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What are you guys building?

Paul on August 22, 2024

Easiest way to build an audience for a project is to share your project. Use this thread to tell us what you are building and kick-start your proje...
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Ben Halpern

We're going to have a wider announcement next week once everything is fully ready, but we have quietly put dev.to/++ live.

We have lined up partnerships — and will be adding many more — for more generous free and introductory tiers to services so individual devs don't have to break the bank just to kick off a side project.

We're also bundling it with some DEV upgrades that are mostly only feasible with a small additional cost incurred and the benefit of verification you get from a subscription.

Again, very new service, but anticipate a lot of value in this if you sign up for early-bird. 🐥

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Paul

This is really useful. Saw this on the sidebar yesterday.

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Ben Halpern

We want to keep adding value and make it an absolute no-brainer for everyone to sign up for. For some it's already there, but soon I think it'll be very clear across the board.

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heyeasley 🍓🥭

😋 Waiting for it. It's pretty innovant.

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Ava Nichols

🤯

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Hugo Duprez

Very cool extension!! Love the design.

I'm building a web-based game design editor. Think Figma, but for game devs :) Written in Svelte & Rust.

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Paul • Edited

Love this! Very cool project!

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Hugo Duprez

Thank ya :D

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Manuel Sanchez

Buahhh, love it! incredible, thanks for doing this!

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Hugo Duprez

Thanks, Manuel! :)

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Sindbad

Currently I'm working on a Amazon Price Tracker. It's a personal project. Essentially, I can submit amazon product links and my server will periodically scrape the product data.

Right now, I'm trying to get it done in any way. Because I've abandoned a lot of projects in the past.

For this first working version, I'm using node js, puppeteer and sqlite as the primary database as well as a queuing database. Here's the flow:

  1. Client add the product with API => server validates the product => saves in product table
  2. A cron job runs periodically, once a day, let says, and trigger a function that adds the products to a temp_queue table and after that, scraper function is invoked.
  3. Scraper is initialized, it's get the product from the temp_queue table and scrapes the product.
  4. After scraper get the data, it puts this newly fetched product info to history table in sqlite. And, removes/dequeue product from temp_queue table.
  5. The scraper runs until temp_queue table is empty.

I just want to get done the v1of this project. Right now, the code is awful and sqlite is a poor choice for queue, and my scraper is not very efficient, and amazon is good at detecting bots, so my scraper will fail if I may add more than 10-20 products. But for now, I'm okay with that.

Later on, I want to add notification feature. So when the product prices fall, I get notified.

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Saša M

If you want to try my data extraction / browser automation platform dex8.com contact me for free demo account.

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heyeasley 🍓🥭

Good.

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Milind Singh

I have built something very similar but serverless.
github.com/openwishlist/preview

Let me if we can collaborate

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Sindbad

@milindsingh Thanks for sharing.Your version is 💯 better and refined. I would like to collaborate, but I don't know where to start. We can discuss detail on twitter, sending you a request there.

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Milind Singh

You can connect me on telegram as well. t.me/adapttive

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Andrii • Edited

Not quite a product, more like a pet project, and hasn't worked recently, but maybe some feedback will re-ignite my will to continue working on it
The tool is currently only for image compressions, is open-source, works on the user machine, potentially can be PWA, and already can work without an internet connection with a service worker (kind of extra proof that it's secure and no data is sent to the server except analytics)

compress.cat

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Paul

Its an interesting project and I really like how straight-forward and simple it is.

Since you wanted a feedback, here's couple of quick things I notice

  • Since its an open-source project a Github link on the website would make it easier for people to find and contribute to your project
  • The drag and drop doesn't seem to work correctly.
  • Adding a drop area right on the landing page would make it much more easier for your visitors to try your tool
  • When trying to add multiple images an error occurs.

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Hopefully that should get you started :). Looking forward to see the complete project.

