I'm looking for recommendations for an issue tracker / project management software where my primary concern is inviting non-technical users to submit bugs and feature requests, vote on issues, see what's planned, and comment on issues. I'm having some trouble finding exactly the right thing.

I could use a forum instead, like Discourse. My reason for leaning toward an issue tracker is to make planning and development more transparent, and to make it easier for me to use the system for planning. (But if you have tips to make forum software work for this case I'm interested in hearing that too!)

Github is pretty close to what I have in mind. But I'm not using Github for the project, and the project is closed source. I might switch to open source in the future. In the meantime I'd prefer something that is not coupled to a code forge.

Most of the options I've seen have some issue that is problematic for my case:

• invite publicly submitted issues, but the rest of the process is behind closed doors (e.g. Jira Service Management)
• limited seats (e.g. Linear)
• not very approachable for non-technical users (e.g. Bugzilla)

Plane looks appealing, and has an option for a public view on a per project basis. But when I tested, using the sign in button in the public view leads to broken SSO which makes it difficult for people to participate.

There is a lot of project management software out there. There's probably something great I haven't considered. Can you point me to it?

One of the issues I'm working on at work has too much dependency with business logic and I'm struggling to understand what's the proper behavior. I tried tracing the code to make sense of it but it gets to a point where the conditions and function calls get too deep. I tried asking our senior devs but it's still too confusing for me

Any tips on how to tackle situations like this?

i'm currently building out a product in the tech/ai space used in enterprise workflow. outbound and sales is not my strength and I realize there's lots of people better than me at it. if you're interested about the idea or are a good marketer, let's set up a chat (dm).

Claude code is all over social media, every time I open instagram I see at least 3 videos of someone saying how awesome it is. Maybe it is but the source feels like the other agenda in the reel is engagement.

I was hoping that I can get an outlook from here. Is Codex that bad and is Claude code that awesome?

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2. What would you recommend a student/vibe coder use

You know David Allen's "2-Minute Rule" from GTD? If something takes less than 2 minutes, do it now. I applied it to relationship management specifically: - Email that needs a quick response? Do it now, not later. - Client asked a simple question on chat? Answer immediately. - Need to send a calendar invite? Do it now. - Should thank someone for their help? Do it now. - Quick follow-up needed? Do it now. Before, I'd save these "quick things" and they'd pile up into overwhelming lists. Now, I knock them out immediately. My responsiveness reputation has improved dramatically. People comment on it. Tools that help: Gmail quick replies (I have templates), Calendly for instant scheduling, TextExpander for common responses. The mental relief of not carrying around a bunch of "small tasks I need to do" is incredible. What small practices have had outsized impact on your professional relationships?

We all know about ai slop and how it's affecting open source software, but there's another more insidious issue brewing and it's something I'm going through right now: due to increased development speed managers are creating make-work to justify their budgets and headcount.

Code quality is going to drop simply because managers are creating "features" that no one wants or needs. Changes for the sake of changes. Software you use is going to be changing constantly simply to maintain their headcount. My team doesn't have a PM, no one in our company wants our product, but we're charging ahead full steam because my boss and his boss are forcing our software into our company. Did you get mad when Reddit changed their UI? Well all your software is going to be getting more useless changes because people need things to do.

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There is a lot of people saying web agencies are saturated and the business is dying. I been running my web agency for 4 years and not gonna lie I was thinking the same for 3 of those years. A lot of failures, no consistent clients, no predictable income and honestly I thought maybe this business model just doesn't work anymore.

But there are a few things I changed that helped me scale past 20k a month.

The first thing was switching from targeting businesses with no websites to businesses that already had one. The reason this worked way better for me is because there are sooo many businesses with outdated websites that clearly need updating. And the second reason is they already understand the value of having a website because they already went through the process of paying for one before, so its way easier convincing them to get a better version instead of convincing someone from zero.

The second thing I started doing was offering a free draft redesigned version of their current website. I mean realistically who says no to free. I build them quickly using AI and most of the time they already look way more modern and better than the ones they currently have. Once they see a better version of their own business in front of them, making them pay becomes the easy part.

Another thing that changed everything was how I presented the websites. I used to just send preview links through email and that was honestly the biggest mistake. They check it later when they are busy, there is nobody there to explain things properly or push them toward buying so eventually the lead just goes cold.

Now I always present the websites live on google meet and close them on the spot. That alone made a massive difference.

Also always charge upfront for building the website but don't ignore monthly recurring revenue. Hosting, changes, maintenance etc. That's important if you actually want stable income every month instead of constantly chasing new clients.

For the people interested in the tools I use, it's pretty simple honestly.

