redor.blue

A global social dilemma experiment. Every visitor makes one irreversible choice:

• Red majority → only those who chose red survive
• Blue majority → everyone survives

You can't communicate. You can't change your mind. One press. Forever.

Live at redor.blue

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How it works

User votes → POST /api/vote
  ├─ IP hashed (SHA-256 + salt) — raw IP never stored
  ├─ 24h dedup check via ip_log
  ├─ Vote inserted → get_results() RPC
  └─ Outcome derived client-side from current majority

/results polls GET /api/results every 5s
  └─ "survived" recalculated live — never persisted

See ARCHITECTURE.md for the full design rationale.

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Stack

Layer	Technology
Frontend	React 19 + TypeScript + Vite
Styling	Tailwind CSS v4
Animations	Framer Motion
Routing	React Router v7
i18n	i18next (12 languages + RTL)
Backend	Vercel Serverless Functions (/api)
Database	Supabase (PostgreSQL)
Deployment	Vercel

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Engineering highlights

• Privacy-preserving dedup — IPs are SHA-256 hashed with a salt before storage; no raw IPs ever touch the database. Votes are deduplicated via a 24h window on the hash.
• Stateless serverless design — each API function is fully self-contained; no shared in-memory state, no persistent process.
• Real-time results without WebSockets — results page polls /api/results every 5s with stale-while-revalidate cache headers; simple, reliable, zero infrastructure overhead.
• 12 languages + RTL — browser language auto-detection via i18next; Arabic triggers full RTL layout through Tailwind's rtl: variants.
• Outcome derived, not stored — "survived/eliminated" is computed from live vote totals on each poll so it always reflects the current majority, not the majority at vote time.

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Local dev

Prerequisites: Node.js (see .nvmrc), a Supabase project, Vercel CLI.

npm install

# Copy and fill in your Supabase credentials
cp .env.example .env.local

npx vercel dev     # frontend + API routes on http://localhost:3000

npm run dev runs Vite only (no API routes — votes will fail).

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Scripts

Command	Description
npm run dev	Vite dev server (frontend only)
npx vercel dev	Full stack with API routes
npm run build	TypeScript check + Vite build
npm run lint	ESLint
npm test	Vitest (single run)
npm run test:watch	Vitest watch mode

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Environment variables

Variable	Description
SUPABASE_URL	Your Supabase project URL
SUPABASE_SERVICE_KEY	Service role key (server-side only)
VITE_API_BASE	API base URL (empty for local dev)

Set these in .env.local for local development. On Vercel, set them via the dashboard or vercel env add.

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License

MIT