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Welcome Thread - v388

Sloan the DEV Moderator on August 12, 2026

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ •

Welcome everyone to dev.to! Glad you are here and hope you are well! I am a DEV Community Moderator and my primary goal is to support everyone on dev.to and ensure everyone is having a good time!

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Feel free to introduce yourself and welcome others by replying to at least 2 people! It would be greatly appreciated! :D

Hope you are having a great summer and enjoy your stay here on DEV :D

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Abhiix0 •

Hey everyone! 👋

I'm Abhi, a B.Tech student and developer from India.

I'm here to learn, build, break things, and hopefully contribute to the community along the way.

Currently working with Python, AI, backend development, and open source. I'm also building a developer tool called Spawn to make repetitive Python project setup a little less painful. 🐍

Looking forward to learning from everyone here and meeting some fellow builders! 🚀

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Leoncio Jr Coronado •

Hi Abhi! 👋 Nice to meet you. I'm also working with Python, AI, and automation, so Spawn caught my attention. Automating repetitive project setup sounds really useful. Looking forward to seeing how the project develops. 🚀

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Abhiix0 • • Edited

Thanks Leoncio! Nice to meet a fellow Python/AI/automation person 🙌 Would love your thoughts once you've had a chance to poke around Spawn. Always looking for feedback from people working in that space.

pip install spawnio - it is

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charleseze322 •

nice, welcome aboard

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Bob Los •

hi, I just joined too. Let's do our best together

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Qassam Abumwies •

Hello everyone
I'm a teacher from Palestine who loves tech. I'm not a coder myself but i have a desire to learn and build apps that suit my own use cases. And since i can't really code and don't have the time to learn i've went down the ai coding route. I'm always ready for advice. Nice to meet you all .

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Aliaksei Zelianouski •

Apps that suit your own use cases is the category where this actually works. Which project you pick first matters more than the coding, though. I have a home automation setup I built this way and have never read a line of its code - fine, because when it breaks I flip the switch by hand. Anything where a bad result costs me something, I still end up reading what the model wrote.

Start with something where a bug is only annoying. What are you building first?

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john houser •

I am building a site for wife that documents her 'antique' items for her 'store'. She needs something to track storage location and history. I hope to have this ready for her by the time I reach the upswing of awesome.

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Qassam Abumwies •

That sounds interesting , building a physical tracking app would be very helpful for her for sure. And the history function i think would be good , maybe create a tag system to make things easier to manage. Also a storage location history , in case something goes missing you will have information at every storage location it has ever been at.

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Qassam Abumwies •

I agree, having something personalized to your own use case and fits your vision is the best category where coding using ai works best. It doesn't have to be perfect and you can make it fit your use case perfectly if you give yourself enough time to actually use the app you're building and debug it. However, bugs can be hard to debug for noncoders like me and ai isn't at the stage where there won't be any bugs or errors in the outcome. I've made a small dictionary app where students can upload a pdf/doc/txt file to the app and it would auto translate every English word into Arabic with English meaning, synonyms and antonyms. I'm also building a personal media library app (but that's a pretty huge app I've been building for the past six months.). Honestly , speaking the biggest friction i have with coding using ai is the structures ai build the app on. It seems that ai always uses the easiest or shortest path which may not mean the best approach or structure to build an app on. I've faced this with the library app I'm making and right now I'm in the middle of redoing the structure of the app. Being a non-coder means i don't know the terms or the structures best suited for the apps i'm building and ai is doing a really bad job at giving advice in this regards. So I've learnt my lesson for future apps i plan to make, first research the structure to build upon and map things out correctly.
I'm also curious about automation , i haven't done it outside of the apps I've built so far. I've heard a lot of people talk about creating a workflow for coding which i haven't done yet. What's the a home automation setup you made ? And how did you build it ?

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Aliaksei Zelianouski •

I don't really use automations for coding. Claude Code is a good level of automation for me out of the box. My monitoring are about monitoring, and some routines. My loop agent checks the logs of my apps in prod, collects user metrics, checks API budgets and other thing. Then it lets me know in Telegram.

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Andrew Avery •

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Andrew, building PromptSpend, an open-source LLM cost calculator that tries to get the actual arithmetic right (compounding chat history, cache-write costs, promotional pricing that expires, that kind of thing), backed by a catalog that re-checks itself against vendors every morning.

Just published my first piece here, about the specific ways pricing calculators like mine get the number wrong, including one we got wrong ourselves, in public, on our own product.

Excited to be part of the community and see what everyone's building.

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Aliaksei Zelianouski •

Publishing the one your own tool got wrong is rare. The gap I keep hitting sits upstream of the arithmetic though - you cannot know the output length before the call. I track cost per call on a side project that runs a lot of models, and on thinking models about 60% of billed output turns out to be reasoning, roughly a 2.5x multiplier over the visible answer, and it moves run to run.

So I stopped projecting single requests and bound the session instead: models are banded by effective output price, and the band decides how much can run. Does PromptSpend take a reasoning estimate from the user, or carry a per-model multiplier?

