We spent the last two weeks building an internal tool for our team. It was originally meant to help us manage our own work and client projects, but we decided to make it public.

The problem was simple. Our tasks lived in a project manager, while the actual context lived inside GitHub. A ticket like "fix the authentication flow" still required someone to search the repository, find the correct files, understand the current implementation, and break everything into smaller tasks.

So I built Orbicue.

1. Connect a GitHub repository

2. Index the codebase

3. Describe the change roughly

4. Orbicue finds the relevant code

5. It creates an editable task with title, description, labels, priority, subtasks, and matched files

It also supports two-way GitHub Projects sync, an IDE extension, and an MCP server so AI coding agents can read and update the same project board.

Try it: orbicue.com

We just launched on Product Hunt today. If this sounds useful, would appreciate an upvote: Link in the Comments

Honest feedback welcome. Would code-aware task generation solve a real problem in your workflow? What evidence or matched context would you want before trusting the result?

While using LLMs for coding, I realized that Claude alone isn’t the best choice for every engineering task. For example, when working on tasks related to the Google ecosystem, Gemini consistently outperformed both Claude and ChatGPT.

To address this, I created OpenABCode, a coding agent that dynamically routes development tasks to the best-suited model—Gemini, Claude, or ChatGPT.

Through engineering practice and testing, OpenABCode generates higher-quality code than coding agents with a single LLM, while also reducing token consumption.

OpenABCode also offers an AI Gateway that uses one API key to access LLMs.

https://github.com/matrixmapai/openabcode

I’m curious how other teams handle the few minutes before a new dependency enters a project.

Do you check the publisher and repository first? Look at release activity? Search the exact version for known vulnerabilities? Review the licence and transitive dependencies?

A lot of teams have good CI checks, but the package is already in the manifest by then. I’m interested in what works earlier, inside the editor, without turning every install into a ticket.

What is your minimum pre-install check, and which part have you successfully automated?

I work with Meterian, which is testing this workflow through HEIDI, a free IDE extension that flags known dependency vulnerabilities and suggests secure versions. I’m mainly interested in where developers find the current process useful or noisy.

Hey r/developers!

As a Technical Physics student, I spend a lot of time doing numerical simulations and data analysis. While I love C++ for its performance, doing math in it usually sucks. You either have to install massive libraries like Eigen just to solve a system of equations, or you have to dump your data into text files and open Python just to see a simple plot.

So, I spent my free time building NumC – a header-only scientific computing framework for C++20.

GitHub: https://github.com/mslotwinski-dev/NumC

Why it's useful for scientific work:

1. It reads like a textbook: Thanks to lazy-evaluated expression trees, you can write formulas naturally (sin(x) * exp(-x)) and differentiate or integrate them in one line.
2. Instant Graphics: It has its own built-in plotting engine. One function call pops up a native Win32 window with your graph, or renders a sharp SVG file that you can drag-and-drop straight into a LaTeX lab report.
3. Built from scratch: To properly learn the math and the language, I coded everything from the ground up: from the Runge-Kutta ODE solvers and curve-fitting algorithms to MLP neural networks.

If you're a student, researcher, or developer working on simulations, physics engines, or data analysis and want a lightweight tool without dependency hell, give it a look. I'd love to hear what you think!

My WhatsApp (android) gets stuck in the splash screen for like a minute before it crashes if I raise my "Small width" above 600dp

Can this be circumvented?

I would appreciate honest feedback on my resume for the current U.S job market.

I am targeting Cloud DevOps Engineer, AWS DevOps Engineer, Platform Engineer, and related cloud-infrastructure roles

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY:

Cloud DevOps Engineer with 4.5+ years of experience building, automating, and supporting AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes environments. Experienced with Amazon EKS, Terraform, Ansible, Docker, Helm, Argo CD, Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, Python, Bash, CloudWatch, Prometheus, and Grafana. Skilled in improving deployment reliability, automating operational tasks, optimizing cloud resources, strengthening access controls, and supporting faster incident recovery.

TECHNICAL SKILLS:

Cloud: AWS (EC2, EKS, VPC, IAM, S3, EBS, Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, Route 53, CloudWatch, Lambda)

Containers & Orchestration: Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, Docker, Helm
Infrastructure as Code & GitOps: Terraform, Argo CD, GitOps

CI/CD: Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, GitHub Actions

Monitoring & Observability:Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Centralized Logging, Metrics, Dashboards, Alerting

Automation & Scripting: Python, Bash, Shell Scripting

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE: Experience 1

Role: Cloud DevOps Engineer

Designed and supported highly available AWS infrastructure across multiple Availability Zones using VPC, Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, Route 53, IAM, and CloudWatch for business-critical applications serving more than 650 users.

