Welcome Thread - v369

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[Ben Halpern The DEV Team]

Welcome everyone!!

[Thales Horta]

Hello People!

Nice to meet you all, looking forward for some good conversation.

[Ben Halpern The DEV Team]

Hello!

[Ilya Gordey]

Hey! I'm Ilya, based in Thailand 🇹🇭

Been building consumer products for about 5 years. Started with mobile apps, ended up deep in AI agents. Somewhere along the way I realized I'd stopped writing most of the code — agents were doing it. Then I stopped writing most of the copy. Then the ad campaigns. Then the trades.

Now I run a small venture studio where four AI agents basically operate the business while I figure out what to build next. It's a weird feeling — somewhere between liberating and slightly existential.

Currently obsessed with one question: what happens when you give an AI agent a real budget and just let it run? Not a tool. An entity with money and a goal.

Building in public, sharing what actually works (and what doesn't): twitter.com/ilyagordey 👋

[Tia]

That's funny you say that I was just speaking about that yesterday.

[Ogunleye Itunu Michael]

hello

[Neo]

Hi!

[Naveen]

Hi Ben, Thanks for the welcome

[Asim Gujjar]

Hy

[Bejie Paulo Aclao]

thanks!

[ADOKS_JOHN]

thanks

[Bianca Clifford]

Hello

[Kholofelo Robyn Rababalela]

Thanks!

[zrigger]

Hello~

[Ogunleye Itunu Michael]

hi

[Resmon Rama Rondonuwu]

👋 hello

[Paolo Brungola]

thanks!

[Bianca Clifford]

Hello

[1xmint]

Hello thanks

[Yosua M. Wowor]

Hello!

[Resmon Rama Rondonuwu]

👋

[Amine Maaout]

Merci Ben

[Eastra]

Hey everyone! I'm Eastra, working in ops at an early-stage SaaS team building QCCBot Cloud Phone — a cloud-based Android infrastructure platform with AI Agent integration. Exploring how AI can act inside real mobile environments, not just browsers. Here to learn, share, and connect with builders thinking about automation and cloud infrastructure. Happy to be here! 🙌

[Muhammad Zain Shabbir]

thats wonderful Eastra. I hope that your SaaS idea is a super power

[Florent Cleron]

Hey everyone!

I’m Florent, a French freelance Senior Frontend Developer.
I build fast, accessible, and polished web experiences, with a strong focus on animation, performance, and user experience.
I enjoy crafting immersive interfaces with tools like GSAP and Three.js, and I’m here to share what I learn, explore creative development, and connect with other developers.

[Valentin Monteiro]

Salut Florent, si tu veux connecter n'hesite pas ! Ici mon linkedin

[Oliver Pitts]

Hey everyone! 👋

I’m an AI SEO specialist and Web Development expert. I joined this community to connect with like-minded people, share insights, and learn from others in the space.

I usually focus on breaking down SEO strategies, comparing different companies, and highlighting top-performing agencies that are genuinely delivering results for their clients. I love analyzing what works (and what doesn’t) in real-world projects.

Always happy to discuss AI in SEO, website performance, or growth strategies so feel free to say hi or ask anything!

Fun fact: I enjoy digging into competitor strategies more than watching Netflix 😄

[Ali Reza Habibi]

Hey Oliver!
Great to see you here.
I’m Ali Reza, I recently joined this community too.
Glad to have you on board! Maybe I can pick your brain and borrow some of those magical SEO skills 😅

[Stephan Joachim Augustin]

Great to see a focus on real-world performance.

[Ali Reza Habibi]

Hey. Do you have some time?
I need your help on something

[Oliver Pitts]

Yeah Sure

[Ali Reza Habibi]

Well, I recently built my portfolio and now I'm tackling the SEO side of things to make sure I rank for my own name. The good news is that the site is actually indexing and showing up on Google! But I'm running into a weird issue with how the search result is displaying.

Instead of showing "Ali Reza Habibi" as the site name, Google is using my domain, "ahabibi.dev", as the source name. For example, when you search Wikipedia, the result header says "Wikipedia"—but mine just says "ahabibi.dev".

I feel like I've done everything right to tell Google what the name should be. I set up my metadata with the proper title and siteName in OpenGraph. I also added JSON-LD structured data for both a Person and a WebSite, where I explicitly set "name": "Ali Reza Habibi". I've got a sitemap.xml and robots.txt all set up, and everything is verified and submitted through Google Search Console.