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Andrew Avery •

Good question, and the honest answer is user-supplied, not a per-model default. PromptSpend has a reasoning-multiplier field, defaults to 1x, that you set yourself — it bills output at round(output_tokens x multiplier). The model catalog only flags whether a model has hidden reasoning at all, a boolean, not how much; the multiplier isn't derived from anything because there's no published per-model figure to derive it from, and it swings run to run like you said. Your 2.5x number is a genuinely useful data point, closer to a real per-model default than what's in there today, which is just 1x until someone moves the slider.

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Abhiix0 •

PromptSpend sounds really useful, especially with how messy LLM pricing has become.

I really like that you're sharing where the calculator itself got things wrong too. That kind of transparency makes technical projects way more interesting to follow.

I'll definitely check it out 👀

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Andrew Avery •

Thanks, Abhiix0! Appreciate you reading through the calculator's own mistakes too — that was almost the part I cut, but it's the part that actually matters. Let me know if you hit anything weird once you try it.

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Abhiix0 •

Glad you kept that part in—it definitely gives great context. I’ll run some tests with it soon and let you know if anything pops up. Cheers!

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Asada Shinsaku •

Hello, everyone! 👋

I’m Asada Shinsaku, a software engineer who loves coding—sometimes more than my code loves compiling.

I’m really happy to be here. This community already feels warm and welcoming, and I’m looking forward to meeting you, seeing what you’re building, and sharing the occasional debugging headache.

I hope we can support one another, help our projects grow, and celebrate those rare, magical moments when everything works on the first try.

Thanks for having me. I’m excited to be part of the community!

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Abhiix0 •

Haha, "sometimes more than my code loves compiling" is painfully relatable 😂

Welcome! Looking forward to seeing what you're building too. Hopefully we get more of those magical "works on the first try" moments than debugging headaches here 🚀

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Asada Shinsaku •

Thank you for your kindness.

I hope we can discuss more work matters in the future.

Thank you once again.

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Robert Brownstein •

Welcome! I'm new here too.

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Asada Shinsaku •

Thank you! ♥️

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Vo Viet Hoang •

Hey Asada, welcome! Excited to see what you build and share here! 🙌

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Robert Brownstein •

Hi, I'm Robert, and I'm a software engineer. I'm here to engage with the community around the stuff I'm prototyping - which is currently Tauric Studio, a Tiled-compatible map editing tool for game developers.

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ErystelaThevale •

Hi everyone! 👋
I'm an engineer and independent researcher. I recently built a lightweight, local-first RSS reader to bypass Reddit's strict unauthenticated API rate limits (using a combined "hot" feed workaround).
I joined DEV to share technical learnings from that process, read about open-source workflows, and connect with fellow developers. Looking forward to the discussions and great articles here!

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bswvladimir-beep •

Hello, colleagues!
Glad to be part of this friendly community of enthusiasts.

I've already published an article here about my debugging tool for coding agents. I hope you found it useful. Giving agents X-ray vision—that was worth all the effort.

And now I have some big ideas. I've been searching for a long time and found a way to provide agents with information in the most convenient format. But that's the topic of the next article. I just finished it and am about to publish it. Enjoy!

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Syed Ibrahim • • Edited

Hey everyone!

I’m Syed, a developer who’s been getting more into AI lately, mostly by building side projects and figuring things out as I go. Joined Dev.to to learn from what others are building, share a few things along the way, and hopefully meet some cool people here✌️

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Peter Ndumia •

Hey everyone, I'm Peter. I'm building PDFHaul, a free browser-based PDF toolkit, solo.

Most of what I've been deep in lately is PDF parsing and table extraction, which turns out to be a much harder problem than it looks once you get past simple bordered tables. I recently shipped an MCP server for it too, bcrypt-hashed API keys, JWT, SSRF prevention, idempotency keys, the works, which taught me more about the edge cases of letting AI agents touch real files than I expected going in.

Happy to talk PDFs, document processing, MCP, or the general chaos of building something solo on nights and weekends. Looking forward to seeing what people here are working on.

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MORPHOICΞS. • • Edited

Hey guys! ~

I’m Valentine, a solo founder building MORPHOICES — an AI-powered product development system for turning scattered ideas into structured, launch-ready digital products.

What brought me here is a problem I keep running into while building: context gets lost as work moves between tools and stages.

Research lives somewhere.
Decisions end up in docs.
Implementation happens somewhere else.
Then a few weeks later, you’re trying to remember ''why'' you made a particular decision in the first place.

I’m exploring how AI can work inside a system that keeps those connections intact — from research and decisions through validation, planning, and execution.

I’m still learning a lot about product architecture, AI workflows, and what actually makes these systems useful in practice.

Looking forward to learning from everyone here and meeting other builders. 👋

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RollDate •

Hi everyone! 👋
I'm a frontend developer working mainly with JavaScript.

Recently I've been building RollDate, an open-source, dependency-free JavaScript date picker focused on scroll-first interaction.

I'm here to share what I'm learning while building and maintaining an open-source project, and hopefully learn from the DEV community as well.

