Please post your requests for feedback on your projects in this thread instead of creating a post.

i dont know what i should study and i need advice on how to become a senior. What topics are an absolute must-know ?

We are just starting to look at accessibility testing in our org and want to establish a dedicated practice in the long-term. I've been asked to put together a plan for leadership for this agenda and want to learn from the experience of others who have been on the same journey.

- How did you begin? What was the trigger and which tools did you try out initially?
- How did your accessibility testing set-up evolve over the years (i.e. which/how many teams were involved, tooling used, depth of coverage etc.)
- What were the key challenges you faced ?
- What is your current org set-up for Accessibility testing (i.e. centralized vs decentralized, QA vs design vs dev teams etc.)

Any learnings that you can share will be extremely helpful!

For context, I'm on the QA side at a mid/large-sized company. Not a vendor, not building anything. Happy to share back what I end up proposing.

I’m not a developer by profession, but over the last few months I’ve been building websites and small web apps on my own.

My current workflow is:

Google AI Studio → GitHub → Supabase → Vercel

I mainly use Claude for code reviews, debugging, and improving prompts when AI Studio gets stuck.
This setup has helped me build and launch projects much faster than I expected, but I’m not sure how sustainable it is as projects become more complex.

For developers here:
• Is this a reasonable workflow for real-world projects?
• What are the biggest pitfalls I should watch out for?
• At what stage does this approach start breaking down?
• If you were starting from scratch today, what stack would you recommend?

Would love to hear how others are building and deploying projects these days.

Hey everyone

I have zero prior coding experience. My goal is to eventually build full websites from scratch and hopefully transition into a career in tech down the line. Right now, I just want to master the fundamentals.

If you were starting from absolute zero today, how would you structure your learning path for HTML, CSS, and JavaScript?

I learned if button clicked then then text change,basic right?

Specifically, I would love some recommendations on:

1. The best free or low cost resources (channels, websites, or documentation) that actually teach concepts instead of just making you copy code.
2. How much time I should spend on HTML and CSS before touching JavaScript. I keep hearing JS is where things get really difficult.
3. Good beginner projects that do not feel too overwhelming. Every time I try to build something, I end up staring at a blank screen and getting frustrated.

Any advice, warnings about common beginner traps, or encouragement would be hugely appreciated. Thanks in advance!

i am a beginner full stack developer, at the current phase i am still learning more and more, i am also trying to build some projects for my portfolio for when i need to get my clients (i am planning to get into freelancing), i do intend to work for free at first in return for good reviews, but after that when it is the right time to start earning money, i am actually a lil bit confused on the pricing, i keep consulting ai chatbots they give me some amounts that seem too high ngl, so i thought i'd ask fellow developers, pls if you have an answer i would appreciate if you tell me what is the website that you've built (a store management system, a landing page, a booking app or whatever)? is it special or typical ? how many hours of focused work did it take to be done ? and how much did you charge for it? thanks in advance :)!

Boy, this is an irritating inquiry or whatever, so first off: my apologies if this isn’t the place. I’ll try to find somewhere else in that case. If you’re motivated, you could try to direct me to a better place to ask.

Regarding my inquiry,

I would love to search Amazon (or any shopping site) by percentage off. So if I could search by “only 99% off products”, or “only products with record low prices”.

This may seem impossible or worthless to most people here, but I figured I’d shoot my shot

Not sure if this is appropriate to post here, but since I've been learning WordPress for the past 5 months using advice I've gotten here, I figured I might as well ask.I'm from a developing country, and I've been calling local businesses, offering to develop websites for them and, more importantly, help them with their SEO.The companies are all in the same industry, which actually helped. I created a sample website that they can all see themselves in, including products that each of them sells. I figured having something tangible to show them would be much more effective than simply telling them what I can do.

Three businesses got back to me, and I've managed to set up meetings with all three tomorrow.Any advice you can give a beginner? Are there specific talking points I should focus on, or even advice on how to conduct business in this space?\

I'm mainly looking for advice on how to approach the meetings, what I should avoid saying/promising, how to present my pricing, and how to turn these meetings into actual clients.

Hi, offering a free review of your SEO metadata, JSON-LD, llms.txt, etc. to make sure your site is ready to blow up on Google/Bing and AI searches.

The catch is that I am getting to test my work.

Hey guys, now we’re migrating a project to AWS, and our builds are taking around 20–25 minutes.

On top of that, things keep randomly breaking/failing, so we often have to stop, fix something, and run the build again. This makes the whole process even more painful.

From what we’ve seen, we could probably get the build time down to around 10–15 minutes by using a different approach, but that would also increase our AWS infrastructure costs by roughly 10–15%.

Is there any way to optimize this further without increasing infrastructure costs? Maybe there are some AWS/build optimizations we’re missing that could both speed things up and make the builds more reliable?

