How to implement top projects?

Question

Laravel

Such a task. There are projects... Projects should be displayed depending on the date of addition, i.e. orderBy, this is understandable. But how to get the position of the project in this case? Every time you output a project, do orderBy and take index? In the case of the output page of all projects, let's say it will work, but what if the user's projects are displayed? How to be?