Looking forward to reading your posts and meeting other developers! 🚀

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Dev Connect •

hey welcome

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Seth Wheeler •

Hi everyone,

I am Seth, a graduate student, and most of what I build is a re-implementation of something which already exists, since rebuilding systems seems to be the only reliable way that I have found to learn which parts of its design are actually load-bearing.

What I worked on most recently is a Kubernetes API server in Node that the real kubectl talks to unmodified, a macOS browser (Swift, on WKWebView) that holds a memory budget you give it the way a game engine holds a frame budget, a web crawler that implements the B25 algorithm, and a benchmark that ranks language models on catching liars in a game of Mafia instead of on win rate.

What keeps me interested is that the failure is never in the part I expect. I priced a hibernated browser tab at 32 KB in simulation; real WebKit charges 39 MB. My web crawler's rate limiter measured itself as enforcing a perfect five-second delay while the host on the other end was receiving a hundred requests at once. However, in both cases every component was correct and the composition was wrong, which is hard to catch from inside a single process.

I have been documenting most of my findings from my projects at sethwheeler.dev, and cross-posting my findings here. Glad to be here.

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Kyohei Taniguchi •

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Kyohei, an independent developer from Japan building simple, privacy-focused tools for macOS.

I recently released SnapSlim, a native Mac app for compressing JPEG, PNG, and HEIC images entirely on-device, and I joined DEV to share what I learn while building and shipping small software products.

I'm especially interested in macOS development, local-first software, developer tooling, testing, and AI-assisted development.

I just published my first post here today. Looking forward to learning from everyone and sharing more along the way!

Nice to meet you all! 🐈

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Dev Connect •

welcome nice to meet u i wish u a great day

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Kyohei Taniguchi •

Thanks! Nice to meet you too, have a great day!

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Leoncio Jr Coronado •

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Leoncio from the Philippines. I work with Python automation, web scraping, data pipelines, and AI-assisted workflows.

Recently, I've been building practical tools around web data extraction and business automation, including Apify Actors and small systems designed to reduce repetitive manual work. I'm especially interested in turning real-world workflows into reliable, maintainable software.

I'm here on DEV to keep learning, document what I discover while building, and learn from developers working on automation, AI, backend systems, and data engineering.

Looking forward to meeting fellow builders and sharing what I learn along the way! 🚀

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skyblueao77 •

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm a Civil Engineering student from Japan.
I'm currently creating an open-source tutorial series titled "Python for Civil Engineering" to help engineering students learn data analysis and scientific computing (NumPy, pandas, SciPy) using modern tools like uv.

Excited to learn from this community and share my journey here! 🚀

GitHub: github.com/skyblueao77/civil-engin...

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Ace • • Edited

Hi everyone! 👋

I’m Akira, an AI/ML Engineer based in California. I’ve been working in software engineering and machine learning for several years, with most of my recent work focused on LLM applications, generative AI, RAG, NLP, and building AI systems that actually make it into production.

I joined DEV because I want to learn from other developers, share some of the things I’ve learned along the way, and hopefully contribute to some interesting discussions.

I’m particularly interested in AI engineering, LLM infrastructure, model evaluation, AI agents, and the practical side of taking ML systems from an idea to something people can actually use.

Looking forward to meeting everyone here and reading what you’re building. Feel free to say hi! 🚀

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Kumaresan •

Hey everyone! 👋

Recent grad here — just joined a company that works heavily in AWS, and I'm learning backend development on the job (Node.js/TypeScript, Lambda, API Gateway, PostgreSQL, and the AWS ecosystem more broadly). Landed here to learn from people further along than me and hopefully share what I pick up along the way too.

Fun fact: I'm still at the stage where every new AWS service I touch feels like unlocking a new level 😄

Looking forward to being part of this community!

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korsto •

Hey everyone! 👋 Glad to finally join the community. I’m into Android tweaks, CLI workflows, and exploring new software dev projects. Looking forward to learning from everyone here and sharing what I discover along the way. Happy coding! 🚀

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Ömer ExpressGo •

Hi everyone! 👋

I’m Ömer, joining from Istanbul, Türkiye. I’m interested in technology, web development, digital projects, and learning how people solve real-world problems with tech.

Happy to be here and looking forward to learning from the DEV community, sharing ideas, and joining the conversations. 🚀

Nice to meet you all!

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Mihail •

hi

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Abrham Yeshigeta •

Hey everyone! I'm Abrham - I'm from ETHIOPIA.
I'm a developer who loves building creative projects and learning new things.
Outside of coding, I'm a huge movie fan—I love getting lost in a good story, discussing plot twists with friends, and discovering new perspectives.
I'm always up for a great conversation and love learning something new from every person I meet.
Nice to meet you all!

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Abrham Yeshigeta • • Edited

Hey everyone! I'm Abrham from Ethiopia.
I'm a developer who loves building creative projects and learning new things.
Outside of coding, I'm a huge movie fan -- I love getting lost in a good story, discussing plot twists with friends, and discovering new perspectives.
I'm always up for a great conversation and love learning something new from every person I meet.
Nice to meet you all!

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Saif Ali •

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Saif, a BS Information Technology student interested in Cloud Security and GRC.

