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@Hippo_Tap Yeah, I notice that shit too. When you upload a video to X, the quality turns into straight-up dogshit, like max potato mode

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@Hippo_Tap Yo, keep cooking the game same vibe, I’m hyped af. Can we actually make money on it? Token listing coming?

[HippoTap @Hippo_Tap]

Four months ago I just wanted to understand how a real backend works. Not a course, not a tutorial, something alive I could break and fix. I ended up building a game instead of studying. Today I'm showing it openly for the first time.

It's HippoTap, a clicker game inside Telegram. I know how that sounds: another tap game. But from day one I had one rule. Build something with a real economy and an honest server, not an empty shell. Here is what came out of it.

The core is simple. You tap a hippo and coins come in. The part that makes you stay is what comes next. You spend coins building a Mine: 46 upgrade cards across six categories (crypto, social, jurisdictions, infrastructure, Web3, and a garage of cars). Every card pays passive income, even while you are offline. Level a card up and your hourly income grows. The classic loop of earn, reinvest, earn more, and it is hard to put down.

On top of that sit 10 leagues, from Bronze to Lord. Your league multiplies all of your income, from x1 to x4, and it is decided by how much you have earned in total. There is a daily Fortune Wheel: most slices drop coins, some give a rare skin, and one slice in a thousand pays the jackpot. Plus 50+ hippo skins, earned with coins, login streaks, or Telegram Stars.

Now the part I am most proud of, and it is the part nobody sees. I do not trust the client at all. Balance, taps, upgrades, purchases, all of it is calculated and verified by the server on FastAPI. The anti-cheat catches bots by rhythm: a real person is jittery, the timing wobbles, a script taps perfectly evenly. Tap too evenly and too fast and suspicion builds until you get banned. Payments are real Telegram Stars, confirmed server side too. I wanted a league spot to actually mean something instead of a number you can fake.

The last few weeks went into the look. I rewrote the loading screen, because the old coin flattened into a thin line as it turned and looked cheap, so now it is proper 3D with weight and a moving glint. I added the garage: you spend your earnings on cars from a Toyota to a Bugatti, each one a flex that also pays income. I reworked the interface so it stops looking like a template.

I am building all of this alone: code, balance, art, copy. Some of it is probably rough. That is exactly why I am going public. I will post the process, the updates, and the failures here, almost every day. If you have made games or just lost hours to a clicker, I could really use your outside eye.

Next up: a leaderboard, clans, and daily combos. Stick around, this gets interesting.

[HippoTap @Hippo_Tap]

Are there people who have their own application/website? Then answer my 3 questions. 1. How did you come to your project? 2. How many people are working on your project. 3. Is your project profitable?

[HippoTap @Hippo_Tap]

Hi 👋, if you have less than 1000 followers, write to the Hippo chat, I'll forget you.

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@Hippo_Tap Hippo

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@Hippo_Tap When will the game be released?

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@ThanthiTV Stay strong bro

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@yajnshri Source: trust me bro

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@sarang10x @IndiGo6E By any chance, are you aware of the number of cancellations in Chennai today

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@singhalgaurav2 @ari_maj May i know from which airport?

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@IndianGems_ Hatemonger

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@aaichnairport @IndiGo6E @MoCA_GoI @AAI_Official @Pib_MoCA Can you please update the list for today

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@VinojBJP டேய் black ticket...aims எங்க டா இருக்கு

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@IndiGo6E At least have the basic decency to upload the ACTUAL cancellations on your official page. Haven't had any updates there since the previous bogus one

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@RajuRasu04 @NanjilPSampath @Udhaystalin என்ன tvk bro.. நலமா

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@AriaadhiM43312 @NanjilPSampath @Udhaystalin என்ன பா tvk

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@VanathiBJP இதுல அய்யய்யோ வேற அம்மம்மா வேற... Bjp ல இருந்துட்டு பெண் பாதுகாப்ப பத்தி எல்லாம் பேச கூச்சமா இல்லையா

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@Anti_Congressi Lol this card has expired. Try something else aunty