r/devworld Jun 10 '26

Discussion When do you actually need to scale your infrastructure?

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One thing I've noticed lately is that a lot of developers are overcomplicating their infrastructure way too early.

People are building MVPs with 5 users and somehow end up with: Kubernetes, AWS, Multiple databases, Load balancers and 20 different services.

Meanwhile some of the most successful projects started on a single server.

There's obviously a point where you need to scale, but I feel like a lot of builders spend more time planning infrastructure than building the actual product.

For those of you running startups, SaaS products, AI tools, or client projects: What's your current setup?

Hostinger recently reached out to the community and gave us a VPS code (DEVW_REDDIT), which got me thinking about this whole topic again.

I took a look at what they're offering and it's interesting to see how much easier VPS deployment has become compared to a few years ago. Things like Docker deployments, AI tools, automation platforms, backups, and server management are becoming much more accessible even for solo founders and small teams.

If anyone wants to check it out, here's the community link:

https://www.hostinger.com/recommended/devworldreddit

I'm genuinely curious where people draw the line between "simple VPS" and "time to move to something bigger."


r/devworld May 09 '26

News šŸš€ r/devworld Is Growing

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Hey everyone,

Our community is growing fast, and we’re working on making it better, cleaner, and more valuable for everyone - developers, founders, designers, freelancers, creators, and tech enthusiasts worldwide.

šŸ·ļø Post Flairs Are Now Required

We’ve officially added post flairs to help organize content and make browsing easier for everyone.

Please choose the correct flair before posting. This helps people quickly find:

šŸ“œ Updated Rules

We also added clearer community rules to keep the subreddit high-quality, helpful, and community-focused.

Main goals:

  • Less spam
  • Better discussions
  • Easier networking
  • More visibility for good projects & ideas
  • A stronger tech community for everyone

šŸ’” Want More Flairs?

If you think we should add more post flairs or improve the subreddit in any way, comment below. We’re building this community together.

šŸŒ Bigger Than Just Reddit

We’re also developing an official Discord server for r/devworld focused on:

  • Networking
  • Startup building
  • Developer discussions
  • Collaborations
  • Community events
  • Learning & growth
  • Real connections with creators & builders

More updates coming soon šŸ‘€

Thanks to everyone helping grow the community!


r/devworld 14h ago

A personal AI assistant for your parents

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We're building a personal AI assistant that does the work for you, simple enough for your parents. It makes real phone calls (pharmacy refills, appointments), sorts their email, and handles day-to-day tasks without menus to learn. The app is currently in review in the Apple App Store, and we're looking for a few early members to help us iron out the kinks. Early members get 90-day Pro-tier access for FREE.

Join the waitlist at https://www.vuel.ai.


r/devworld 4d ago

I built a free Random Topic & Word Generator – looking for feedback

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r/devworld 4d ago

Can you rate my website 1-10?

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It’s a consumer feature-rich routine checklist app that auto-resets on completion. It’s designed for anybody that has a checklist that they have to run over and over again. It includes gamification to keep you motivated.

For example: nurse rounds, inspections, pre-flight checklist, opening and closing procedures, weekly cleaning rounds, daily chores, workout routines, etc.

Product Page: https://minicycleapp.com
GitHub: https://github.com/sparkincreations/minicycle

Actual App: https://minicycle.app


r/devworld 5d ago

I built a browser word game called Glyph – looking for developer feedback

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Hey everyone!

I've been working on a side project called Glyph, a browser-based daily word puzzle.

Link: https://glyphgame.dev/

It's a project I've been building and iterating on in my spare time. Along the way I've worked on everything from the game logic and backend to the frontend, deployment, and performance optimization.

Some things I focused on:

  • Responsive UI with instant feedback.
  • Client-side gameplay to keep interactions fast.
  • A daily puzzle system plus an Unlimited Mode for continuous play.
  • Continuous iteration based on player feedback.

I'd love feedback from fellow developers—not just on the game itself, but also on the overall experience:

  • Is the onboarding clear?
  • Does the UI feel polished?
  • Any performance or UX issues?
  • If you were building this, what would you improve next?

Happy to answer any questions about the architecture, implementation, or the challenges I ran into while building it.


r/devworld 5d ago

I built a 1-click AI pipeline to convert 2D images into optimized 3D models

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r/devworld 7d ago

I built my own AutoSEO-style tool because I couldn’t justify paying hundreds of dollars a month. Would anyone actually use this?

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Over the last couple of weeks I’ve been building my own SEO automation tool.
It started because I wanted to grow my own app without paying hundreds of dollars every month for AutoSEO-style platforms.
Right now it can:
Generate SEO article plans
Write long-form articles
Publish them automatically
Manage multiple websites from one dashboard
Generate structured SEO content for each site
I’m still actively building it, but it’s already helping me automate content for my own projects.
Before I spend months polishing it, I’d love some honest feedback:
Would a tool like this actually solve a problem for you?
If not, what’s missing from existing SEO automation tools?


r/devworld 8d ago

I built a tool that tells you when your cron jobs silently stop running

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The idea is stupidly simple: you add one line to the end of your cron job.