I'm currently building practical projects in Python, Network Security, Linux, and Security Automation while documenting what I learn along the way.

Looking forward to learning from the DEV Community, sharing my projects, and connecting with other developers and security enthusiasts! 🚀

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Fábio •

Hi everyone!

I'm new to the DEV Community and I'm really happy to be here!

I'm currently studying Systems Analysis and Development (ADS) in Brazil. I'm still at the beginning of my programming journey, but I'm really enjoying learning and building new things.

So far, I've been studying C, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, algorithms and programming logic. I've also worked on some Arduino projects using C/C++, including a small Arduino car project.

I'm also working on improving my English, so joining an international developer community like this is a great opportunity for me to learn both programming and English.

I'm looking forward to meeting other developers, learning from you guys, sharing my projects, and improving along the way.

Nice to meet you all!

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Yann • • Edited

Hi There!

I've been doing front-end stuff forever… I'm a big fan of hand coding CSS/HTML, but I've been dabbling in Claude code recently for TDD (and writing my PRs 🤣) and it's definitely sped up my workflow (and I've always hated writing tests 😅).

I run a web design studio by day, maintain an open source CSS framework by night, and put out a newsletter about CSS/HTML features based on Google’s Baseline once a month. I'm also working on a stealth startup right now… I'm not sure it's appropriate to link to all this here though, so I'll keep it mysterious 😁

Nice to be part of the community! 👋

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Katsuhiro Yamakawa •

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Katsuhiro, an engineer from Japan. I've been writing technical articles in
Japanese for a few years, and I've just started publishing English versions
of them here.

Most of what I work on these days is the workflow around AI coding agents —
how to hand work to them without losing track of what's protected, and what
kind of documents are worth keeping when an agent writes most of the tests.
I also spend a lot of time in a terminal-only setup (NixOS, tmux) and
occasionally build small hardware things with a Raspberry Pi.

English isn't my first language, so writing here is partly practice.
Looking forward to reading what everyone's building!

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Mahad Ansar •

Nice, I’ve been exploring a lot of the same stuff lately around coding-agent workflows and orchestration. Curious to see what you end up writing about.

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Thomas Casali •

Hi everyone! I'm Thomas, computer science teacher at a technical high school in Italy by day, indie dev after hours. I build web and mobile apps for sports events and for my school, mostly solo, which means every lesson I learn is paid for exactly once and forgotten twice. Lately I've been working on fixing that second part: a memory system for my AI coding sessions, so what I learn in one project survives into the next. First article about it coming next week. Fun fact: some of my students find bugs in my apps faster than any test suite I ever wrote.

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Cryptosafekit •

Hi everyone! Glad to join this community.
I run cryptosafekit, a site focused on crypto hardware wallet reviews and cryptocurrency asset security guides.
I’m currently learning WordPress performance optimization, web security defense and Google SEO to grow my independent site.
Looking forward to exchanging ideas about web development, e-commerce and crypto security with all of you 😊

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ITBSG Research • • Edited

Hi everyone!

I’m Yehor, a software developer interested in AI, automation, and building useful digital products.
I work with TypeScript, APIs, backend systems, Playwright, and browser automation. Recently, I’ve been exploring how AI agents can generate quality content, automate complex workflows, and still keep humans in control of important decisions.

I’m currently building tools that combine AI, content workflows, and reliable browser automation.
I’m here to learn from other developers, share practical lessons, and document what I build along the way.

Looking forward to meeting everyone! 🚀

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Mahesh U Naidu •

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Mahesh, building VedIntel™ AstroAPI, a Vedic astrology computation API. Started as a fix for a third-party dependency in my own product that turned out to have real accuracy bugs, grew into its own thing.

Mostly working in TypeScript/Next.js these days. Looking forward to sharing what I'm building and learning from everyone here.

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Sebastian •

Hey everyone,

I'm a tech lead from germany, always trying to learn something new and share something with the world.

I am currently working in EdTech trying to support students in their struggles with the help of, who guessed it, AI. Originally a frontend dev, I now work in all fields relevant for web applications, and as a good jack of all trades, I am not exceptional at anything, I just know who to talk to.

I am going to share my learnings on the job, be it fundamental knowledge I gained over the years or just quick realisations from my current work day. And more importantly I am hoping to start discussions and learning from all of you.

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Crygodi •

Hello everyone!
I'm John, a developer and builder who enjoys learning new technologies and turning ideas into real projects.
I joined DEV to learn from other developers, share experiences, and connect with people who are passionate about building things.
I'm currently exploring web development, APIs, backend architecture, and game development.
Looking forward to learning from the community and getting to know everyone.
What are you currently building or learning?

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ΛXXӨ • • Edited

Hi DEV 👋, I'm Althaf

I’m here because I’m passionate about building things with code and exploring how technology can solve real-world problems.

I’m especially interested in full-stack development, cybersecurity, automation, AI, and understanding how systems work from the inside out.

I’ll be sharing what I learn while building — projects, experiments, useful tools, security research, and ideas around creating smarter and more secure technology.

Always learning. Always building. Always breaking things to understand how they work.

