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Competitive platform for music producers. Producers compete in timed 20-minute beat-making matches, all starting from the same melody file. The community votes, and an ELO system moves players across 12 rank tiers. Built with Next.js, with Discord integration that syncs ranks automatically. The hard part wasn't the interface. It was designing a ranking system that stays fair when the judges are the players themselves. The platform is live with an active player base.
A couple of additions that work well for self-judged platforms: give new players a provisional rating with a higher K-factor until they've played ~20 matches, so they climb to their real tier quickly instead of getting stuck low; and keep an eye on vote patterns — if a specific...
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Awesome, it looks great for this kind of product.
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Live site: https://yuriitarasov.framer.website/
Love it Yurii, great job!!
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We did too. It's the obvious center of gravity.
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What we noticed was that designing analytics before aesthetics made the whole product feel smarter. The visuals followed the data, not the other way around.
Does your music app know you as well as this one does?
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