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Show Me a Leaderboard
Use friendly competition to build and strengthen community
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Use friendly competition to build and strengthen community
304 followers
Show Me a Leaderboard helps companies, nonprofits and friend groups easily launch friendly (or intense!) competitions, with custom leaderboards, badges, forums, and notifications.
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I started a micro-niche competition website for my friend-group and over the past 6 months it has slowly grown to be a very vibrant community. This was surprising to me!
I now frequently find myself saying "Show me a leaderboard and I will show you an unreasonable amount of time trying to get to the top of it", based on the lengths I saw people go to win my 2025 contest (hence the name). People really love internet points, even more so against their friends! Show Me A Leaderboard allows anyone to host a competition, and gives you the tools to make it fun.
There is not a ton of technical sophistication here, and most PH users can easily vibecode something like this very quickly, so feel free to do that! Our pricing of $5/year (per competition) is reflective of that.
As an example, I made this contest, where you can compete to see who can leave the most comments on PH during launch day :)
@catt_marroll Kudos on the launch, one que: have you seen any unexpected group types like remote teams or hobby clubs turn into the most obsessed leaderboard chasers?
@catt_marrollCongrats on the launch!! What happens if two people tie for first place or someone quits halfway? Does the leaderboard update smoothly?
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I want this for my family. Are there rewards ? How do you confirm stats? ie can participants share proof of what they did
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@junetic there is an image type
you can add to your form!
So let’s say you want to keep track of who makes the most muffins, you can require an image for the entry. Then the feed would show lovely images of muffins :)
Happy to help you set it up if you start the contest in the app and ping me!
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@curiouskitty This strictly falls on the moderators of the contests themselves. I give contest admin tools to remove entries, makes edits, etc. In generally these are meant to be friendly competitions that are self policed. That said, we have rich input types on the forms -- so if you wanted everyone to upload a photo of their receipt for your 'who is the best super coupon-er' contest, you can do that.
@curiouskitty @catt_marroll This is fun. Leaderboards instantly make anything more engaging.
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@curiouskitty @artem_baygot totally agree! PH itself also seems to agree :)
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@leah_dyke good q! There is no public directory right now, but maybe if there was pull for that I would add it.
In generally I think of these as like micro social media sites for your {friends | coworkers | whatever} and so at a minimum I would want a way to keep them private if someone wanted.
You could always make a contest and put a public link to it in a billboard!
How are you keeping engagement going over time, especially once the novelty of the leaderboard wears off?
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@becky_gaskell that’s up to you :) if you host a really fun contest for your friends they will be engaged. But you know them better than me!
Really I just want to empower you to make a fun place for your community. We have email notifications that event admins can send to their contestants as well.
@catt_marroll That makes sense, giving people the tools and letting them shape it themselves is probably the right approach. The email notifications sound useful too for keeping things active.
this is interesting — leaderboards can either be really motivating or really discouraging depending on how they're set up. do you have any mechanics to keep it fun for people who aren't at the top? like personal bests or smaller group boards? i've seen communities where the leaderboard kills engagement for everyone except the top 3.
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@keith_hiyamojo your leaderboard formula could simple be, whoever has done { } most recently is in the lead. So not all contests necessarily have to be hard to go from last to first.
Beyond that, on my most successful contest we have badges for various tiers of achievement. I.e you got over this bar. We also give people irl stickers based on the tier they got to over the year. I think that helps make it fun either way.
@catt_marroll the tiered badges are smart... so people are chasing their own milestone rather than competing against each other directly? seems way more sustainable for long-term engagement. out of curiosity, do you find people care more about moving up a tier or about the physical sticker reward?
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@keith_hiyamojo depends on how good the stickers are i guess :)
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Me and my friends are pretty competitive in like the most stupid things.
One thing though, I'm missing a preview of what it would look like on the website. Atleast I can't find it.
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@rob_vb oops yeah my assets are pretty slim on this launch:
here is a screen shot of a test competition i made for today!
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@catt_marroll looking good!