Github - github.com/axxodeveloper

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cloudcosttree •

Hey everyone, glad to be here. I'm a solo developer working on CloudCostTree, a CLI that helps you understand and experiment with what your AWS infrastructure will cost before you actually deploy it. Been heads down building it for the past few weeks and figured it was time to actually join the community instead of just lurking.

Been learning a lot about AWS's pricing internals along the way, turns out a lot of it is way more nuanced than it looks from the outside.

Looking forward to reading what everyone else here is building.

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Edward Calanni •

I’m Edward. I’m deep into SEO, GEO, AI search and referral traffic.

If that’s your thing, you might want to hit follow. I’m planning to share the good stuff only: experiments, findings, weird data and tactics actually worth testing.

No recycled “10 SEO tips” here 😎

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Samuel Gauthier •

Super excited to finally jump into the conversation here!

What brought us here: We’re the team behind Heavnn.io, a global tax & legal platform built specifically for location-independent remote workers and digital nomads. We joined to connect with the dev community and share practical knowledge about remote work setups.

How we can help: We know cross-border taxes, dual residency rules, and multi-country income can be a massive headache when you're coding from anywhere. Drop any tax, residency, or remote-setup questions in the replies, and we'll gladly break them down for you!

Fun fact: We spend as much time untangling international tax treaties as developers spend trying to exit Vim.

Say hi if you're currently nomading or working remotely from another country! ✈️💻

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TrustScoreAgent •

Hey everyone 👋

I've lately build TrustScoreAgent, a free and open reputation layer so AI agents can check whether a service is reliable before they call it. I've been heads-down building it and I'm finally poking my head up to start writing here, mostly about the trust and reliability side of agents.

What brought me here: I read a lot more dev.to than I contribute, and I'd like to fix that. Keen to learn from how people here explain hard things simply.

Fun fact: most of my better design decisions happened on a walk or running, not at the keyboard.

Glad to be here.

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Inolas •

Hi, I'm Inolas just starting out with dev.to. I found it randomly while searching something else about computers but i guess it's a place that i always wanted. I am learning Software Engineering and currently in my 3rd year and i am so excited to explore this crazy place, well that's it for now.

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kachence •

Hi all,

I'm a full-time data engineer and a part-time prediction markets bot builder.

Glad to join and connect with other developers! I will be sharing what I build here and will hopefully find like-minded individuals who also are passionate about prediction markets.

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Mirco Seekamp •

Hey Kacho, really interesting work. I'm a journalist with STRG_F (NDR/funk, 1.3M YouTube subscribers) and we're currently working on a documentary about prediction markets. I'd love to chat with you about your Polymarket bots. Sent you a message here, would be great to connect!

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Fathia Gbadamosi •

Hi everyone👋
I’m Fathia, a Computer Science student and developer who genuinely loves coding and building things. I’m currently learning Python, Django, and DRF, and I’m excited to grow my backend skills.

I’m joining this community to learn, connect, share, and meet other people passionate about tech. I’m also trying to remind myself that learning isn’t a race. Instead of constantly feeling like I’m behind, I want to enjoy the journey, learn at my own pace, make mistakes, build projects, and celebrate my progress.

I’m really excited to be here and looking forward to learning and growing with you all! 🚀

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Earl Grey •

Welcome @gbadamosifathia ! Dev.to is a great place to enjoy the journey. You'll meet like minded people, those who may have different perspectives that can challenge our mental models and have lot's of fun, too!

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Aarush Karak •

Hey everyone! I'm Aarush Karak — a high school software developer from Toronto, Canada, focused on spatial computing, AI, and full-stack development.

I'm the founder of TheCoderBros, a platform engineering fellow at Hack Club (Stardance), and a 1st-place TSA State Champion in Video Game 3D Design. I love building at the intersection of the web and 3D — my favorite project is HELIOS, a browser-based AI operating system with hand-gesture navigation built on Three.js and MediaPipe.

My blog covers spatial computing on the web, React Server Components, PostgreSQL internals, and CLI tooling — plus the occasional deep dive into my open-source projects like astro-tasks (a Python CLI developer dashboard, shipped on PyPI).

You can find me at aarushkarak.vercel.app or on GitHub @3ni8ma. Excited to be here and happy to connect!

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Kamil Abdulfatau •

Please I want to learn full stack development please who can help and one problem is I’m 14years

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S.Babas •

Hello everyone!
I'm a solo backend developer with a strong passion for DevOps. I'm currently building NuxiPro, a SaaS designed to declutter our Kanban workspaces from completed tasks.

Eager to learn a lot here on DEV.to, gather insights from your experiences, and share my own journey as I build in public!

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Maki Vlach • • Edited

Hello!

I am Maki. I got into the software development ever since the age of 10. I had multiple motivations back then - one of them being my father who was a hero to me. He was always able to repair the computer that I've broken by downloading free computer games, which was mind-blowing to me back then.

Another motivation was the fact that I loved playing computer games such as Heroes: Might & Magic III, WoW, etc. I also loved to watch the tv show Star Gate. I loved how they have managed to save the world by understanding a computer program minutes before disaster.