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Andrii

Thanks, Paul appreciate it

  • Since its an open-source project a Github link on the website would make it easier for people to find and contribute to your project. Right, but I don't quite want people to contribute, more just share code so they can check by themself it's really "privacy first". But link somewhere is definitely needed
  • The drag and drop doesn't seem to work correctly. Reminder to me to finally write some tests here
  • Right, minus the extra step, in version 0.0.0.0.0.1 it was working like that, but then I decided "I need a landing page". But now I see if I need it, users not necessarily do
  • When trying to add multiple images an error occurs. Ah, once again testing, is definitely the next thing I should do after fixing it

Thanks, that's great feedback didn't even know I had so many bugs at this stage

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Sindbad • Edited

Hey checked out your project. Really handy in certain scenarios. A small suggestions: I would have liked to have sliders to be on right side like your personal website second section, instead of scrolling to bottom. Also if it's open source, provide a github link. If you don't want people to contribute, just put in the readme file.

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Andrii

Thanks for the feedback!
Sliders, Do you mean "quality" slider and buttons? Yeah, it makes sense but I thought it's better to have a full-width image so you can spot artifacts if there are any. Provided a link, but on landing there is still a lot of work to do to redesign it, and I am not happy with it. Right, didn't think about Readme
Thanks!

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vladkens

Hi. Choosing fonts is a problem if you are not a designer. Good luck with your project!

I've been working on this projects last year:

  • ghstats - self-hosted service to track & keep GitHub repos views (Rust)
  • macmon - Apple M-series performance monitor in CLI with power metrics (Rust)
  • ecloop - let say fast Bitcoin addresses checker by bloom filter (a lot of interesting math inside) (pure C)
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Paul

whoa! That's a lot of cool stuff you are build, good to see so many of them are open-source

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heyeasley 🍓🥭

Wow ! Exceptional.

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King Triton

GTA (no, I'm not a Rockstar developer), GitHub Trending Archive is an app that collects information about popular GitHub repositories daily and stores it in a database. With this app, you can track changes in trends for selected programming languages ​​as a local website, if you're interested, you can check it out here -> github.com/king-tri-ton/github_tre...

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Horace Nelson

Great idea.

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King Triton

thanks

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Arnaud Dagnelies

Currently, mostly webauthn.passwordless.id

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Paul

This is pretty impressive!

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heyeasley 🍓🥭

Cool.

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Adam Gardner • Edited

tracepusher is my project to bring OpenTelemetry to all those places where it isn't. Think. (Power) shell scripts, CICD pipelines, translating correlated log lines to GANTT style traces, creating traces from .har files etc. etc.

github.com/agardnerIT/tracepusher

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heyeasley 🍓🥭

I use to hear about opentelemetry even on this platform. What is about it concretely ?

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Adam Gardner

An open standard, SDK and tools to help generate telemetry data (metrics, logs and traces) in a vendor neutral way. It is not a storage / analysis platform.

In short, it's a way to make your services and applications emit telemetry in a standardised way which can then be consumed by other tooling.

This might help too: opentelemetry.io/docs/what-is-open...

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heyeasley 🍓🥭

Thanks too much. It is clear method to explain such topic.

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Thomas Bnt ☕

This is a small Discord bot with beautiful photos from Unsplash. Only high quality pictures. This is a free service, and any users can search with words, or randomly get a photo. Or directly the profile of a user.

Splash Everyday - A Discord bot with Unsplash

Splash Everyday is a simple Discord bot who you can request some beautiful pictures come from Unsplash ! So you'll only find photos in HD quality and various colours!

favicon thomasbnt.dev
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Kazys • Edited

My pet project is a Visual Studio extension that assists in the test-driven development process. It primarily helps generate the boilerplate code needed for TDD. Link to it: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items... and easytdd.dev/ or dev.to/easytdd

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heyeasley 🍓🥭

Great.

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Horace Nelson • Edited

The transience of connection.

I also have one project dropping its invite-only, public alpha launch soon, and another for which I've coded the core functionality.