I manually requested indexing about 24 hours ago. So my main question is: does Google just need more time to process the structured data and swap the domain out for my actual name? (I also noticed my favicon isn't showing up in search yet, so I'm wondering if it's all just part of the same initial delay).

Would love your take on this—am I missing a signal, or do I just need to be patient?

Thanks,

[Valentin Monteiro]

GM everyone! 👋

I'm Valentin, a Data & AI Consultant working remotely from Tbilisi, Georgia. I joined this community to share what I learn, connect with builders, and give back to the dev ecosystem that helped me get started.

I focus on helping companies make sense of their data and integrate AI into their operations, data strategy, dashboards, generative AI, and process automation. My stack: Python, SQL, BigQuery, LangChain, n8n, and whatever gets the job done.

Before going independent, I was a Business Analyst at Teleperformance on a Google project building dashboards, automating reporting (saved 10h/week of manual work), and digging into sales data. That's where I learned that the best data work is the kind that makes people's jobs easier.

I usually write about practical data & AI topics: real-world automation, LLM integration, and lessons learned from consulting. No fluff, just stuff that works.

Always happy to chat about Python, data pipelines, AI strategy, or the freelance life feel free to say hi!

Fun fact: I discovered data during the 2020 lockdown through a French live stream and never looked back 🚀

[sam jha]

GM Valentin! Your profile reads like a lot of overlap with what I'm working on — Python, automation, making people's jobs easier. I'm building an open-source CLI called Folder Intelligence that reads actual file content (PDFs, Word docs, images via OCR) and renames/organizes them intelligently, no cloud AI required. The "automation that saves 10h/week" framing resonates a lot — that's exactly how I think about CLI tooling. Would love to see what you write about LangChain and n8n workflows — following you now. Feel free to check out my post here if you're curious about the file intelligence angle: dev.to/sam_jha_054aa0cbf7a190601

[Muhammad Zain Shabbir]

wow, I would love to discuss topics on AI with you.

[Valentin Monteiro]

Hey Muhammad, there's a canal that I can contact you to ?

[Kristin]

Hi! 👋

I'm Kristin from Israel — trader by day, builder by night. Just published my first article about building an AI trading ecosystem with Claude and MCP. No coding background, all built with AI assistance in 28 days.

Excited to be here and learn from everyone!

[Roman Dubinin]

Hey — I'm Roman — frontend team lead, actively working on AI tooling and writing about multi-agent systems. The failure modes, specifically: hallucination, sycophancy, directive conflict, silent fallbacks that keep the transcript clean while the provenance is fabricated.

[Arjun Singh]

I have a question
hello,
I am developing a website. I know nothing about web dev. I have created in in an index.html format, connected it to Github and Vercel, deployed as a static website. I really want to connect an AI to one of the pages, where it can actively generate answers.

ChatGPT said to use 'API's? in the backend?

Help pls

[sam jha]

Hey Arjun! Great question — ChatGPT is right that you need an API, but here's the simple version:

Since your site is static (just HTML on Vercel), you don't need a separate backend to start. The easiest approach is to call the OpenAI API directly from JavaScript in your browser. Here's the basic pattern:

1. Get an API key from platform.openai.com
2. Add a <script> in your HTML that sends the user's question to OpenAI's API using fetch()
3. Display the response on your page

The one caveat: don't put your API key directly in HTML (it's public). For a quick demo that's fine, but for a real site you'd want a tiny serverless function on Vercel to keep the key secret.

Vercel actually makes this really easy — you can add a serverless function in a /api folder that proxies your OpenAI call. No separate server needed!

Hope that helps — feel free to reply with more questions.

[Arjun Singh]

I am actually very confused.

So I got AI to code in a POST request to /api ,so front-end is supposedly done. It tells me to do this:
Create a Vercel Serverless Function
In your repo, add a new file:

/api/oscar-explains.js
This is where you call OpenAI. Your client will call /api/oscar-explains.

I have no idea how to do this. Where do I click in Vercel for this...

But I have added the environmental variable of the API key.

So how do I do the serverless function?

[Arjun Singh]

Cheers, working on this now

[Othmane El ouarzazi]

Hey devs,

I joined because i really need your feedback on this side project.
I built Covexy.com, a proactive AI for macOS that gives you insights without you asking. It watches your screen, understands your context, and speaks up only when it finds something worth your attention.

Is this something you would actually use? Would love honest opinions.

[Ian Gitonga]

Ahoy!
I'm a backend developer and now curious about Infrastructure as Code. Really excited to
learn and share especially with other devs. Also share you playlists i always have Spotify playing in the background 😄.