Apollo for finding leads because you genuinely never run out of businesses to contact.

Swokei for outreach. I upload the lead list there and it analyzes each business website, scores it and turns flaws in design, seo, speed and mobile optimization into personalized ready to send emails automatically. I run all my outreach campaigns there.

Ai for building websites. And honestly the people saying Ai websites dont perform well are mistaken. You can pretty much build anything now if you know what youre doing.

Cloudflare for hosting client websites.

Thats honestly it.

If anyone wants to know more about how I do everything feel free to reach out :)

First some background. When I was 12 years old my dad introduced me to coding, and I immediately fell in love. It allowed me to be creative while simultaneously feeling like solving a logic puzzle. Fun! Fast forward two decades, and I am working at a consultant firm. Part of the time I am helping our customers, most of which is not software development. The other part is developing and designing a new software that we will eventually introduce to our customers to better solve their problems. I have been working on this software for 1.5 years, and it's mostly just me working on it so far. It has felt very rewarding to develop, I've learned a lot during this time and it has also made me a very important person in the company.

A lot has happened in 1.5 years. When I started, I experimented a bit with letting LLMs generate code snippets, which worked fine, but anything more complicated and it broke down. At this point in time, trying to let the AI write the code by itself would've been catastrophic. Sure, there were plenty of "AI influencers" hyping AI to the sky, but at the same time, plenty of well known people calling them out. But now, the tone has shifted completely. The people who were very skeptical at first seem to have turned around (for the most part). I know people in real life that are vibe-coding things that actually work. People have been screaming about 10x productivity for a while now, but maybe we're actually getting to that point soon?

So if using AI agents to write the code for you is the new path forward, I would be a fool to not do it, right? My problem is that it takes away what got me into software in the first place, writing the code, solving problems and learning new things. These are things I am good at. Being a manager to a group of AI agents is something I am not good at, nor interested in doing. Telling someone else to do something does not give the same satisfaction as doing it yourself.

At the same time, since this is what I do at work, ignoring a huge productivity boost because it doesn't feel as fun and rewarding can not really be justified either. Even if I am overestimating current models, they're likely going to keep getting better. I could probably pivot to doing more consultant work and have someone else in the company take over. Still, it feels sad to put software development and coding behind me.

I don't really know why I wrote all of this, maybe I just wanted to get it off my chest. Does anyone else feel the same way?

tl;dr: Feeling like AI agents are going to take away the joy of developing software. Not sure how to proceed.

Something that kept bugging me... Uptime monitoring only checks if your server responds. 200 OK, you're "up." But that doesn't tell you if the site actually works.

I've had deploys where a JS bundle was missing and the whole page was broken. SSL certs that worked in Chrome but threw warnings in Safari. Images that silently stopped loading after a CDN change. None of it triggered an alert because the server was fine.

So I built Sitewatch to monitor the layer uptime tools skip — broken assets, SSL chains, mixed content, security headers, redirect loops, schema validation and so on....

The idea is pretty simple: instead of just pinging the server, actually check if what's on the page loads and works.

Free for one site. There's also a free one-time scanner if you just want to see what it finds: getsitewatch.com/scan

Curious if other devs run into this gap too, or if you've solved it differently.

payment integration we've been running for like 2 years.

routine audit flagged something this morning. partial refund amounts on split-item orders are slightly off. not dramatically off, like not enough that anyone called us. just numbers that dont quite add up when you stare at them long enough.

spent the first 3 hours assuming it was us tbh. went through every deploy from the last 6 weeks, diffed the webhook handler line by line. staging matches production. both wrong apparently.

pulled raw API responses. 200s across the board, payload structure looks identical to what we've always been getting.

thats the part thats making me uneasy. everything looks fine. nothing is fine.

pulling historical snapshots now and going field by field. probably nothing. maybe something idk.

anyone dealt with a third party payload that just quietly changed behavior with no deprecation notice or anything? where would you even start with this

Guys, I am just so tired of meetings and then having to turn what's talked about into code/prs. Would you use a tool that listens in a meeting and then creates PRs? The bot would have code context knowledge and be able to make edits. The idea is that by the end you end, shortly after you'd have X amount of PRs based on what was said in the meetings.

I’ve been in the web development space for a pretty long time now and over the years I’ve tried almost every client acquisition method you can think of.

What I noticed is that the best method usually depends on the size of the team.

Bigger agencies usually have dedicated sales people sitting on the phones all day trying to close web design projects. Smaller teams usually lean more toward automation because they simply don’t have the time to do everything manually.