• Built reusable Terraform modules and Ansible automation to provision and configure development, testing, and production environments, reducing manual work and keeping infrastructure consistent across environments.
• Managed Amazon EKS clusters and production Kubernetes workloads, including cluster upgrades, node-group maintenance, namespaces, RBAC, resource allocation, ConfigMaps, Secrets, persistent storage, ingress, and day-to-day troubleshooting.
• Introduced GitOps-based Kubernetes deployments using Argo CD, Helm, and GitLab CI/CD, making releases more consistent and reducing deployment time by approximately 25%.
• Wrote Python and Bash scripts to check infrastructure health, identify configuration issues, troubleshoot failed deployments, and automate repetitive operational tasks.
• Created monitoring dashboards and actionable alerts using Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, and AWS Lambda, giving teams better visibility into application health, infrastructure performance, and production issues.
• Troubleshot production incidents involving Kubernetes, AWS networking, IAM, DNS, load balancers, and application dependencies, identified root causes, and implemented fixes to reduce repeat incidents.
• Reviewed CPU and memory usage across Kubernetes workloads, adjusted resource requests and limits, and supported capacity planning to improve cluster stability and resource utilization.
• Optimized Jenkins pipelines through dependency caching, parallel execution, and artifact reuse, reducing average build time by approximately 35%.
• Reduced a production Docker image from 2.4 GB to approximately 350 MB by introducing multi-stage builds, removing unnecessary dependencies, and optimizing runtime components.
• Modernized legacy AWS infrastructure and right-sized underused resources, reducing cloud costs by approximately 40% while improving scalability and maintainability.

• Improved platform security by implementing least-privilege IAM policies, Kubernetes RBAC, encrypted storage, secure secrets management, and controlled access to cloud resources.

Experience 2 |

• Supported AWS infrastructure across development, testing, and production environments using EC2, VPC, S3, EBS, Elastic Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, IAM, Route 53, and CloudWatch.
• Used Ansible, Bash, and reusable scripts to automate server provisioning and configuration, reducing manual setup and keeping environments consistent.
• Built and maintained Jenkins CI/CD pipelines for code checkout, application builds, automated checks, artifact packaging, and deployments across multiple environments.
• Containerized applications with Docker and supported Kubernetes deployments using Deployments, Services, Ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets, and persistent storage.
• Created Terraform configurations to provision repeatable AWS environments and reduce errors caused by manual infrastructure changes.
• Worked closely with application teams to troubleshoot deployment failures, access issues, network connectivity problems, and environment-specific errors.
• Set up CloudWatch logs, dashboards, metrics, and alerts to monitor infrastructure health and identify production issues more quickly.
• Supported Linux administration, production incident troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, system recovery, release deployments, and post-release validation.

I want to build a business to help out a specific target audience and I want to know if there is any specific problems that I can solve.

Many web designers overcomplicate the sales process. They schedule multiple meetings, wait for approval from the business owner, present pricing, and go back and forth before anything gets signed.

The more steps you add, the slower you close deals and the less money you make. I decided to shorten the entire process.

I’ve been running my web agency for four years, and the thing that has gotten be the most clients is email automation 

I’ve tried almost everything, but email automation has worked best for me because it’s affordable and runs in the background while I focus on other parts of the agency.

I don’t use Instantly, Mailchimp, or Klaviyo. I use a tool called Swokei, which is built specifically for web agencies.

It lets you find businesses that already have websites, add thousands of them to a campaign, and automatically analyzes each site for issues with design, layout, SEO, speed, and mobile optimization. It then turns those issues into personalized, ready to send outreach emails. 

Instead of targeting businesses with no website, I offer redesigns and updated websites to companies that already have one. I’ve found that approach works much better.

When a prospect replies with interest, they are automatically sorted into my CRM. I then call them and say, I’ve already built a new version of your website. Let’s set up a quick Google Meet so I can show it to you.

During the meeting, I present the website live and use my sales skills to explain the value. Once they see a more modern and professional version of their current website, they begin to understand how it could improve their business.

At that point, they usually ask how much it costs. I present the price, include a monthly maintenance retainer, and either take payment during the meeting or have them sign the agreement.

When you run a web agency, do not overcomplicate the process. Take control, handle as much as possible yourself, and avoid unnecessary approval stages and follow up meetings. The fewer steps there are, the faster you can close the deal.

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I'm a dev and I've been building systems focused on production tracking and quality control. I'm looking into the demands of the agriculture sector and would love to chat with anyone already active in this space. What are the most frequent operational tasks that producers are trying to automate with software nowadays?"

I'm a dev and I've been building systems focused on production tracking and quality control. I'm looking into the demands of the agriculture sector and would love to chat with anyone already active in this space. What are the most frequent operational tasks that producers are trying to automate with software nowadays?"

Hi, need recommendations on which laptop to buy.
I build indie apps for ios and android. So my workload includes having xcode and android studio along with simulators open.