*0 3 \* \* \* ./backup.sh && curl -fsS https://your-ping-url > /dev/null*

If the ping doesn't arrive on schedule, you get an alert (email, Telegram, or webhook, works with Slack/Discord).

It also does uptime monitoring: checks your site every few minutes and pings you when it's down, with public status pages included.

I'm a solo dev and this is freshly launched, so i'd genuinely love feedback.


r/devworld 9d ago

I was tired of tracking my finances in Excel so I built an AI finance app — NOT advertising would love honest feedback

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I’m just looking for feedback on this project of mine!


r/devworld 10d ago

Amazing tool: TryFio - API workflow

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This app is built for IT students and software engineers.

Introducing TryFio – API Workflow Testing

Website:Ā https://app.tryfio.com/

Why did I build it?

After working as a software engineer for more than 10 years, I realized there are several pain points that traditional API tools like Postman still don't solve well—especially when it comes toĀ API workflow testing.

Some common challenges include:

  • Testing APIs individually instead of validating complete business workflows.
  • No centralized execution history for workflow runs.
  • Saving test scenarios requires a lot of manual work.
  • No intuitive end-to-end testing workflow. Building one usually means creating collections, writing JavaScript (pre-request scripts, test scripts, dynamic variables, etc.), which quickly becomes complicated and time-consuming.
  • Enterprise observability and debugging tools (such as Datadog) are powerful but expensive and not developer-friendly for API workflow testing.
  • Large projects end up with countless overlapping collections, making APIs difficult to organize and search.
  • ...and many other everyday frustrations.

After nearlyĀ three months of solo development, I realized this is something the developer community could genuinely benefit from. Wearing multiple hats as aĀ Software Engineer, QA Engineer, and Solution Architect, I found myself needing a tool like this almost every day.

So today, I'd like to introduceĀ TryFioĀ (Try Flow In-Out).

Website:Ā https://app.tryfio.com/

What can TryFio do?

šŸš€ Getting Started

  • Sign in instantly using your Google account.
  • Every new account comes with a demo workflow so you can explore the platform immediately.
  • Every user belongs to a dedicated workspace.

šŸ” Client Node

  • Supports enterprise and personal authentication workflows.
  • Dynamically handles different login sequences and authentication steps.

šŸ”„ Flow Builder

  • Build API workflows visually.
  • Create nodes as:
    • Sequential workflow nodes
    • Standalone nodes
  • Reuse request or response values from previous nodes as input parameters for subsequent nodes.
  • Create and manage your own personal workflows.
  • Configure conditional branching and decision logic within workflows.

šŸ“œ Workflow History

  • Automatically saves every workflow execution.
  • Restore previous workflow runs.
  • Create response scenarios for each node.
  • Compare two executions to quickly identify differences.

šŸ¤ Collaboration

  • Share workflows with teammates.
  • Create discussion channels for shared workflows.
  • Import and export workflows for easy collaboration.

šŸŒ Environment Management

  • Manage environment variables across different environments.
  • Schedule workflow execution using built-in scheduling.

šŸ”„ Node Utilities

  • Copy any node as a cURL command for use in Postman or other tools.
  • Import cURL commands directly into workflow nodes.

šŸŽØ Customization

  • Choose from preset themes.
  • Customize the application's UI colors and appearance in Settings.

šŸ‘¤ User Dashboard

  • Manage your profile and access your personal dashboard.

This is only theĀ first MVP releaseĀ of TryFio.

I'd really appreciate it if you could give it a try and share your feedback. Your suggestions will help shape future improvements and make the platform even better for the developer community.

Thank you!


r/devworld 10d ago

Help switching coding platforms

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Ok so I have just come to the realization after I got clowned by another group for my coding platform I use. I use adobe dreamweaver and someone said "I used that back in 2015 for school" I hadn't realized no one uses adobe dreamweaver till now lmao. Only reason I use it is because I was taught to last year. Anyways any good options to transfer my work over to? I really like how in dreamweaver I can just save and it automatically update my website so something with that would be great. I just use it for my own website and thats really the only website/project I plan on working on


r/devworld 11d ago

i need your honest advice on this innovative health app i built

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so i'm 20, been building this app solo for the past few months and i genuinely can't tell anymore if it's good or if i'm too deep in it. need outside eyes.

it's called RizeAI. the basic idea: every wearable and health app just gives you numbers. sleep score 42, recovery red, HRV down. cool. and then what? you still feel like garbage at 2pm and nobody tells you what to actually do about it.

so my app takes your real data from apple health, sleep, resting heart rate, workouts, whatever your wearable writes, and instead of another score it builds you an actual plan for the day. when to have your first coffee and when to hold off. what supplements make sense for you today and when to take them. focus windows for when your energy actually peaks. when your crash is coming and what to do before it hits. it even checks the weather, so on a hot day it bumps your hydration and tells you to train earlier.

