About CAM Hub

// Why it exists

Before CAM Hub, useful information about Catch a Monster was scattered across Discord threads, screenshot replies, and YouTube videos. There was no single place to compare pet stats side by side, no persistent tier list that survived the next channel purge, and no team builder where you could test a party against an element matchup before committing the slots in-game. Roblox is a great place to play, but it is not a great place to plan: its in-game UI cannot show you a sortable grid of 131 monsters, surface community consensus, or get indexed by Google so you can find an answer from a phone in the lobby.

CAM Hub fills that gap. It is the persistent, fast, search-engine-indexed reference layer the community did not have — built so a returning player or a brand-new one can land on a pet page, understand what it does, see how the community ranks it, and plan a team around it without joining five servers to ask.

// Who builds it

CAM Hub is built and maintained by Carlos Junior, a solo developer based in Portugal. The project started in early 2026 and has been the daily-driver since — design, frontend, database, deploys, incident response, every part of it. You can find Carlos on Twitter at @CarlosJuniordev or inside the CAM Hub Discord, where most day-to-day questions, bug reports, and feature suggestions land.

The data is a different story. Pet stats, builds, tier votes, and comments are community-driven — submitted, voted on, and discussed by the players who actually run the content. A curator role exists to validate stat submissions before they reach the wiki. The codebase, hosting, and on-call work, however, are maintained by one person.

// How CAM Hub is funded

CAM Hub is free for everyone. Every feature described above — wiki, tier list, team builder, codes, server-hop — is accessible without paying. Optional Plus ($4.99/month) and Pro ($9.99/month) subscription tiers (billed through Polar.sh) raise daily quotas: more server hops per day, more saved team builds, and a cosmetic badge for users who want to support the project. There is also a one-off Ko-fi page for anyone who just wants to chip in.

Infrastructure runs on Vercel for hosting and Supabase (EU-west region) for the database and authentication. The free tiers of both platforms cover the bulk of the bill; subscriptions and Ko-fi cover the rest as the site grows.

// How CAM Hub stays accurate

Pet stats are submitted by the community and validated by a curator role before they land on the public wiki, so a single fat-fingered upload cannot pollute the dataset. Game codes are tracked against the official LDS II Discord drops as they happen and marked as expired when they stop working — old codes stay on the page because players still search for them.

The tier list is driven by player votes with several anti-manipulation safeguards: one vote per pet per season, advisory-locked vote writes that prevent ballot-stuffing through race conditions, and bot-vote heuristics that quietly drop suspicious traffic. The list rotates per in-game season so a balance patch resets the slate cleanly.

On the engineering side, every deploy runs around 870 regression tests before it reaches production, plus a security gate, a schema check against the live database, and a Vercel preview pass. If a test fails or a critical migration is missing, the deploy is blocked — not retried into outage. The full incident history of the site, including post-mortems for every production issue, is maintained in the repository for accountability.

// Community & partners

CAM Hub partners with YouTubers, Twitch streamers, and TikTok creators who play Catch a Monster. The current partner list is visible in the site footer and on the community page; partnerships are unpaid — they are how players discover the site and how creators discover one another. The main hangout for both creators and players is the CAM Hub Discord, where new features are previewed, bugs are triaged, and community votes are discussed.

If you play the game, want to suggest a feature, want to report incorrect data, or want to chat about a pet build, the fastest way to reach the team is the CAM Hub Discord.