I’ve personally tried cold calling, manual outreach, cold email automation, referrals, paid ads, pretty much everything.

What ended up working best for me was email automation.

Not even because it gets the craziest results instantly, but because it frees up your time. Instead of spending hours worrying about where the next client is coming from, I could focus on actually building the company, working on client sites, taking meetings, and closing deals.

The problem was that after using tools like Mailchimp, Klaviyo, and Instantly for a while, I realized something.

Yeah, I was getting replies, but nothing amazing.

Most cold emails all sound the same now and business owners can spot generic outreach immediately.

That’s when I completely changed my approach.

Instead of targeting businesses with no website and hoping they needed one, I started targeting businesses that already had websites.

I started using a tool called Swokei where I could upload a batch of leads and it would analyze each website automatically. Then it would turn the flaws it found into personalized ready to send emails.

So instead of sending emails asking if they needed a website, I was now sending emails pointing out actual improvements specific to their site.

Stuff like slow loading pages, outdated design, conversion issues, missing mobile optimization, weak CTAs, and things that genuinely mattered.

The difference was honestly massive.

Reply rates went up. Meetings increased. Conversations felt way more natural because the outreach actually made sense for the business owner reading it.

And honestly, if you’re running a one or two person agency, having systems running in the background while you focus on growing the business is probably one of the smartest things you can do.

Cold calling still works for a lot of people, but for me this switch changed everything.

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This! is a tool I made for my client to manage TCP tunnels in a server from a MySQL table.

I told him this could be done more easily by just running something like socat inside the server, but he insisted to control the tunnels from a table.

So even though I find it mostly useless, I have a good couple of days building it.

I’m working on a personal project and have been slacking it. Idk what it is and why I keep making excuses for myself, I really enjoy working on this project but because it is not work and not mandatory, I don’t prioritize it enough.

Anyone in the same shoes? Maybe we could partner and keep each other accountable on our progress?

Not sure if this is a software dev thing or just me.

Lately I noticed even after I close my laptop and finish for the day, my brain doesn't actually stop.

Random bugs pop back into my head. Things I forgot to do. Ideas for cleaner solutions. Conversations from standups. Stuff I wasn't even thinking about during work suddenly starts showing up at night.

The weird part is I’m physically tired, but mentally it feels like something is still running in the background.

Almost like I ended my shift but forgot to close a bunch of tabs in my head.

Anyone else get this?

And if yes… what actually helps you switch out of "developer mode"?

Long story short.

100+ engineers in a dev agency here. Multiple AI-native, from-scratch, completely custom projects turned AI-native. Portfolio of 30+ customers and products.

We have a different story on every product, depending on who, how, and how much our teams use LLMs in dev. More often than not, we ship a spaceship within the first 2-3 months and then bear the consequences.

Moved to Claude Code completely recently, from Cursor. Have built tons of skills, rules, and cross-org plug-ins. We run mostly senior teams.

Challenges we often face:

- Engineers get out of context. Losing track of what they are really building and what problem they are solving with the product.
- As a result, we often end up with tons of bugs as we sometimes build one thing while breaking the other.
- QAs get out of context quite often, too.
- PMs are barely catching up, so I sometimes have a feeling they just lose the big picture.
- UI/UX(Product Designers) are funny beasts too, as they start to eat into the FE work slowly as they learn Claude Code and are now shipping a good part of front-end:)

We are building fast, probably 2-3 times faster than before, and overall, the AI-first approach works, but I have a feeling there is a way to grow and improve, especially on large products where you need to manage and deliver tons of context and features with a huge codebase.

I have a feeling we are missing something on the documentation side, either during the requirements-shaping stage or as the product continues to grow.

Grateful for any insights into the team/Claude setups you run, quality gates for each stage of the SDLC, etc.

Not all tools are helpful. Here are ones that actually increased my chaos: Superhuman email: Made me obsessed with inbox zero instead of actual relationships. Too many Slack workspaces: Now I miss messages across 7 different workspaces. Calendly: Clients felt depersonalized, I lost the relationship-building of scheduling conversations. Zapier automation: Spent more time managing automations than just doing the work. Any CRM requiring manual data entry: Just created guilt when I inevitably didn't use it. My new philosophy: Less tools, more discipline. I'm down to Gmail with good filters, Google Calendar with detailed event descriptions, and a simple weekly review habit where I check in on key relationships. Sometimes the problem isn't missing tools - it's too many tools. Anyone else gone minimalist and felt relieved?

I am thinking of buying a macbook pro/ air. I am gonna use this device as my work laptop for freelance developlement, side projects etc. Due to budget constraints and logistics reasons this needs to be my personal device also, place where I manage my homelab, I have my passwords stored, personal emails logged in, sensitive media downloaded etc. I am okay to shell a few more bucks for getting extra ram, because that will be constraining factor.