So I decided that I also want to save the world by helping others, as well as making my father proud and perhaps one day - become better. And it paid. The gift that was given to me by the universe started to pay off - persistence.

I spent years of studying on my own, creating projects, working for companies bigger and smaller and step by step becoming better in what I do.

At some point I have reached level where I can tell that I made by father proud and now - the other goal remains - make this world a better place.

Thank you!

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Kestrion •

What's up, Kubernauts? 👋

Kestrion here. I joined DEV to share practical Kubernetes lessons and experience for small and medium-sized engineering teams—especially those running production workloads without a dedicated platform team.

I'm interested in the unglamorous but important parts: safe deployments, tested restores, sensible costs, upgrades, and keeping platform complexity proportional to the size of the team.

Lately, I’ve been wrestling with Karpenter and Istio. Those two never seem to sleep—and apparently, neither do I :-D .

I'm also here to learn from how other teams approach these problems. What cloud-native challenge is taking most of your time right now?

Fun fact: I also maintain a free CKA study project in Spanish.

Very quick question: AWS or Azure?, don't fight for it.

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Valerii Sakara •

Hi everyone! I'm Valerii — I audit algorithmic trading bot code for a living: entry/exit logic, order management, risk handling, fee-honest backtests. Before offering this as a service I audited my own live bot the same way, and I've since filed 40+ public responsible-disclosure issues against open-source trading bots, looking for code that behaves differently than the README or the backtest claims it does. Just started sharing some of the recurring bug patterns here — glad to be part of the community!

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Chukwuemeka Andre Ozomma •

Hi everyone!

I'm Andre, a full-stack developer working mainly with React, Next.js, Tailwind, and Shadcn UI. Currently building PatientCare, a patient management system, and I just finished writing a two-book series on AI-assisted development — teaching the fundamentals first, then bringing AI tools into the workflow once there's something solid to judge them against.

Excited to be here, read what people are building, and join the conversation on how AI is actually changing (or not changing) the way we write code day to day.

Looking forward to being part of this community!

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Emirck •

Hello everyone! I'm new around here, I'm 24, and I want to start a devlog of sorts where I document my progress as a programmer. I hope to both give and receive feedback on whatever I’m working on or posting.

I'd love to make friends with people who are also just starting to grind, since I'm one of them. I'm about to finish university, but honestly feel like I don't know anything, so it's time to do my part. Greetings to everyone!

If you just want to meet people and shoot me a message so we can suffer together, you're more than welcome to haha. 🤘🏼

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Kamil Abdulfatau •

Please I want to learn full stack development please who can help and one problem is I’m 14years

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stillrefactoring • • Edited

Hey everyone!

I'm a software engineer, and I'm mainly interested in backend development. I work mostly with ASP.NET Core and Java/Spring Boot, and I'm currently learning Express.js and diving deeper into SQL.

I recently joined DEV to start sharing more of what I'm building and learning. My current project is a personal file drive, and I'm planning to document the process as I build it, while also trying to fight my tendency to start too many projects and never finish them.

Looking forward to discovering what everyone else is working on and learning from the community!

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CheckoutWorks | Shopify Dev •

Hi everyone!

We are CheckoutWorks, a Shopify development team helping merchants solve real-world store problems and build better ecommerce experiences.

We work with Shopify themes, Liquid, APIs, apps, integrations, and custom development. We'll be sharing practical guides, technical insights, and lessons learned from building and maintaining Shopify stores.

Looking forward to learning from this community, connecting with other developers, and sharing what we discover along the way.

Happy coding! 🚀

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Brently •

I’m Brently, I work for a small law Immigration Law Firm. I am here to build my skills so I can confidently implement new more efficient workflows, improve our current processes, and expand our use of available technology. The firm continues to grow, and I want to ensure that we are able to scale with it! Excited to see what I will learn from y’all!

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Vo Viet Hoang •

Hi DEV community! 👋 Glad to be here! I focus on Technical SEO and AI-assisted development (Vibe Coding) for building micro web applications. Looking forward to sharing and discovering great insights here!

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Elias Muse •

Hey everyone 👋 Happy to finally be here.
I'm an AI music creator — I spend most of my days turning text prompts and lyrics into songs with an AI music generator, then editing them into something I'd actually want to listen to. My background isn't traditional music production; I got here by being endlessly curious about what these tools can and can't do, and just... not stopping.
Why DEV.to? Honestly, I've been lurking for a while and kept noticing that the people here explain how things work, not just that they work. As someone who lives on the creative side of AI but keeps bumping into the technical side (prompt structure, audio formats, little automation scripts to save myself time), this feels like the right room to learn in — and eventually give back to.
One thing I find genuinely fascinating: how much a tiny change to a prompt can swing the whole mood of a track. "lofi, rainy night, 85 BPM" and "lofi, rainy night, 85 BPM, slightly out of tune" produce two completely different feelings. It's turned me into someone who takes notes on adjectives. I now have a document that is, unironically, just a curated list of moods.
Looking forward to reading, asking questions, and sharing what I learn along the way. Nice to meet you all!

