BossOrToss: We Weaponized Astro, React, and Poop Emojis to Judge Executives at Scale

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Warning: This app may cause excessive laughter, existential reflection, or mild HR incidents.

The Problem:
There are thousands of CEOs, CTOs, and other buzzword-laden acronyms out there. But how do we, the humble minions of the corporate ladder, hold them accountable? Reviews are gated. Glassdoor is boring. Twitter is chaos.

So we built BossOrToss.wtf — a voting platform where users can anonymously decide if an executive is a visionary Boss or a walking red flag Toss. And we made it with real tech, not just memes.

💡 The Stack (AKA “Wait, this actually works?”)
🧑‍🚀 Astro: Because we love fast static builds… until we realize we want hydration on every component.

⚛️ React (inside Astro): For stateful chaos, game logic, and poop cannon animation.

💾 Supabase: Postgres, Auth, and Storage all-in-one. Used to store:

Executive profiles

Anonymous votes

Comments that range from hilarious to HR-flag-worthy

🎯 Netlify: Because deploying a poop-powered site on AWS felt too... enterprise.

🤖 Replicate AI + Google Vision: We cartoonified profile pictures and filtered out logos pretending to be people. Yes, we actually wrote logic to detect “this is probably not a face.”

🎮 Features That Probably Shouldn't Exist

💩 Toss Mode: Users can launch animated poop at executive headshots.

❤️ Boss Mode: Same thing, but hearts. Kinda like LinkedIn, if it were honest.

🧠 Sarcastimatic™ Bio Generator: AI-generated blurbs that make every profile sound like an extra from Office Space.

📈 Live Analytics Modal: Totally fake real-time charts to track “engagement.” It’s nonsense. But it moves.

🎉 Weekly Winners: We automatically crown a Top Boss and a Biggest Toss, every Monday. Because Monday wasn’t chaotic enough already.

🔧 But Wait, It’s Actually Engineered Properly™
Dynamic routing with slugs: Each exec has their own page — fast, statically rendered, and SEO-optimized with meta tags.

Client-side hydration only where needed: We surgically hydrate only the poop cannon and game logic, keeping everything else lean.

Email-based auth flow: Anonymous voting allowed, but if you want to leave a story about how your CFO once held a trust fall exercise with no catcher… you’ll need to verify your email.

💩 SVG-based poop trajectory: Don’t ask. 💩

🪄 Why We Did This
We wanted to prove that modern frameworks can scale even when your idea is utterly unhinged.

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