Based Count is an international team of developers who specialize in creating community building experiences.

Based Count is a team of four stretching it across the globe. Time zone differences and language barriers are part of our day job.

• George Dikun is the creator of Based Count Bot. Also builds fantastic Kerbal Space Program controllers.
• Tristan Isham is the creator of basedcount.com, co-founder of Based Count.
• Tommaso Ornato is the creator of Flair Change Bot, core contributor to basedcount.com, Based Count Bot, and a developer of 3rd party tools for Lemmy.
• "Kira" is a Python wizard and works internally on optimizing our bots code and hosting Based Count Bot.

Working with r/PoliticalCompassMemes (PCM), we’ve designed a ranked leaderboard based on how users engage with each other and the community. Based Count Bot has become an integral part of this community’s culture, and rewards positive and collaborative communication without boxing in the culture of this unique subreddit.

Can you tell we like our name? Based Count is our user facing portal where people can track their community interactions, points (pills) and see what rewards they’ve been given by other members of the community. Written with Go and Svelte, the site is fast, responsive, and low-cost, making it an integral part of our strategy to foster healthy independent communities.

Flair Change Bot tracks and catalogues changes of user flairs on PCM, organizing them in a historical archive. It allows us and our users to profile and reconstruct people's political standings and biases over time.

Minerva is a data scraper and organizer monitoring all interactions on r/PoliticalCompassMemes. We use her to build our other projects, but she’s capable of so much more. We’ve developed a proprietary methodology for storing and ranking forum interactions all while keeping data access speeds high and storage needs low.

We believe in building communities around where they naturally form. We understand that no two committees are the same, and that one size fits all solutions fit no one. A big reason why we’ve started building our tools for PCM is the difficulty of tailoring for so many diverse mindsets. If we can succeed at bringing these people together we can succeed at building a better, more honest, and friendlier world.