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Christopher Semler •

Hey everyone! I’m Christopher. I recently graduated with my BS in Software Engineering from Western Governors University and I’m making a career change into software development. Right now I’m focused on full‑stack learning, building my portfolio, and getting ready for my first dev job. I’m here to connect with other developers, share progress, and chat with people on the same journey. Always happy to talk.

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Sardor •

👨🏻‍💻 Howdy! I'm Sardor, an indie dev from Uzbekistan who loves building software that solves real problems 🚀

Teach stack ⚙

  • Python
  • Frontend (React + Typescript)
  • bash

Skills 💡

  • Web Development
  • Web Design
  • Prompt Engineering.

Tools 🛠️

  • Git/GitHub
  • Supabase
  • Vercel
  • Clerk
  • OpenCode
  • Figma
  • Framer
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Douglas Masho •

Hi everyone! 👋

my name is Douglas, a full-stack developer from Windhoek, Namibia. I split my time between client work and building things on the side, mostly stuff that started as "this annoys me enough to fix it." Been lurking around here for a bit and figured it was time to actually say hi. Looking forward to seeing what everyone's building.

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Harry •

Hi everyone, I’m Harry 👋
I’m an independent developer working on a few open-source tools, mostly with Rust, Python, and Vue. I joined DEV because I want to share more of what I learn while shipping desktop apps instead of leaving everything buried in commit history.

I’ve just published my first post here about MangoDisk. Looking forward to meeting other builders and seeing what everyone’s working on.

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Ichimura Tomoo •

​Hi everyone! I'm Ichimura, a Web Engineer from Japan.

I'm still at the beginning of my career, but I write Java for a living by day, and by night, I'm completely obsessed with Rust 🦀.

When I'm away from the keyboard, I love going cycling to refresh my mind 🚲. Excited to connect with you all!

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Cristina M •

Hi everyone! 👋

I’m just getting started in web development and joined this community to learn, improve my skills, and connect with other people who enjoy building things for the web.

I’m currently experimenting with HTML, CSS, WordPress, and a bit of JavaScript, taking things step by step and learning through small projects.

Looking forward to learning from the community, sharing progress, and hopefully helping others as I gain more experience. 😊

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Alireza Rabiei •

Hey everyone 👋 I'm Alireza — I've been building full-stack web apps for about 8 years now, mostly PHP/Laravel on the backend with TypeScript/Next.js on the frontend. Over the years that's meant a pretty wide mix of work: enterprise software for Iran's Construction Engineering Organization, core contributions to Rahmam LMS, and running my own e-commerce store, Hoogallery, which I built from scratch and still operate.

Lately I've been on a bit of a deep-dive: rewriting Hoogallery's backend from Laravel to NestJS, not because it needed rewriting, but because I wanted to really understand NestJS properly, and there's no better way than rebuilding something real, business logic and all. I'll probably end up posting about that here — the architecture decisions, the things that don't translate cleanly between frameworks, that kind of thing.

Happy to be here, looking forward to seeing what everyone's building.

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BruceJames • • Edited

Hi, I'm Bruce 👋

I'm a software engineer passionate about building developer tools and AI products.

Over the years, I've worked with Go, Rust, TypeScript, distributed systems, and modern web technologies. Recently, most of my time has been spent exploring how large language models can solve real-world problems instead of just creating demos.

My current project is MeeLang, an AI-powered Chrome extension that provides real-time translation for Google Meet. The idea came from a simple problem: multilingual meetings are still surprisingly difficult, even with today's AI. I wanted a solution that could translate conversations while people are still speaking—without requiring meeting bots or complicated setup.

Besides building products, I'm interested in:

  • AI and LLM applications
  • Developer tools
  • Distributed systems
  • Rust & Go
  • SaaS and indie hacking
  • Product growth and SEO

On Dev.to, I'll be writing about what I learn while building AI products—from engineering challenges and Chrome extension development to product launches, growth experiments, and lessons learned as an indie developer.

If you're working on AI, browser extensions, or SaaS products, I'd love to connect and exchange ideas.

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Muhammad Usman •

Hi I am Muhammad Usman, a passionate software engineer who is currently working on his problem solving skills and makes projects in MERN Stack. One of my projects is vconnect.fun, its a real time messaging web application inspired from the WhatsApp and currently in beta version. The other project is cocode.fun that is collaborative code editor that was built for fun as I and my collegues spend time while coding and it has microphone and chats feature as well .
I am here to build connections and work with other fellows

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Omar •

Hi guys, I'm a cloud engineer focused on AWS and I'm working on specialising in cloud security. I started my tech career in the AWS Re/start boot camp and it been all cloud and AWS since then. Full Terraform and Kubernetes proficiency loading. Looking forward to meeting like minds.

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CraftBee •

Hello Everyone ! 👋

I'am CraftBee a game dev begginer i search for devs to share me on the learning and help me to start i think and i love horror games and stuff like fears to fathom by rayII and lighting horror experiences I hope i find a friend that shares me on that...

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Artem Golub •

Hi all, Im a data engineer working with AWS, Snowflake and other databases, Python. I build data pipelines and solutions around AI. Not really building anything of my own at the moment, just looking for contract work.

