show HN: Click the button, a global realtime leaderboard clicker game (clickthebutton.lol)
2 points by jakedahn 529 days ago
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jakedahn 529 days ago
I made this as a silly learning project to dive into some of the real-time interestingness of Elixir.

It's using Phoenix LiveView, and the whole game state lives inside a GenServer

Realtime state is written to ETS and periodically (every 5s) flushed to disk.

It's running on fly.io

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code lives on github here: https://github.com/jakedahn/clickthebutton/blob/main/lib/cli...

and https://github.com/jakedahn/clickthebutton/blob/main/lib/cli...

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