How I Developed the Best Tier List Maker: My Experience

I know there are a number of tier lists out there, but it's really hard to find one where they don’t store my data, make it easy to share with just friends, and automatically search the item according to category and give recommendations with pictures of the best match.
To achieve this, I made many categories, each using a different API for different purposes—like the TMDB API for movies and TV shows.

I like making tier lists. Since I had trust issues with many tier list makers out there, and even if I found one, they used to charge money, I used Excel sheets to make my own list by adding movies there and taking screenshots of each movie every time.
Soon I found out about this Lovable.ai platform. I used it to make this tier list along with Google Auth API, Supabase, and another 8–10 APIs offered by various organizations.

Some of these APIs don’t require an API key—anyone can use them. Some require signing in to their account on some other platform (just why…), like making an account on Twitch or Steam. Also, all of them have rate limits, and a few of them can only be used for like 30 days.
If you guys find any alternative to SportsRadar and Spoonacular that doesn’t cost money, then please tell me.

To make things easy for anyone to make a similar tier list maker just for themselves and their friends, I’ll soon upload a GitHub repository with a step-by-step guide to add your own API key and Supabase key, and tell you what you can do to get similar results.
If you really want that repo, just tell me—I’ll speed up the process.

I’ve hosted this site on the Vercel app and used my own subdomain with a CNAME pointing to the site.
The overall cost of making it was ₹0. I already had bought a domain, ranjit.cc, and on Cloudflare, you can create multiple subdomains for free.
It took me around 30 AI prompts to get here, and I didn’t have many credits… so for this, I used the Get Credit Bonus feature from the Lovable site, where you have to invite others. I invited my family members with my referral and got credited.

You can check out this site at tierlist.ranjit.cc. Hope you like it!

My GitHub page: https://github.com/Ranjit-choudhary