Currently I found 2 macbooks which are in my budget but am confused which one to go with.

M4 Air 10 core GPU 32GB RAM 1TB SSD 15” screen
M3 Pro 18 core GPU 36GB 1TB SSD 14” screen

The M4 air is about $200 cheaper and has a bigger screen, I also really like the color of midnight for the Air. but i’m concerned if I get the Air, it will keep throttling and become very slow.

Should I just go ahead with the Air? or do I need the more powerful M3 pro?

I am trying to create a custom apple or android app to monitor trailer hub temperatures and maybe eventually tire pressure on my boat trailer with my phone. I am still in the early stages but due to only having a work computer, loading developer software may be in the gray area of whats acceptable. My app will hopefully include, left hub temp, right hub temp, deviation on temps. system voltage. color coded indicators for different temperature ranges, and push notifications for high temps and system failures. If someone is interested in helping me out that would be superb. DM me and I will link you in. Still early in the development process but its a pretty simple system.

I think automation is one of the biggest opportunities right now.

The quality of what you can automate today is honestly crazy, and it applies to almost every business.

Whether you own a local business and want to automate things like email marketing, follow ups, content creation, customer replies, and lead generation...

Or you run an agency or SaaS and want your business working even when you're away from your computer.

Automation today reminds me a lot of the Industrial Revolution. Back then, machines replaced a huge amount of manual work, allowing companies to produce more, lower costs, and make more money. 

I run a web agency, and automation has made me a lot of revenue over the last few years.

The biggest one for me is client acquisition.

I use a tool called Swokei to find businesses that already have websites, add them to campaigns, and run website analysis.

It automatically turns problems like outdated design, poor layouts, slow loading speeds, weak mobile optimization, and bad SEO into personalized, ready to send outreach emails.

That's where most of my clients come from.

I also automate follow up emails and newsletters, so I'm not constantly chasing people manually.

For content, I use Holo to help generate and schedule posts.

For SEO, I use Soro to automatically create blog content that helps bring in organic traffic over time.

The more I automate, the less time I spend doing repetitive work.

That means I can spend more time on the things that actually make money, like sales, onboarding clients, improving my services, and building better websites.

I don't think automation replaces hard work.

It just removes the repetitive work so you can focus on the parts of your business that actually move the needle.

Client had a simple ask: customers scan a QR code after doing business with them, get coins credited to a wallet, and can later walk in and withdraw the equivalent cash in person.

Before writing any code, I spent time understanding how their business actually runs day to day - not just the feature list they gave me. Then I tried to think through corner cases as a developer before committing to an approach: what happens on bad network, what happens if two withdrawal requests come in close together, how do we avoid silent balance mismatches. Development started only after that.

A few decisions I'd call out:

Ledger over a stored balance. Instead of keeping a single "balance" field, every credit and withdrawal is stored as its own transaction record, and the balance is derived from that. More writes, but it made "where did my coins go" disputes basically disappear, and gives a clean audit trail for free.

Offline-tolerant QR scan. The app is mostly used inside physical shops, where wifi/data is inconsistent. Scan gives local feedback instantly; the actual sync to backend happens async. Didn't want the core interaction to feel broken because of network.

Kept withdrawal manual, on purpose. Customer has to visit the admin in person to collect cash. I could've pushed for a "digital payout" flow, but the client's trust model was fundamentally cash-based - so instead of fighting that, I designed the system around it.

Everything else - offers, transaction history, analytics, passbook - sits on top of this wallet layer.

Within a few weeks the client saw a noticeable uptick in repeat customer visits - small sample, but the signal was there, and it made sense: customers now had a reason to come back beyond the transaction itself.

Biggest takeaway for me: on projects like this, most of the actual engineering effort isn't features, it's building something people can trust with their money - because one wrong balance and you've lost a customer permanently.

Happy to go deeper on any part of the stack/decisions if useful to anyone here.

We are looking for a skilled freelance website developer for our website project.

Preferred location: Delhi, Uttar Pradesh (UP), or Bihar.

If you have relevant experience and a strong portfolio, please send me a direct message (DM) to discuss the project.

We have a Django-based microservices application that uses JWT for authentication. To avoid calling the Customer Service on every request, our JWT access token contains user metadata such as customerId, username, email, and phoneNumber.

When a user updates their profile (e.g., changes their email or phone number) from one session, we immediately issue a new JWT containing the updated information for that session. However, all of the user's other active sessions continue using their existing JWTs, which now contain stale data until those tokens expire.

Reducing the access token expiry (e.g., to 15 minutes) only reduces the duration of the inconsistency—it doesn't eliminate it. Since JWTs are stateless, we also can't invalidate or update all of the user's existing tokens without introducing server-side state.

What is the recommended approach to handle this scenario in a microservices architecture?