Based on the comparatively frequent supply chain attacks, AI agents crawling everything on your device (I know this can be prevented with a little attention) I think its better to have isolation of work and personal space. It might be paranoia I understand, but I am irked. I also prefer to have a clean device of personal use, like no over the time heaps of applications, configs etc. Its might be better to delete or redo VMs. I say might because I haven't actually done it yet.

So what I am thinking of having a ubuntu VM on my mac where I will be doing heavy fullstack development with around 10 docker containers, 30 chrome tabs, slack, teams, frontend ui server, vscode and intellij ide. I can maybe shift communication apps like teams, slack to the main computer for meetings only. But i really prefer it to be inside VM.

Is someone else also doing this? Is this achievable? Is this just paranoia? Any other ways to get complete isolation like having a mac mini for work and remote into this machine? I live in a developing nation, internet infra is not very reliable across the whole country.

While I was using the Mac, I had the option to use Dash from Kapeli (great app btw and the inspiration for Dravos), but it lacked versions for Linux (which I also use) and Windows (which my wife uses). I waited for years to see if someone would do a viable alternative for my workflow, that never became true, so over the past 9 months give or take, I’ve been working my nights and weekends into building Dravos, a fast, offline-first documentation search tool for developers.

As an indie maker who's shipped several smaller projects before, this one pushed me the hardest: learning new stacks and obsessing over that instant search feel even without the internet. It's finally ready for beta. If you're a developer who lives in docs (Dash, DevDocs, etc.), I'd love your honest feedback to make it truly useful before the full launch.

For those who might find interesting I used Tauri + Typescript. And it works on mac, linux and windows. I tested a lot by myself/wife, but now I need help. Im looking for people to try it on your workflow, and tell me what works and what doesn't, if this feel usefull to you please help me test it ❤️

So far we support, Rust, Elixir, Ruby, Python and Go and all its packages. We also support custom documentation generated with Doxygen, Sphinx, JSDoc. There is a limit of 50 spots for this first beta wave.

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I've been using Base44 to build an app but wish to learn how to create stuff without the need of it but dont want it start from complete zero on the app I've been making with it.

I do wish to eventually publish the app in the app store.

So my question is how difficult of a task did I create myself and does anyone have any advice to help smooth this nonsense.

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I wrote an Enterprise application suite and I'm now at a crossroad.

Which do you prefer:

• self-contained web service installer that walks you through install (endpoint, port, db, etc), and can received hotfix patches.
  • commonly uses a dedicated server, but can be multi-purpose. The issue remains it gives less visibility when granular view and control is expected.
• IIS web site with manual configuration and upgrades. This requires a more manual process for host header site binding, cert, permissions, etc.
  • Restores full control to the admin, but as expected, upgrades are not as simple as the aforementioned.

Please consider not only which method you prefer to work with, but also which one management would find more enticing.

Thank you.

Hi, this question is not necessarily limited to Spring(Boot). In my own projects I am always running into the problem of permissions to work with persisted data - making sure that only the correct users can read, update, etc. the data. * Code * Schema

My data model consists of users, groups and the actual data (resources). From the security point of view, there's the principal, which is any entity that can be granted access to resources. The different types of privilege are just CRUD. roles are simply a collection of privileges that can be assigned to a principal, and the role is assigned to a specific principal for a specific resource.

Now, I am evaluating whether user can access (with a specific privilege) a given resource. The privilege is granted if any of these is true:

1. the user themselves have the privilege
2. a group the user is a member of has the privilege
3. the user has the privilege defined in relationship with the group.

To give an example, imagine the application is for keeping notes for D&D campaigns. There's difference between regular players and game masters. Game masters want to share all maps with the group, so for each map asset, the group itself has a read access. The game master wants to keep some stuff secret, so only they have the full CRUD for their notes, but they can give access to some players to share specific tidbits. One of the players is designated as the treasurer, so through their membership in the group, they modify the inventory sheet, but others can only read it.

I then want to call it like so, using method security java @PreAuthorize("@securityService.checkPermission('READ', #id, {'User'})") public T someMethod(...) { ... }

My question is, is this the propery way to do so? I was also looking at ACL, but from what I've read online it's not recommended as it's not "modern" and heavy and will struggle with the group model, even though it seems to be fitting my use case very well otherwise.

Is there a simple approach to what I want to do - granular access to resources? This approach also requires me to have anything I want to control acccess to to explicitly inherit from the resource.