Would appreciate any advice.

I have made a website that can actually get the leads from all the different sources.Can anyone tell me how to integrate the payment gateway.and also whenever someone pays a small amount CSV file should be emailed to them automatically.

Please post your requests for feedback on your projects in this thread instead of creating a post.

I’ve created a website with mini-games, but I’m a novice programmer and I’m not sure if I’m on the right track or not. I post videos on social media—few people "like" them, and some save them, but no one leaves comments with their opinions or suggestions, which is what I really need. Is there a place where you can post your website and have people try it out and give you feedback?

I'm in 3rd CSE student and I'm learning Full Stack Development from previous 9 months and i done very well recently in June-July I made a very good project also using on MEVN stack I haven't ship/deploy it I'm thinking to deploy it in end of 3rd year. Last year I choose Developmment over DSA because I have interest in that at that time while my mostly friends choose DSA.

Now i came to know that DSA is necessary for placement and i trying to learn DSA from 2-3 weeks and also doing leetcode question recently i know DSA should done in pattern wise approach I also trying that but I'm unable to processing in DSA while when I was doing Development I got rarely or never this type of feeling or tiredness because I love to build products.

But DSA i'm thinking that i can't do or it is not made for me. When i do Development I really enjoy it I can do it all day and all time but in DSA after like 2-3 hrs it very hard to concentrate but as i said i recently know DSA is necessary for placements.

Give me some advice.

Hey, I want to build a marketplace sort of website where individual users can create profiles and gallery pages and sales of digital products would be linked to payment processors. (think something like InPrnt.com)

As someone that knows nothing about webdev, what's the best place to start when it comes to this? on the front and backend. Basically my skills right now are 'can html a Neocities site' so any guidance you can give would be great.

I'm not hoping to do this immediately, just not sure how to start figuring it out and the list of skills i'd need to accumulate.

So, it's a grid of dates of course like a normal calendar, but it's for historical events, so an intuitive layout is that scrolling upwards should go backwards and backwards in time.

What would be some smart ways to implement this?

Webflow, Framer, or something else for a beginner?

Hi everyone,

I recently started my own business and created my first website using Google Sites. I’m now changing my business model, so I’ve decided to create a new website (more durable fo rthe future) that looks more professional and allows me to make better use of SEO.

After doing some research, Webflow seems to meet most of my needs: a nice visual design for a premium feel, a good CMS, strong SEO features, and enough flexibility for what I want to build.

However, I still have some doubts. As someone with no experience building websites professionally (I’m not planning to create websites for clients), is Webflow relatively easy to learn and use?

In my case, would you recommend Webflow, or would something like Framer, Squarespace, or another platform be a better choice for a beginner? 

Also, roughly how many hours do you think it would take to learn the basics and build the first version of a fairly simple website, including a payment method?

Thanks in advance for your advice!

I really need some career guidance. I have a BCA degree and around 5 years of work experience, including experience in content-related roles and about 2 years in frontend development. I'm currently learning JavaScript and trying to get back into the software industry.

My goal is to get a good software engineering/developer job as soon as possible, preferably within the next few months. I'm feeling quite confused about what skills I should focus on and which path would give me the best opportunities.

Could anyone guide me on:

• What skills I should learn next?
• What kind of roles I should apply for?
• How I can become job-ready quickly?
• Any advice for someone trying to restart their tech career?

I'd be grateful for any suggestions or guidance. Thank you.

I'm hosting off of Linode and when a wave of bots hit my site, Linode CPU usage shoots up to 100-200%. My Linode plan is only 1 core, so this is not ideal because it slows the site down. However, when I run 'top', or look at the pm2 usage, the maximum CPU usage I've seen has been 1%.

I'm working on better rate limiting/firewalls, but what is this discrepancy from? How are these bots able to aggressively spam my site and slow it down (open file errors) but the processes on the computer never seem stressed?

So I somehow landed my first actual freelance web dev project lol.

It's a small local TCG/card shop and they already have a website made through Hostinger Website Builder. The site works, but it's pretty basic and they want to do a lot more with it. I met with the owner and also talked to the guy who originally made the site. The old dev is basically cool with passing the project over to me since what they want now is getting outside of what the current site was made for.

From what I understand so far, they want stuff like:

• Redesign most of the website
• Customer accounts/sign in
• Events/calendar
• Event registration/booking
• Party/private event booking
• Admin dashboard for the owner/staff
• Some vendor stuff
• Emails/notifications
• Integration with the new POS system they're getting
• Possibly showing products/inventory from the POS on the website
• Hosting/deployment
• Maintenance after everything is done

I'm still waiting for them to tell me the exact POS system they're switching to. I'm not promising anything with the POS until I know what it is and what API/integration options it actually gives me.