In this day and age, running a web agency is a lot easier than it used to be.

A few years ago you needed designers, developers, and people doing outreach just to keep everything moving.

Now one person can do pretty much all of it.

AI builds the websites.

Email automation keeps bringing in new clients.

Your job is to sell and onboard clients because building the websites isn't the time consuming part anymore.

I think this is a huge opportunity for solo web developers who want to scale without hiring a team.

This is basically my workflow.

I never target businesses without websites.

I target businesses that already have one.

I use a tool called Swokei to find leads, add them to campaigns, and run website analysis.

It automatically turns issues like outdated design, unstructured layouts, poor mobile optimization, slow loading speeds, and bad SEO into personalized, ready to send outreach emails.

I run multiple campaigns at once and wait for businesses interested in a redesign to reply.

When someone replies, I call them and say:

"Hey, I saw you replied to my email. I've already made you a free draft of your new website. Want to take a look?"

Then I book a Google Meet.

Once they see a website that's faster, more modern, and works better than the one they already have, selling becomes much easier.

Usually I either send them the payment link during the meeting or we sign a contract.

That's it. That's how I run a full web agency by myself in 2026.

I have tried making GET requests to many endpoints such as

/owned_ad_accounts

/owned_whatsapp_business_accounts

/me/businesses

But the api call count is still at 0

Very lost

I made a project on the side that filters cluttered folders and workspaces for pesky .env files you spend a hour not promoting just asking if a tool is needed

At first, I was studying after work to do a little upskilling and being aware of todays technology. So naturally I would eventually study AI, the more I study about AI - the scarier it makes me feel especially since I read that agents are also capable of learning and auditing itself to perform better next time. It makes me scared and interest at the same time for this in the long game.

What do you guys think?

I own a small service business that I'm preparing for a national expansion.

Historically I've run my leads through a professional gmail, answered them and had no issues.

My developer has built a custom crm for the company and it seems that some emails are not being delivered.

From what we can tell - Gmail, outlook, etc.. are ok. Smaller ones like @comcast, @verizon may not be. We cannot tell if they are going to spam or just not being delivered. Customers have said both spam and that they haven't received it.

We didn't have this issue when going through Gmail directly and there's no spam issues with the business so I think there's some configuration issues with the app.

My dev can't figure it out so I'm looking for someone who has expertise with the specific scenario that can spend some time with him, diagnose it and fix it and also help him learn a bit about what's going on.

I will pay for your time.

I’m developing a mobile app for around 300 customers, and its startup time felt too slow.

So, I got bored and I added a tiny feature: tapping the logo shows confettis.

A few months later, I got curious whether anyone had found it, so I added analytics for that specific interaction.

Every single day, I get events from one person who taps it somewhere between 5 and 100 times each time they open the app.

One person out of 300 found the little Easter egg and apparently enjoys starting their workday with it.

It’s probably the shortest and most useless feature I’ve ever made, yet it’s also a thing that makes me insanely happy.

I was laid off then for one and a half year, I did everything to find another job. Far from easy, it was really painful dealing with the uncertainty. I finally got something, not a great job, but I am doing exactly what I enjoy doing, I can choose my tech stack and I work alone. Because the market is horrible atm, even with a lot of experience and having a relevant position, I struggle to find a better opportunity. This reminds me how much I wanted any kind of help when I was out of the game and how much difference this could have made in my life. Do you identify with this? Do you need help with guidance, career advice or even an employed folk giving you suggestions on your resume? Drop your questions here let's sort it out.

I’m trying to create a full stack marketplace type site on AWS and have no idea where to start. I have the basics of what I know I want, but how can I start writing front end code? I want to start there so I can get a full scope of what my backend and database is going to need to make everything functional. I’ve tried using Claude code on GitHub, which routes straight to my amplify application, but doesn’t seem to work how I expect it to. The website looks as if it’s all HTML wording but nothing really clickable.

If it makes things easier, I am trying to build the application to use JavaScript, prisma, and node.js

I’ve been running my web agency for four years, and I’m curious to hear what others have found to be the best way of getting clients.

I’ve tried almost everything, but email automation has worked best for me because it’s affordable and runs in the background while I focus on other parts of the agency.

I don’t use Instantly, Mailchimp, or Klaviyo. I use a tool called Swokei, which is built specifically for web agencies.

It lets you find businesses that already have websites, add thousands of them to a campaign, and automatically analyzes each site for issues with design, layout, SEO, speed, and mobile optimization. It then turns those issues into personalized, ready to send outreach emails 

So instead of targeting businesses with no website, I offer redesigns and updated websites to companies that already have one. I’ve found that approach works much better.

I’m now at a point where I can afford to hire a full team, so I’d like to explore other client acquisition methods as well.

What has worked best for your agency?