The official Tamil Nadu election results sites were a mess, so Karthikeyan Gopal built his own with AI as his coding partner – then wrote up how.
On why he bothered…
I wanted to see if I could build a better results site than what exists (everything out there is ad-ridden, slow, and unusable on mobile).
He gave himself one rule 👇
The constraint: spend nothing. Zero hosting, zero domain, zero database.
A Python script on his laptop scraped all 234 official results pages every 2 minutes and pushed them to Cloudflare’s free tier. The global CDN served everyone. AI wrote the code; he decided what to ship.
Then counting day hit 👀
- 24,000 visitors
- 430,000 requests
- 24 countries
- $0 spent
He cut it close with the free-tier limit 🤯
My scraper used 997 writes that day. The free tier limit is 1,000. Three writes to spare.
Two days of work, plus 60+ tweaks pushed live as people requested features mid-count.
The playbook: find a timely event with slow, ugly official data – a local election, a sports bracket – and vibe-code a cleaner live tracker on free hosting. Monetize with ads or affiliate links once the traffic shows up 🔥
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