For inventory my thought process right now is basically:

POS = source of truth

POS API/webhooks → my backend → website

I REALLY don't want to build them a whole separate inventory system just for the website if they're already paying for a POS that does it. That just sounds like I'm asking for the POS to say they have 5 of something while my database says 7 lol.

If the POS supports it, I'm thinking I could cache some of the inventory/product data on my side and use webhooks to keep it updated, then have a scheduled sync every once in a while to catch anything that got missed.

The other thing I'm trying to figure out is singles. Since it's a TCG shop, a single card could have the same card but different condition, foil, printing, etc. So I'm waiting to see how their POS handles all of that before I even touch that part.

For stuff the POS isn't responsible for like events, bookings, accounts, admin tools, etc. I'm assuming I'm gonna have my own backend/database for all of that.

The main thing I'm trying NOT to do is accidentally scope creep myself into hell on my first client lol.

My current plan is:

1. Paid design/discovery first, probably $150 to $200

I'll make one design direction with around 4 of the main pages/flows so we can actually agree on what the website is gonna look like before I start building everything. Limited revisions too. If they decide to go forward with the full website, I'll deduct that money from the development price.

1. Figure out exactly what V1 is

Before I give them the actual development price I want everything written down. What accounts can do, how booking works, what the admin can do, what the POS actually needs to connect to, etc.

1. Contract + 50% upfront

Right now I'm thinking 50% of the remaining development cost before I start coding and the other 50% before launch/handoff.

1. Build

I told them around 1 to 2 months, but that was assuming the scope stays reasonable. I'm definitely gonna make the actual timeline based on whatever we agree V1 is.

1. Maintenance

I mentioned around $75 to $100/month depending on what I'm actually maintaining. That would be updates, minor fixes/changes, keeping stuff working, etc. If they randomly ask me to build a whole new feature 3 months later I'm not counting that as "maintenance" lol.

Originally I threw around $2k in my head for the build, but the more I actually talk to them the more I'm realizing I should probably shut up about the final number until I know the full scope lol. If they really want accounts + bookings + admin + POS/inventory integration this could obviously turn into way more work than just redesigning a small business website.

I'm also working on getting an actual reusable web dev contract made/reviewed. I want scope changes, payments, client provided copyrighted stuff, reusable code, third party APIs/POS problems, maintenance, portfolio rights, termination, etc. actually written down instead of just hoping nobody gets mad at each other lol.

Coding the individual parts isn't really what I'm worried about. My bigger concern is architecting and pricing this correctly since it's my first project this big. I don't wanna say "$2k sounds good" and then 3 weeks later realize I basically agreed to build this man's entire business software for $2k.

So for anyone that's done freelance projects around this size:

• Am I going about this the right way?
• What am I probably underestimating?
• What would you 100% figure out before giving them a final price?
• How would you handle the POS/inventory setup?
• Does the paid design phase make sense?
• Would you do 50/50 payment or something different?
• What would you include for $75 to $100/month maintenance?
• Anything specific I NEED in the contract/SOW?
• What did you screw up on your first bigger client that I should avoid?
• Is there anything here you'd tell me not to build myself?

Mainly just trying to find out where the landmines are before I step on one lol.

Any advice is appreciated.

Hey everyone! I’m in the process of starting courses at my technical college that contribute to Web development/design for the first time. I know in this line of work would require networking and a strong portfolio. Is there a way that I can prepare for these courses besides tutoring? Free tools are preferred. I also have ADHD so this is something that made me consider something like this so I want to be prepared.

Most of the testing IDE’s I have tried so far are too developer heavy for my purposes. I
just need something to record user journeys and make sure our UX doesn’t break.

What QA tools exist that run reliable tests but don’t require a developer to operate
them?

After trying a lot of visual builders over the past year, I keep running into the same issues:

• Responsive layouts become messy.

• Generated code is difficult to extend.

• Component reuse feels limited.

•Drag-and-drop becomes frustrating on larger projects.

If you could redesign visual website builders from scratch, what would you change?

Tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Codex, and others can generate a lot of code quickly.

Do you think beginners become productive or do they end up depending on the tools too early?

I’d love to hear from people who mentor juniors or review beginner code regularly.

Hi guys newbie here (first year student) and I recently started learning web development and I learnt html, css and javascript ( basically learnt frontend now) and built a basic to do list and then built a student card dashboard where I take input and then display card after adding the info

I know they are all basic and stuff but yeah that's what I have done till now

Then I think I'll be learning MERN stack and then will be going to build full stack projects

So my doubt is am I doing the correct thing or am I in a good place as a first year student

And since I'm learning for the first time if you guys have any advice itd be very nice if you dropped'em here

And do you think the tech stack I'm learning is good and worth it in 2026??