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Rate Connections

A site where people praise or roast each day's four NYT Connections categories, seeded by AI so the page is never empty.

Features

  • Daily puzzle ingestion: Pulls today's categories from NYT Connections data
  • AI bootstrap: LLM rates each category 1-5 as initial seed data
  • Voting system: One vote per IP per puzzle, real-time average updates
  • Leaderboard: "Spiciest Days" ranked by highest overall scores
  • Mobile-friendly: Clean, responsive interface

Project Structure

├── backend/
│   ├── database/
│   │   ├── migrations.ts    # Database schema
│   │   └── queries.ts       # Database operations
│   ├── routes/
│   │   ├── api.ts          # API endpoints
│   │   └── static.ts       # Static file serving
│   └── index.ts            # Main Hono app
├── frontend/
│   ├── components/
│   ├── index.html
│   └── index.tsx
├── shared/
│   └── utils.ts            # Shared utilities
└── cron.ts                 # Daily data ingestion

Data Source

  • NYT Connections data: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Eyefyre/NYT-Connections-Answers/main/connections.json

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