I’ve been working on Squash tournament tracker — https://squashon.com/

It’s a simple app for running squash tournaments with friends: create accounts, add friends, generate tournaments, play them, then hit Calculate ELO so ratings update with a standard ELO system. There’s a shared leaderboard so it stays competitive without a complicated flow.

I already run tournaments with my friends on it, so there’s a live global leaderboard - not an empty demo. The app is free; any feedback or questions are welcome if you want to try it.

How I run it

On the infra side, I put together a monitoring stack for this small public site from home:

• Hardware: Ubuntu on a Lenovo ThinkCentre M910q (i3-7100T, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD)
• Runtime: Everything in Docker (app, supporting services, Grafana, Prometheus, etc.)
• Exposure: The site is reachable through a Cloudflare Tunnel, so I’m not opening ports on my router

What I’m collecting

• Prometheus + Grafana for dashboards
• Loki for container logs; I parse JSON lines in Grafana for traffic (popular paths, usage patterns) and a few app-level signals
• cAdvisor for container metrics (CPU, uptime, etc.)
• node_exporter for host metrics (CPU/RAM/disk, temps, uptime)

What I use monitoring for

I use it to see how the host behaves under real load, which routes get the most traffic, and which paths look bot-heavy. I block those requests early in middleware so they don’t burn CPU or skew the numbers.

I put together a monitoring stack for a small public website I run from home.

What it runs on

• Ubuntu on a Lenovo ThinkCentre M910q (i3-7100T, 8GB RAM, 256GB SSD)
• Everything is in Docker (app, supporting services, Grafana, Prometheus, etc.)
• The site is reachable through a Cloudflare Tunnel, so I’m not opening ports on my router.

What I’m collecting

• Prometheus + Grafana for dashboards
• Loki for container logs; I parse JSON lines in Grafana to understand traffic (popular paths, usage patterns) and a few app-level signals
• cAdvisor for container metrics (CPU, uptime, etc.)
• node_exporter for host metrics (CPU/RAM/disk, temps, uptime)

What I use it for

I use it to see how the host behaves under real load, which routes get the most traffic, and which paths look bot-heavy. I block those requests early in middleware so they do not burn CPU or skew the numbers.

If anyone wants the app link, I can drop it in the comments; I’m not trying to self-promote. It’s a Next.js app for managing squash tournaments.

Squash tournament tracker

https://squashon.com/

A simple squash tournament tracker for playing with friends.

How it works

• Create accounts and add each other as friends
• Generate tournaments and play them together

After the tournament

• Tap Calculate ELO
• Ratings update with a standard ELO system
• Check the shared leaderboard for rankings

The idea was to keep the flow simple while still feeling competitive.

I already run tournaments with my friends on it, so there is a live global leaderboard, not an empty demo.

Any feedback or questions are welcome if you want to try it, the app is free.