Hello Bonkers!

I am NoCanHaz, the lead developer of MegaBonk.gg. I wanted to take a moment to share some insights about the site, its success, some updates/progress, and what we have planned for the future.

Site History & Milestones

I am a seasoned developer and the CTO of a marketing company. I spend my days (when not stuck in virtual meetings) building custom software for clients, creating websites, and optimizing existing brands. Most of my work relates in some way to SEO and increasing web traffic. Where is he going with this? When a friend asked for help on this project, I jumped at the opportunity thinking it would be a couple hours to fix some features and deploy it. I seriously underestimated the amount of things that had to be fixed, but I also really underestimated how INSANELY successful the site would be. I had no idea that the site would get so much traffic, and I am blown away by the support from the community.

Megabonk.gg has gone from a few users per day using it to having 10x that constantly online at any given time. Where's our traffic coming from? It all started with Yandex and somehow, Bing driving people here. Much appreciation to the Russians who got in early and absolutely are obsessed with the leaderboards. Once Google properly indexed the site, we really took off. Also sharing in discord servers and other places have made this a real grassroots success story. We did zero advertising/marketing. I don't think we even posted a link to the site on reddit, discord, or anywhere else. We just built it and hoped people would find it... and for the first time ever, they did! That's thanks to the community for sharing and using the site.

What Next? Monetization?

Thats a good question. You don't see any ads or affiliate links on here. Ads are annoying for everyone and kill the experience. Affiliate links to purchase the game would have been great, but its Steam and they don't have an affiliate program. So where does that leave us? Paying Vercel and Supabase out of pocket. Not cheap with the amount of traffic you guys are generating. We are looking into ways to monetize the site without ruining the experience. If you have any ideas, please let us know!

As for new features, use the contact form. Let us know what you want to see. How do you use the site right now? What annoys you? What would make it better? We want to hear from you!

Leaderboard Updates

We've maintained a fairly regular schedule for leaderboard updates. Its once per day ~ 12:00 UTC. This is still a manual process so it will vary and there's always transcription errors. We're also aware of the ledaderboard "schenanagins" and will be purging any scores deemed to be cheaty. A while ago we purged an entire week's scores due to rampant cheating since the scores affect the All Time Score list (which still needs some scores examined). Remember its just a game and the leaderboards are just for fun. We want to keep it that way. If you're hitting 100k+ scores, you're way ahead of most players.

Contact Form Updates

Unfortunately, the team member who was handling community outreach and relations has had a family emergency a few weeks back causing any contact form submissions to go unread. We apologize and have since added more contacts to the distribution list so if you find a bug, have a suggestion, or need to contact us, please do so via the Contact Page we will get back to you as soon as possible (for real this time).

Again, we are very sorry about this, but IRL happens.

NoCanHaz - Lead Developer, MegaBonk.gg