The Whip's landing page ("Count every vote. Own every race.") in a browser, with the draft room on a phone in front, on a dark stage with a gold glow.
The draft room on a phone: a Senate toss-up with a winner and a Moderate margin picked, adding up to 35 + 8 = +43, and 10 of 15 picks made.

Make a call

Senate raceLean
CandidateWinClose<5%Moderate5–10%Blowout>10%FavouriteUnderdog

★ · Upset win + margin =

The right winner pays the win points. Land the margin band too and you add the bonus. A wrong winner pays 0.

Scoring

The math of boldness.

Points scale with risk. Call the winner, then call the margin.

1 · Call the winner

7× A called toss-up pays seven times a safe seat.60 An upset in a safe seat is the biggest payout in the game. Toss-ups have no underdog.

2 · Call the margin

Land the band and add a bonus. The further your call sits from what the rating implies, the more it pays.

Close<5%Moderate5–10%Blowout>10%SafeLikelyLeanToss-upUpset

Your call + = pts

Election night standings● 369/445 called

Race called Waiting on the next call…

  1. 1Elena RuizChampion195
  2. 2Nora LindqvistChampion180
  3. 3Jules OkaforChampion155
  4. 4Ava SinclairChampion145
  5. 5you · Sam RiveraChampion120
  6. 6Marcus BellChampion115
A phone showing the champion moment: a trophy, "Primary night champion: You took the night", top of the board with 184 points.
The league page on desktop once every race is called: season champion banner, final standings with a tie at the top settled by the chamber call, the message board and the primary season leaderboard.
Election night standings on a phone in dark mode, 369 of 445 races called.
The same standings in light mode, with gold darkened to amber so it stays readable.
The draft room on desktop: Senate races with win points and margin bonuses on the left, the roster filling up on the right, projected max 273 points.

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The Whip

Intro

Most people are passive participants on election night. The Whip makes the 2026 US midterms something you can play with friends. You join a league, draft candidates across House, Senate and primary races, and call each winner and a margin: close, moderate or blowout. Then you watch an upset-weighted leaderboard move as real results come in.

Build

I did everything solo: product, design system, build and launch, with Claude Code doing the typing. The app runs on React and TypeScript across ten routes, and every screen is designed for its loading, empty, error and populated states on desktop and mobile. Mobile isn’t just reflowed. The draft room’s split view becomes a switch, and modals become bottom sheets. The race browser is a dense table rather than cards, because people use it to scan and compare.

Design

The Whip is non-partisan by design. Gold anchors the brand, so blue and red can only ever mean party. Light mode is re-derived rather than inverted, so the gold stays readable.

Scoring

Points scale with risk. A called toss-up is worth about seven times a safe seat, and upsets pay a bonus. Because the scoring is the product, 39 of the app’s 212 automated tests cover just the scoring engine.

Where Claude got it wrong

Participants in the mock rounds missed the chamber call tiebreaker, which had ended up tucked inside the roster card. Testing with those leagues helped me catch it before launch.

Launch

The Whip launched on October 14, 2026 at playthewhip.com, after testing with 26 users and two live leagues. Election night is the real test.

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