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Life & fun · November 11, 2024

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Lead.dev – The Startup Competition for Devs

hey hn, I made & launched lead.dev - a free, gamified way of launching your startup. Get feedback, find new users & compete on the daily, weekly, monthly & all time MRR leaderboards. Example profile: lead.dev/lewis Stack: - nextjs 15 (w/ partial pre rendering + ssr) - shadcn UI components - v0/cursor - trigger.dev - authjs - prisms - vercel

Lead.dev – The Startup Competition for Devs launched on November 11, 2024 with 15 votes, #990 of 4,990 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches.

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Lead.dev is a free platform where developers can launch and promote their startups while competing against others. Users build their profiles, share their projects, receive feedback from the community, and track their monthly recurring revenue on daily, weekly, monthly, and all-time leaderboards. The platform gamifies the startup launch process, making it a competitive way for developers to find users and validate their ideas alongside other founders.

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