• 

  WDYT? :)

• 

  Sometime there might be very funny combinations :D

The Best Thing in the World 🌍

A project story for the Reddit Apps Hackathon

This hackathon was my first experience building something for Reddit’s Applications platform, and it turned out to be a fascinating journey — especially in understanding how apps are distributed and used within Reddit itself.

🧠 The core idea behind my project is simple but powerful: everything in the world can be compared — from bicycles to the wind, from AI to anime.

That thought led to the creation of “The Best Thing in the World”, an interactive app where users are shown two random things and asked a single question: Which one is better?

Each choice is saved in a database, and the app generates a live ranking of the best things in the world based on everyone’s votes. What makes it even more fun is that any user can add new ideas, nominating their own contenders for the title of “the best thing.”

Of course, not everything went smoothly. During testing, I discovered that on iOS it wasn’t possible to open forms directly through a subreddit — only through a post. I plan to report this 🐞 on GitHub to help improve the developer experience for others. As a workaround, I moved this functionality into the app itself, handling content loading directly there.

I’m especially grateful to the Discord community, who kept the energy up throughout the hackathon and helped me discover the online mode in WebView — a feature that I immediately integrated. Thanks to that, users can jump straight into the experience the moment they open the app.

Regardless of the final results, I want to thank the organizers 🙌 for creating this event and building such an inspiring platform for developers.

This project is just the beginning — I’ll definitely be creating more apps for Reddit in the future 🚀

Built With

• devvit
• express.js
• react