1. DevScore.ai

DevScore.ai is a tool for developers who want to quantify and accelerate their impact on their projects and in the dev community (similar to CoderRank, but definitely not CoderRank). By analyzing your activity and interactions across platforms like GitHub, Gitlab, Bitbucket, Dev.to, Medium, Codepen, CodeSandbox, and like a dozen more, DevScore breaks down your impact into four key scores: Productivity, Influence, Prestige, and Engagement. These categories combine into a single, comprehensive DevScore—your "developer credit score," showcased on your public profile. Users will have access to their historical source metrics and will be empowered by AI-driven insights and guidance.

With DevScore, you can:

  • Track Your Progress: Get real-time insights into your work volume, community influence, and technical achievements.
  • Connect and Grow: See how your contributions and collaborations elevate your standing in the developer ecosystem.
  • Receive Actionable Insights: Our AI provides personalized recommendations to help you boost your scores and take your career to the next level.
  • Showcase Your DevScore: Display your DevScore to employers, peers, and collaborators as proof of your expertise and impact.
  • Vouch for other devs.

2. PageScore.ai

PageScore.ai will be a synthetic monitoring and analysis tool designed to optimize Web page performance, security, and compliance. By running scheduled scans, it dynamically assesses critical areas like SEO, accessibility, CSS/HTML validation, availability, and security headers. PageScore.ai stores historical data to track progress over time and provides actionable, AI-driven insights and recommendations to improve web page performance and compliance. With comprehensive, automated audits and alerting (via webhooks), PageScore.ai ensures that websites consistently meet modern standards for usability, operability, availability, and validity. It'll be priced on a per URL, per scan model—pay only for what you need—which will undercut all competitors.

PageScore.ai’s audit categories are:

  1. Performance
  2. SEO
  3. Accessibility
  4. CSS Validation
  5. HTML Validation
  6. Best Practices
  7. Progressive Web App implementation
  8. Header Validation
  9. JavaScript Errors
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heyeasley 🍓🥭

Loving animations. Pretty awesome.

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Salajan Silviu

I made this tool, inspired by Omakub, for rails developers and not only. Ubuntu Development Sprinter is a collection of scripts that will set up your development environment on Ubuntu and different flavours. You can find it here.

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Richard Ikin

I am currently working on a C# / .Net conversion of the Java game framework, LibGDX.
This is, for me, a spectacularly ambitious project as I had never used C# at all when I started the project.
This project is also very, very eye-opening. I've been a developer since 1982, mostly 8-bit assembly languages and C, with some Java. I am most definitely not a game developer. Working on this project has completely destroyed any impressions of skill levels that I may have had about my experience. It get's more and more obvious that I am seriously lacking in many skillsets, so it means I am learning so much with this project. I am 60 now, so It hit hard to realise that I had not developed the skills that many others have. It doesn't matter though, at least my brain will have plenty of opportunities to stay active. I love coding and there is much to learn.

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Stokry

iconsnap.me/. Say goodbye to tedious editing processes and hello to instant refinement as our intelligent system seamlessly corrects and enhances your designs as you create.

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Paul

whoa! that's pretty cool! Looking forward to seeing it when it becomes public.

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Kazys

Looks nice!

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heyeasley 🍓🥭

Wow !

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Sheriff Oladimeji

I'm working on a public quotes platform where anyone is able to add their own quotes Qlip.
I'd appreciate your feedback.

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Paul

Like the idea, but seem to be loading forever?? can't see any quotes.

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Sheriff Oladimeji • Edited

Please check again, I'm using a free hosting service for now and it's sometimes not active

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Paul

Ok cool! got it. Since you are looking for feedback, here are some.

  1. You header images are huge close to 1 MB in file size, you should try to send compressed images, else your load time would be high.
  2. I like the download quote button, but wish there was an option to specify size, or automatically download for social media size.
  3. In desktop, the sharing button doesn't work. I think you should make it work for desktop as well.

Those are my few suggestion. Its an interesting project, hopefully you'll continue to work on it and improve it. Good luck!

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Sheriff Oladimeji

Thanks for the feedback. I'll definitely look into that

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Hrish B • Edited

I'm building IncidentHub - It's a tool to monitor your third-party cloud and SaaS services and send notifications, primarily meant for Dev/Ops/SRE/IT Teams. I built this based on my past work experience where I felt a need for such a tool and had to be satisfied with patched together scripts.