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Christoph Dieck •

Hey everyone.

I'm Chris, a systems engineer and web developer from Germany. I build cloud infrastructure and TypeScript applications by day, and pave actual patios and run electrical cables by evening. Same problem-solving mindset, very different tools.

Tech stack is mostly TypeScript, React, Astro, AWS, and Docker. I self-host what I can on Proxmox and automate what makes sense.

I'll be writing about practical patterns and architecture decisions from my projects.

Looking forward to seeing what everyone's building.

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Gregory Harris •

Hello!

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Chethan Raj •

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm Chethan, a Senior Lead Consultant working primarily with Azure, Dynamics 365 FSCM, C#.NET and enterprise integration.

I'm here to learn, share practical experience, and connect with other engineers and architects working on cloud and enterprise systems.

I'm also starting a technical writing series on Azure Architecture — From Zero to Production, covering architecture decisions, enterprise integration, Infrastructure as Code, and production practices.

Looking forward to learning from the DEV community!

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ITInterviewCoach •

¡Hola!
I’ve been working in IT for around 8 years and regularly interview with international companies. As a side project, I created a Telegram-based platform for technical interview preparation called ITInterviewCoach.
I’m currently working on growing it in both Spanish and English, and I’m still actively building and improving the project. Honestly, I’m really excited about it right now.
I’d like to keep that momentum going, and one of the best ways to do that is to connect with other developers, follow what they’re building, and exchange ideas and experiences.
Looking forward to meeting people here and learning from the community

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Gregory Harris •

Hi everyone! I’m Gregory. My background is a mix of construction, healthcare technology, SaaS, integrations, and technical support, and more recently I’ve been building software and doing independent research around AI agents and reliability.

I joined DEV to learn from people building in this space, share some of what I’m finding through my own work, and hopefully contribute where I can. Looking forward to meeting everyone!

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keping jiang •

Hi everyone! 👋

I'm a Java backend developer with a strong interest in building practical, scalable software for real-world applications.

Recently, I've been focusing on:

  • Java & Spring Boot
  • Spring Security and RBAC
  • Enterprise application architecture
  • AI integration in backend systems
  • Building reusable developer tools and starter projects

I'm currently working on a few open-source projects around Java enterprise development and AI-powered applications.

One thing I'm especially interested in is exploring how AI can be integrated into traditional enterprise software in a practical way — not just demos, but tools and architectures that developers can actually build on.

I'm joining DEV because I want to learn from other developers, share what I'm building, and write about some of the technical decisions and lessons I encounter along the way.

My first technical article will be about how I structure RBAC in a Spring Boot application, including roles, permissions, and how to keep authorization logic maintainable as an application grows.

I'm looking forward to connecting with other developers interested in Java, Spring Boot, backend architecture, and AI. 🚀

Feel free to say hello! 👋

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bingus-bongo •

Hi everyone,

I'm a founder based in SF that started in decentralized cloud and are now building out tokengo.com for your serverless inference needs. We're one of the cheapest providers online due to our supply economics and support 99.9 SLAs! Come check us out!!!

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Bidyut Mahanta •

Hi everyone! 👋

I’m new to the DEV Community and excited to dive in! Currently learning and working on expanding my coding skills. Looking forward to connecting with everyone and learning from all your experiences!

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Harshil Srivastava •

Hello everyone,

I am Harshil, an engineering student who is focusing on learning skills and tools related to DevOps and Cloud.

Currently I am learning Networking, Amazon Web Services and Jenkins with having a prior knowledge of Linux, Git and Bash Scripting.

I am new to communities and stuff so please help me out if you can 😅. I had also recently started contributing in Open Source Projects (Like Ianvs).

If you are in my field any type of advice will be appreciated. Thank you for having me in this community. 😁

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Aksa Fatima •

Hi ,
I am aksa fatima a software developer and going to learn about agentic AI
Going forward, I want to explore and build more innovative and scalableproducts that solve real-world problems. I’m currently expanding my skills in AI, Generative AI, and RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation).
I’ve just joined DEV and going to publish my first ever Blog here have a look in it

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Makoto Tanji •

Hi everyone! I'm Makoto, an indie developer from Japan. I've been building ScoreTail a browser-based sheet music editor (real-time collaborative editing + MusicXML support) mostly solo, leaning heavily on AI-assisted development to work through the notation format's complexity.

Excited to be here — looking forward to reading how other devs tackle hard technical problems in their own projects!

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Milton Quranda •

Hi, I am a Software engineer & founder building Bright Canoe. With 28 years in the industry, I am Passionate about real-time web tech, AI integrations, clean developer UX, and shipping tools that save people time.

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ADITYA SINGH TANWAR •

Hey everyone 👋 I'm Aditya. I joined DEV Community while participating in the 10 Days of AI Voice Agents — Voice for Bharat challenge by Murf AI. Over the past week, I've been building 'Kisan Vaani' — a multi-agent voice assistant to help Indian farmers get real-time mandi prices, weather forecasts, and expert crop disease advice in Hindi. Excited to learn and connect with all of you here.