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What was your win this week?

Jess Lee on August 08, 2025

πŸ‘‹πŸ‘‹πŸ‘‹πŸ‘‹ Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of? All wins count -- big or small πŸŽ‰ Examples of 'wins' include: Getting a p...
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Ashley Childress

I received a special invite for a super cool hack time project. Although, I dunno if I'm still gonna appreciate that as much later, cause I'm so busy right now I don't know when I'll actually get a chance to look at it unless I'm already clocked out πŸ€¦β€β™€οΈπŸ•“πŸ”œ

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Anik Sikder

My win this week was finally squashing a stubborn bug that had been blocking a feature release for days! πŸžπŸŽ‰ It felt great to turn frustration into progress. What about you all? Would love to hear your wins!

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Giorgi Kobaidze

Heading on vacation ✈️ to let my brain reboot, defragment, and make more space to download some new project and article ideas.

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Farhad Rahimi Klie

I'm uploading my second post on Dev.to so I happy.

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Oscar

Congrats, and welcome to Dev.to!

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Jess Lee The DEV Team

Just returning from vacation and mostly caught up! Looking forward to a boring weekend and regular work week on Monday.

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Samina Rahman Purba

Published my first blog here today after taking a 2.5 year break! So much changed during this time. Super excited to get back into consistent blogging to document my startup journey.

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Farhad Rahimi Klie

Great well done.

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Ben Halpern The DEV Team

Whoa

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csm

Updated my Resume! I feel confident when I see that I am able to make it better by time.

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Prema Ananda

🎯 My Win This Week: Built a Forum on Redis 8!

After putting in considerable effort, I successfully built and tested a forum application based on FastAPI and Redis 8. The goal was to challenge the conventional wisdom that Redis is "just a cache" and prove it can be a unified platform for an entire application.

I focused on creating a stable foundation that the community can build upon if there's interest. The forum features AI-powered spam moderation, vector search for similar posts - all powered by a single Redis 8 instance.

πŸš€ Want to see it in action? I invite you to test the live demo! No registration required!

Check out the full technical breakdown and live demo here:
dev.to/prema_ananda/beyond-caching...

Would love to hear your feedback and thoughts! πŸ’­

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Ivan Arellano

I reached my 1st year as developer, I got myself into a new project too. Wish me luck!

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Pratyush Srivastava

Made some small projects, but proud to be consistent this time.

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Pranamya Rajashekhar

Built a few small projects making use of agents.
Also, I bought a new watercolor set and managed to make a half-decent piece πŸ˜†

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Knurl

Losing my laptop.

The laptop breaking and inability to fix it made me reconsider my plans and direction. It made me sit and think for once instead of trying to always do something that amounted to nothing more than chasing trends.

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Jay

Sounds like a painful experience, but an overall win. Sometimes disconnecting for a bit can go a long way in rediscovering yourself!

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KAVIN

Published an app that I had been working on for like a month!

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Bolaji Akinloye

I hosted my first fullstack web app on the internet yesterday, though it's a practice projects, but things get more interesting here on

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Jay

Impressive!

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adriens

I gave a try to build a local gradio app then used it as an MCP locally :

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Mukesh K Designs

Spent the last week working non-stop on my site mukeshkdesigns(dot)com… and it’s already at 11 DR in just 7 days! Hard work really does pay off.

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Ashish Prajapati

Just have been building simple markdown parser and figured out regex rules for parsing markdown and converting them to html.

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Vinay Nain

Designed for my new client and he absolutely loved the website. Not finished yet. But small win just made my week.

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Falcon Trackers Qatar

congratulations

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Regbee

Great idea, I like it!

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Ammar Tafoiki

I got my first 3 views on gumroad