Following some research over what data might be most useful and interesting to Founders and Side hustlers I rewrote the back-end for Highjackar. Graphs showing subreddit comment volume highlighting hobbies and topics that are increasing in popularity are front and centre.
A key lesson learned from version 1 was the necessity to use a framework for your front end. Version 1 ended up being the product of too many patchwork css files which ended up being rendered as an absolute mess on large and widescreen devices. I chose grommet as my react framework which worked really well with what I was trying to do.