Leaderboard & Membership question

Please forgive any lack of my doing full ‘due diligence’ in researching some aspects of this question - but I’m feeling slightly overwhelmed and NOT yet willing to give up and dive into the world of wordpress plugins, although there are definitely a million of options re what I’m wanting to do.

Long story short, I’m wanting to monetize a (crazy) content idea by creating an opt-in membership that would allow guests not just to view daily content (they’re daily riddles) but to opt in to paid monthly membership option that would allow them to have first-of-day solves put them on a leaderboard. Non-members would still be able to see the daily riddles…I’m sure just via regular blog format…

Main Question: is the wix leaderboard option still basically a DIY build from database you create? (This is most recent answer I found (good video, just fairly involved) and maybe there’s a more updated solution?

Any other input anyone cares to add re how to enable paid subscribers to access leaderboard is more than appreciated, although probably a headache to answer, lol!

I made a video that shows how you can set up the pages for visitors, members and paying members to help differentiate and split things up.

As for the leaderboard, you might be able to use a repeater to display the information ; you could also automate some things if you have a bit of code knowledge. There’s this example from the Velo team on making a quiz too .