You can sign up for free - I would love to have your feedback - incidenthub.cloud/

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heyeasley 🍓🥭 • Edited

Interesting. Is it a tool for costumers of these all services ?

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Hrish B

Yes, exactly. If you try it out do share feedback - you can sign up for free.

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heyeasley 🍓🥭

OK.

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harshit_lakhani

Hey Community,

A few months ago, we at Trendy Studio decided to take on a challenge—build something new and exciting. AI is everywhere, and we wanted to create something meaningful around it. As developers, we explored various AI models but noticed a gap: there weren’t many good AI chat UIs that were modern, user-friendly, and privacy-focused.

Here are some of the features that we have provided in this OS project

🧠 Multiple LLM Providers: Supports various language models, including Ollama.
🔌 Plugins Library: Enhances functionality through a plugin system with function calling capabilities.
🌐 Web Search Plugin: Allows the AI to access and utilize web information.
🤖 Custom Assistants: Create and customize AI assistants for specific tasks or domains.
🗣️ Text-to-Speech: Converts text responses to speech using Whisper.
🎙️ Speech-to-Text: (Coming soon) Will enable voice input for a more natural interaction.
💾 Local Storage: Utilizes in-browser IndexedDB for efficient data storage.
📤📥 Data Portability: Import and export your chat data for backup or transfer.
📚 Knowledge Spaces: (Coming soon) Create custom knowledge bases for specialized topics.
📝 Prompt Library: Access a collection of pre-defined prompts to guide conversations.
👤 Personalization: Utilizes a memory plugin to provide more contextual and personalized responses.
📱 Progressive Web App: Installable on various devices for a native app-like experience

So, we built one from scratch! It’s designed with users in mind and puts privacy first.
We’d love to hear your thoughts! Check it out: llmchat.co

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heyeasley 🍓🥭

Keep going.

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Cesar Aguirre

Not exactly a product, I'm working on my newsletter. Every other Friday, I send 5 o 6 interesting links or resources mostly about coding. Around ~20-30 subscribers so far. (Link in my bio :) shameless plug)

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arungeorgesaji

Working on VortexLinux,i would say audience is nice but would love to build up the developers aswell so if anyone is interested(join the discord if you want to contribute or even just to keep up with the news)

Anyways

Github Org

Website

Discord

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heyeasley 🍓🥭

Good.

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Oscar

Haven't really mentioned it to anyone, but I'm working on a blog of my own, aptly named the NoAI blog (or something along the lines of that). It won't be strictly no AI, I'd like to have some exceptions. But for the most part, blog posts will be written completely by a human. I also have some ideas for features past a basic blog site. Nothing to show yet :)

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Lucas Schmidt

I'm currently working on a clone of the Twetter app. It's my first time using TypeScript, and I'm finding it both fascinating and challenging. I'm aiming to create something that closely resembles the original.

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heyeasley 🍓🥭

I think there was always clone of Twitter that I used in past. I don't remember its name. It had some functionalities and remained mainly more slighter than the original.

If I find name, let me know if you're interested.

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Nicolas • Edited

Well... i need to hurry cause i am going to a commitment.
Currently, i am working on a C++ HTTP Server, inspired by ExpressJS, literally the same idea and programmable interface.
Soon i will get here again to explain more about it, anyway the repository to the project are here

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heyeasley 🍓🥭

Congratulations.

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Debajyati Dey

Currently I'm building TurboTerm.vim , a vim plugin which adds smart terminal integration in vim.(currently works only in vanilla vim not neovim). It is written in vimscript and I'm planning to extend it in a way it will be supported in NeoVim also. ( Work in progress )

GitHub logo Debajyati / turboterm.vim

smart terminal integration plugin in vimscript

TurboTerm.vim

A vim plugin for adding smart/easy terminal integration in Vanilla Vim (in vimscript)

It won't work in Neovim - ;(

But it works like a charm in vim :) I mean, it should!