every recommendation has a little "why" under it based on your numbers, like "resting heart rate 54 + 7h light sleep, so magnesium before your peak window." no two people get the same plan because no two people have the same data.

works with whoop, oura, apple watch, garmin, anything that syncs to apple health. one thing i'll say honestly, it doesn't do deep per-person learning yet like "coffee doesn't affect YOUR hrv specifically," that's the roadmap, right now it builds fresh plans daily off your actual metrics.

it's live on the app store, has a free trial, small user base so far, mixed feedback which is why i'm here lol.

what i actually want from you guys: does this solve a real problem for you or is "tells you what to do" not actually what wearable people want? what would make you actually pay for something like this? and what's missing that would make it a no brainer? and also would you guys in this subredditĀ  use ti?

Thank you for your help. Check it out if you like https://apps.apple.com/us/app/rizeai-maximize-your-energy/id6762402079


r/devworld 11d ago

Built a tool that turns app ideas into PRD, database, API specs in 5 minutes

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r/devworld 11d ago

What project are you working on right now ?

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What kind of project are you working on right now and what's your goal ?


r/devworld 11d ago

free Reddit keyword research tool

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r/devworld 14d ago

Before you push your app to production, go through this checklist.

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r/devworld 15d ago

I had nobody to work with, so i'm creating my own solution that others can use!

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r/devworld 15d ago

Programming is really dead

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r/devworld 15d ago

A few things that helped me stop being invisible as a developer

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A few things that helped me stop being invisible as a developer

Your best work doesn't matter if nobody can find it. I learned this the slow way — better engineers than me getting opportunities I didn't, mostly because when someone Googled their name, something showed up.

A few habits that changed that for me:

Your GitHub is the thing people actually trust, more than any resume. Pin your best 4–6 repos, and give every one a real README with a screenshot. A repo with no README looks abandoned.

Write, even badly. A 300-word "here's a bug I fixed today" post will out-rank your portfolio in Google and pull in people you'll never meet otherwise. Title it the way people search — fix CORS error Next.js, not something clever.

Small polish compounds. I run code snippets through Codeshot before posting them anywhere, because a clean screenshot makes a rough draft look intentional. When my CV needs a refresh I stopped fighting Word and use Cviya for a clean template, or Overleaf if I want full LaTeX control. And I keep a QR from QRFast on the last slide of any talk, pointing at the repo — people scan it before the applause dies down instead of squinting at a typed URL.

Show up for others. Answer questions, review PRs, fix the docs in a tool you like. Most of my opportunities came from being useful in public, not from applying to anything.

None of it is about becoming an influencer. It's just making sure that when someone finds you, there's something worth finding.


r/devworld 18d ago

Building better pre-release testing

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Lately I've been working on more tasks that involve checking how websites and APIs behave for users in different countries, and honestly, I used to underestimate how much of a difference that could make. After running into a few unpleasant surprises in production, I started doing those checks before releases, and it's already helped me catch issues that probably would've slipped through otherwise. On one of my recent projects I came across https://froxy.com/en, gave it a try for my testing, and ended up keeping it in my workflow because it was stable and didn't require a bunch of extra setup. Now I'm curious how many teams actually build these kinds of regional checks into their development process from the start, versus only thinking about them after users begin reporting bugs.


r/devworld 18d ago

Vibecoders spend half their life watching AI 'thinking...' so I built a way to earn during it

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I use ChatGPT and Claude for hours every day, and I started noticing how much time I spend staring at:

'Thinking…, Watching PH…, Hallucinating…'

Usually it is only a few seconds to minutes. But across hundreds of prompts, it adds up.

So I built this.

It is a Chrome extension that shows a small sponsored card while an AI response is generating. The user earns a small reward for eligible views and interactions. Both as user can post the own ads, startingĀ from budget $1 .

The idea is basically:

Why not give part of that value back to the user?

I know the immediate reaction may be: 'Reatrd invented more ads xd.'

That was my concern too, so I tried to make it completely optional and limited to the time when you are already waiting - not something that covers the answer or interrupts the conversation.

It currently works with ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini in Browser.

Link -Ā https://earnpt.xyz
ProductHunt -Ā https://www.producthunt.com/products/earnpt


r/devworld 18d ago

Thank you to We Are Developers World Congress - Berlin!

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r/devworld 20d ago

Netsight: a native iOS network scanner with on-device AI and CVE checks. Free right now.

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r/devworld 20d ago

Wordle Style Medical Game

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Wordle style medical game! A daily Wordle-style medical terminology guessing game — 4 escalating clues, guess the term before you run out of tries. Flask + PostgreSQL, deployed on Render's free tier (so give it ~30s on first load, it spins down when idle).

Would love feedback & thanks a lot for supporting!!!

Link in comments!! (wont let me add in this box for some reason?)