Still no live demo yet… but hit a major milestone today: DevConnect can now fetch GitHub repos and support image/video uploads—despite a hell of a learning curve!
🧑💻 What’s Working (So Far):
✅ GitHub Integration: DevConnect now fetches public repos from GitHub—it feels amazing to see real code showing up in the profile!
✅ Media Uploads: Image and video uploads work (thanks, Cloudinary), even though I accidentally uploaded test videos 30 times before fixing my file-path logic.
⚠️ Challenges Along the Way:
🐞 That ONE async bug: a missing await caused duplicate uploads—my Cloudinary account saw a surge in nonsense. Debugging that definitely earned me ☕.
🧩 State management chaos: toggling between Context & Redux Toolkit had me rethinking my approach—but it's in a solid place now.
🧭 UI polish: making responsive post cards look nice on mobile took way more effort than I expected.
🎯 Why Keep Building
I'm working on DevConnect pre-launch to:
- Blend social + code sharing—so devs don’t have to juggle GitHub and Twitter separately.
- Create an early beta community, whose feedback will help shape features like comments on repos and like buttons.
Note: While there’s no live button yet, every bug fix and user test brings it closer. I’m also researching how to tease development publicly—informed by advice to build excitement early on 🧠.
💡 Can You Help?
- What feature matters most to you? Issues tracker? Project boards? Commenting on repos?
- Want to swing by the early demo? DM me—I’d appreciate any feedback.
DevConnect is still in progress: no live demo yet.
But it's already pulling real GitHub repos + uploading media.
Lots of cleanup & polish still ahead—just sharing wins and lessons early 👊.
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