Installation Instruction

  • Install vim plug or your preferred plugin manager to install the plugin If using vim-plug
call plug#begin('~/.vim/plugged')
... (your other plugins)
Plug 'Debajyati/turboterm.vim'
call plug#end()
Enter fullscreen mode Exit fullscreen mode

Save the .vimrc file. Restart Vim.

Then run - :PlugInstall to install it.

Using the plugin

Using the command - :TurboToggle:

  • It takes two arguments - arg1:height/width, arg2:direction ( up | down | right | left )
  • First argument is neccessary. In case of second argument, default value down is used. For example - :TurboToggle 80 right will open/toggle the terminal with 80 width of size in the right side of a vertical split.

Using the keymaps -





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plutonium239

I recently made this: personal-dictionary.pages.dev
I needed an app that could just save some words I tell it to and their meanings. I could not find a good app that does this, only one that was paid. So I decided to make it, and it ofc had to be open source! It saves to your local storage so there's no cloud/server hosted experience.
It was my first experience with svelte, I love it.

I am not a web developer, rather an ml researcher.
So something related to that: memsave_torch. This is a python package which significantly reduces memory consumption when performing selective differentiation in pytorch.

Another project of mine is plotlyshare. Ever made a beautiful interactive plot using plotly and wanted to share it with a link instead of having to send an html file? This is the answer. It requires a deta.space account (free) to be your private server and storage, and comes with a easy to use python package and a dashboard (made with flask+ raw jinja2 lmao).

A project in Go I'm working on is a tui task list. I was inspired by mayhem but feel it leaves a lot to be desired. Nothing to show yet for this, but the tui runs well!

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Menai Ala Eddine

We are building kariudo:

AI-powered conversational platform for talent and job opportunities outsourcing.

Check the demo: kariudo.app/

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Paul

Interesting! looking forward to the launch.

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Todd DeWitt

I'm building a combat simulator for the Savage Worlds TTRPG. Basically, determine survivability percentage for a specific encounter.

The TTRPG has a "wild die" mechanic that can be used to enhance your chances of success (essentially, roll twice and take the better). This, the "exploding die" mechanic (keep rolling if you roll the highest pip on the die), and the "art" of encounter design make things swing-ey and unpredictable.

I hope to gather stats to determine what attributes can simulate the feel of other TTRPGs.

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Alireza Yaghouti

Currently, the project I am working on is not a product, but rather a powerful tool in the field of SEO, where users can add their WordPress sites and pay a monthly subscription to a variety of tools, including full analysis, conversion of links to articles, etc. to have access.

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Mohit Verma

I am working on PostMaker to create nice carousel posts for multiple social platforms.

PostMaker.getworktools.com

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heyeasley 🍓🥭 • Edited

Congratulations. Seems to be very useful.

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Max Sveshnikov

I just built autocode.work/

Honestly, it built itself. I was just helping

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Venkatesh Soma

wow, this seems cool. How many hours did you put it to get it work?

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Max Sveshnikov • Edited

I started a week ago.

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Saša M

If you're tired of the complexity of SPA frameworks like Angular, React, or Vue, consider trying Dodo Framework.

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heyeasley 🍓🥭 • Edited

Great. What's SPA acronym ? I have visited website. Congratulations.

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Achraf Hebboul

I working on writing content about WordPress, especially the dev part about WordPress, you can check out my last post here in dev.to

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Dev Yadav

Great one and building new things is very interesting and I am building simple web editor devvarena.com

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Paul

Wow! Really like the theme.

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Manuel Sanchez

I love your font tester!!!!

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Paul

Thank you soo much! The extension went live only yesterday. Looks like you were my first user, besides myself. Lol!

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wafi nashwan

I made a gui for git github.com/WafiWadud/git_helper
I'm currently working on
github.com/WafiWadud/Journal

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heyeasley 🍓🥭

Good. Congratulations.

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heyeasley 🍓🥭

Nice. Keep going.

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heyeasley 🍓🥭

I'm looking to master Figma in introducing it in my projects. One of them is on the way, it yet refers to more calculate carbon footprint. 😄

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Harry Brook

Waiting for it!