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Interactive problems, visual diagrams, and AI-powered feedback to help you build scalable systems.

STEP 01

Pick a problem

Filter real system-design questions asked at top tech companies by difficulty, company, and topic.

design a … rate limiter, news feed, chat
Design YouTubeHARD

A video sharing platform with uploads, streaming, and recommendations.

StreamingCDNStorage
Design UberMEDIUM

A ride-sharing service with real-time matching and location tracking.

Real-timeGeospatial
Design WhatsAppHARD

An end-to-end encrypted messaging platform at billions of messages a day.

MessagingE2E
Design TwitterMEDIUM

A social platform with timeline feeds, tweets, and trending topics.

FeedFanoutCache
Design a URL ShortenerEASY

A service that maps long URLs to short codes and redirects at scale.

HashingKV Store
Design DropboxMEDIUM

Cloud file storage and synchronization across multiple devices.

StorageSync
Design a Rate LimiterEASY

Throttle requests per client with a distributed token bucket.

AlgorithmsRedis
Design SlackHARD

Real-time team collaboration with channels, threads, and search.

Real-timeChannels
Design YouTubeHARD

A video sharing platform with uploads, streaming, and recommendations.

StreamingCDNStorage
Design UberMEDIUM

A ride-sharing service with real-time matching and location tracking.

Real-timeGeospatial
Design WhatsAppHARD

An end-to-end encrypted messaging platform at billions of messages a day.

MessagingE2E
Design TwitterMEDIUM

A social platform with timeline feeds, tweets, and trending topics.

FeedFanoutCache
Design a URL ShortenerEASY

A service that maps long URLs to short codes and redirects at scale.

HashingKV Store
Design DropboxMEDIUM

Cloud file storage and synchronization across multiple devices.

StorageSync
Design a Rate LimiterEASY

Throttle requests per client with a distributed token bucket.

AlgorithmsRedis
Design SlackHARD

Real-time team collaboration with channels, threads, and search.

Real-timeChannels
STEP 02

Design on the canvas

Drag real components like load balancers, caches, and databases, then connect them with clean orthogonal edges.

STEP 03

Get AI feedback

Submit for specific critique on availability, cost, and the write path, scored out of 100.

Critique my design
Your Journey

From zero to
interview-ready.

01
01

Learn the fundamentals

Master the building blocks: load balancing, caching, sharding, and message queues.

Load Balancer
Caching
Database
Message Queue
CDN
API Gateway
02
02

Solve easy problems

Warm up on URL shorteners, paste bins, and rate limiters. Learn tradeoffs without the complexity.

Design URL ShortenerEasy
Design Paste BinEasy
Design Rate LimiterEasy
03
03

Tackle hard problems

Take on YouTube, Uber, and WhatsApp. Handle billions of users and real-time, global systems.

Design YouTubeHard
Design UberHard
Design WhatsAppHard
Interview-ready
04
04

Ace your interview

Walk in confident. You have practiced real questions and acted on AI feedback every step.

0

Accepted

All test cases passed

Practice questions asked at

Google
Meta
Netflix
Apple
Uber
Stripe
Airbnb
Spotify
Google
Meta
Netflix
Apple
Uber
Stripe
Airbnb
Spotify
Google
Meta
Netflix
Apple
Uber
Stripe
Airbnb
Spotify
Dropbox
Cloudflare
PayPal
Shopify
Zoom
NVIDIA
SAP
Docker
Dropbox
Cloudflare
PayPal
Shopify
Zoom
NVIDIA
SAP
Docker
Dropbox
Cloudflare
PayPal
Shopify
Zoom
NVIDIA
SAP
Docker
The Difference

Stop guessing.
Start building.

Without LeetNode
Scattered notes across random docs and videos
Zero feedback on whether your design is actually good
No structure, just jumping between topics randomly
Guessing what interviewers actually look for
With LeetNode
Curated real-world problems with structured hints
AI critiques your design in real-time
Test cases score your architecture objectively
Visual canvas to build and iterate fast
Tier System

Every design
earns its tier.

Submit a design and the evaluator scores it across four pillars, then stamps it Bronze through Platinum. Chase Platinum on every problem.

Submission resultdesign-twitter
Correctness
96
Scalability
93
Reliability
92
Tradeoffs
95

Overall

0/100

Platinum

Interview-ready. Clear bottleneck analysis and well-argued tradeoffs end to end.

FAQ

Questions? Answered.

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