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Topic
INFRA & SAAS
Source
r/ClaudeAI
Published
2026-05-12 22:08:19
Importance
★ 5/10 — radar 50
Built a Live Election Dashboard in 2 Days With `Claude` and Cloudflare’s Free Tier
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Built a Live Election Dashboard in 2 Days With `Claude` and Cloudflare’s Free Tier

A laptop scraper plus Cloudflare KV and CDN handled 430K requests without paid hosting, DB, or a domain. The useful takeaway is the architecture: push precomputed snapshots to the edge and keep the browser dumb when traffic spikes.

[ KEY POINTS ]
  1. The stack stayed extremely lean: a Python scraper pulled 234 result pages, merged them, and wrote snapshots to Cloudflare KV for global delivery.
  2. Traffic stress was real, not hypothetical: 24K visitors, 430K requests, 8.7 GB bandwidth, and 24 countries on election day.
  3. Write volume hit 997 in a day against a 1,000 free-tier limit, which shows this pattern works but has almost no headroom for more frequent refreshes.
  4. Feature velocity mattered as much as infra: requests like close races and counted percentage shipped in minutes, with 60+ commits during the live event.
Originalwww.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1tbges5/i_used_claude_to_build_a_live_election_dashboard/Read original →

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