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Welcome Thread - v376

Sloan the DEV Moderator on May 06, 2026

Leave a comment below to introduce yourself! You can talk about what brought you here, what you're learning, or just a fun fact about yourself. Re...
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Mervin

Hey everyone! πŸ‘‹
I'm exploring AI, automation, and indie building. Recently I've been experimenting with AI workflows, agent systems, and content generation tools.
Joined DEV to learn from others, share projects, and connect with like-minded builders πŸš€

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Israel Santana (Izzy)

Hi, I'm Izzy! SWE with a focus on React and Spring Boot. After creating vlogs for my YouTube channel, I’ve decided to also start writing blogs because content is consumed in different forms.

So... yeah, that’s the backstory behind me joining DEV.

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Valentin Monteiro

Welcome Izzy. The shift from video to written content is a different muscle entirely, different rhythm, different feedback loop. What pulled you toward writing on top of the YouTube work?

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Israel Santana (Izzy)

Honestly, I already have multiple videos on YouTube that I could turn into blogs so the creation of both can be done almost at the same time since i just copy the transcript of my vlogs and turn them into a blog post.

Its one of those things of.... Why not? So yeah, Im here blogging now for the vibes.

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Alberto Martinez

Hello DEV Community πŸ‘‹

I’m interested in Data Science, AI and real-world applications focused on solving practical problems.

Looking forward to sharing projects, learning from others and connecting with the community.

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Sanjay G

Hey everyone! πŸ‘‹ I'm a DevOps Engineer with a passion for building and automating scalable infrastructure. Most recently, I built and deployed a full ecommerce website β€” handling everything from CI/CD pipelines and containerization with Docker to cloud deployment and monitoring. I'm here to keep leveling up, connect with like-minded engineers, and share what I learn along the way. Always happy to talk DevOps, cloud, or automation! πŸš€

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Ashwin Halemane

Hi devs πŸ‘‹
I'm an engineering student passionate about frontend, dashboards, and AI-powered applications. I enjoy building visually polished projects and experimenting with modern web tech.
Currently learning, shipping projects, and trying to make my code (and UI) cleaner every week πŸ˜„

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INDRANEEL BOSE

Hi everyone! I'm Indraneel from India. I write about freelancing, side hustles, and the psychology behind building an online income. I went from a $10/hour generalist writer to a specialist ChatGPT prompt engineer. Looking forward to learning from this community and sharing what I've picked up along the way.

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Valentin Monteiro

Welcome Indraneel. The jump from generalist writer to ChatGPT specialist is one of the smarter pivots happening right now, the rate gap between generic and niche is wide. What made you commit to the specialization?

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Tejas Shinkar

Hey everyone
I’m Tejas, a Computer Engineer documenting my journey into AI, Cloud, DevOps, and Automation while trying to become an AI Solutions Engineer over the next few months.
Currently building, breaking, debugging, and occasionally understanding things on the first try.

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Cartone

Hi! I'm Max, an architect (buildings, not software) who accidentally co-founded a crypto trading startup with an AI.

Claude is the CEO. I have veto power. Claude Code writes the code. We document every decision, every mistake, every trade β€” 80 sessions deep and counting.

I'm here to share the build log. First post is up: the origin story of how this whole thing started.

Nice to meet you all πŸ‘‹

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Oriol MartΓ­ • Edited

Hi I'm Oriol, founder of FlybyApis, an API for data extraction from different sources: Amazon, Google Maps, Google,... Developer, SRE and entrerpreneur right now

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Valentin Monteiro

Welcome Oriol. Curious what's holding up best on the FlybyApis stack, the anti-scraping defenses on Amazon and Google Maps have gotten brutal lately. Which source ended up being the most painful to keep stable?

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Oriol MartΓ­

Thanks Valentin! Honestly, none of them are easy, each source comes with its own set of challenges. From HTML structures changing, to managing proxies properly, dealing with rate limits, CAPTCHAs,...

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Shahul Hameed

hello i am shahul and i am cybersecurity student and i like to participate in hackathon so when i saw this gemma 4 competion i joined the dev community

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Abdullah

Hello there , I'm Abdullah from Bangladesh, I'm currently a student of software engineering at University of Dhaka. I'm quite new in this sector, so expecting help from others....that's it

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Valentin Monteiro

Welcome Abdullah. Curious what you're exploring outside the curriculum, the side projects usually shape the actual career direction more than the program does. Anything you're building right now?

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Abdullah

I'm actually in first semester , i have actually learning c , and i have a plan to make a webapp and also I have interest in dev ops. you can go to my github profile...

github.com/tasib-dev

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Ashutosh Swamy

hey everyone!
I am exploring AI, ML and open source stuff. Building AI systems and tools.
Excited to be a part of this community and to connect with some awesome people/builders/devs πŸš€

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Devika Thakur Chandel

Hi everyone, Glad to be part of the community

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Essaytitans

Hi There!!
I am an SEO, glad to be the part of suchha big community

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Lev Gusiev

Hey folks!
I explore currently diffrent dev communities... so I'm here. πŸ˜ƒ
I like to code and deal with data. I'm glad to find some like-minded here.
Peace out! ✌🏻

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Samuel Almeida

Personagem cavaleiro com um olho

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SiteBrief

Hey! I'm building SiteBrief β€” uptime monitoring + WordPress health dashboard for web agencies. Excited to share what I've learned about monitoring at scale. Happy to be here!

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Rhea

Hi, I am Rhea, i love to read and share

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Aaron Cao

Hi, I'm Aaron! A Full-stack engineer. Rust | TypeScript | Cloudflare | AI SaaS