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Rust BaseFinder

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Above: Map of rustbasefinder.com users over the last 60 days (At time of writing).

Rust BaseFinder is a site made in 2020, which serves as a forum to share, compare, and review base designs for a video game called Rust. Since its inception it has received over 1 million pageviews, 200 thousand users, and 2 thousand signups.

The site was built from the ground-up by me, using Django for the backend, SQLite for the database, and HTML, CSS and Bootstrap for the frontend. As a result, the site is relatively lightweight (before Google covers it in Adsense and Analytics scripts), and can be ran on a bottom-of-the-range DigitalOcean droplet.

Despite having very few updates in the 3+ years that it has existed, it still maintains consistent viewership at around 200 users per day. It has been very useful as a method to test various coding ideas, as the consistent viewership allows me to test the effectiveness of my ideas.