---
title: "How we recreated r/place with 10 lines of SQL"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/how-we-recreated-r-place-with-10-lines-of-sql-yv9ltjdwi
source_url: https://www.tinybird.co/blog-posts/how-we-recreated-r-place-with-10-lines-of-sql
type: article
source: "Tinybird"
published: 2022-07-07T14:56:57.484Z
updated: 2022-08-03T02:14:36.393Z
tags: ["general-programming", "sql", "tinybird"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 26
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# How we recreated r/place with 10 lines of SQL

**[Tinybird](https://daily.dev/sources/tinybird)** · 4 min read · 26 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

The 2022 r/place event was a social experiment where millions of users from across the internet vied for pixel dominance. In less than 45 minutes we used Tinybird and some Javascript to recreate the 2022 canvas, plus build a new canvas of our own. We recently shared 8 challenges building high-concurrency, low-latency data apps on massive-scale data.

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