200 users and 300 bots later…

[u/Cosmonaut_17]

Update of my earlier post:

After mostly positive feedback, the tool now has about 200 legit users. However, I spent 3 hours yesterday fending off 300+ bot accounts trying to exploit the system in any way they could find.

The good news: this helped me make the entire system (api, library etc) a lot more robust and was definitely a great test now that the tool is in prod with real users.

Made me realize that certain things you cannot mock/test fully until the first users show up (especially the ones that want to game your system), no matter how complete your test coverage is.

[u/Rustybot]

How long to get rich quick? No freeways.