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.

• —The stack stayed extremely lean: a Python scraper pulled 234 result pages, merged them, and wrote snapshots to Cloudflare KV for global delivery.
• —Traffic stress was real, not hypothetical: 24K visitors, 430K requests, 8.7 GB bandwidth, and 24 countries on election day.
• —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.
• —Feature velocity mattered as much as infra: requests like close races and counted percentage shipped in minutes, with 60+ commits during the live event.