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Welcome Thread - v369

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Ben Halpern The DEV Team β€’

Welcome everyone!!

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Thales Horta β€’

Hello People!

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

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Ben Halpern The DEV Team β€’

Hello!

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Ilya Gordey β€’

Hey! I'm Ilya, based in Thailand πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡­

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 β€” 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 β€” 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 πŸ‘‹

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Tia β€’

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

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Ogunleye Itunu Michael β€’

hello

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Paolo Brungola β€’

thanks!

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1xmint β€’

Hello thanks

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Resmon Rama Rondonuwu β€’

πŸ‘‹ hello

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Naveen β€’

Hi Ben, Thanks for the welcome

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Amine Maaout β€’

Merci Ben

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Bianca Clifford β€’

Hello

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Kholofelo Robyn Rababalela β€’

Thanks!

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Yosua M. Wowor β€’

Hello!

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zrigger β€’

Hello~

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Ogunleye Itunu Michael β€’

hi

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ADOKS_JOHN β€’

thanks

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Bianca Clifford β€’

Hello

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Bejie Paulo Aclao β€’

thanks!

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Resmon Rama Rondonuwu β€’

πŸ‘‹

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Asim Gujjar β€’

Hy

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Neo β€’

Hi!

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Eastra β€’

Hey everyone! I'm Eastra, working in ops at an early-stage SaaS team building QCCBot Cloud Phone β€” 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! πŸ™Œ

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Muhammad Zain Shabbir β€’

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

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Oliver Pitts β€’ β€’ Edited

Hey everyone! πŸ‘‹

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 πŸ˜„

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Ali Reza Habibi β€’

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 πŸ˜…

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Stephan Joachim Augustin β€’

Great to see a focus on real-world performance.

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Ali Reza Habibi β€’

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

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Oliver Pitts β€’

Yeah Sure

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Ali Reza Habibi β€’

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"β€”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 thisβ€”am I missing a signal, or do I just need to be patient?

Thanks,

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Florent Cleron β€’

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.

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Valentin Monteiro β€’

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

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Kristin β€’

Hi! πŸ‘‹

I'm Kristin from Israel β€” 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!

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Valentin Monteiro β€’

GM everyone! πŸ‘‹

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 πŸš€

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sam jha β€’

GM Valentin! Your profile reads like a lot of overlap with what I'm working on β€” 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 β€” that's exactly how I think about CLI tooling. Would love to see what you write about LangChain and n8n workflows β€” 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

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Muhammad Zain Shabbir β€’

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

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Valentin Monteiro β€’

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

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Noir β€’

Afternoon,
Noir from Entrouter.
I enjoy the following but not limited to;
Lexicographic ordering, Natural entropy, Cryptographic randomness, Total ordering, Distributed consensus, HMAC-SHA256, SHA-256 fingerprinting, Merkle proofs, Atomic Lua scripts, ACID guarantees, Commit-reveal scheme, Cache locality, dTLB miss rate, Hugepages/THP, Resident Set Size, Entropy-based fairness routing, Vector clocks, Hybrid Logical Clocks, True Time API, Sub-millisecond hardware noise, Thundering herd problem, Fan-out pattern, Lexicographic token comparison, In-process race cache, Atomic sorted sets, Zero-copy pipelines, Connection multiplexing, Cryptographic audit chains, Per-field integrity verification, Pipeline integrity guardianship and coffee that doesn't resemble mud water...

see ya round. β˜•οΈ

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sam jha β€’

Welcome everyone joining this week! πŸ‘‹

I'm Sam β€” a Python developer from India building open-source CLI tools. My current project is Folder Intelligence, a tool that reads the actual content of your files (PDFs, Word docs, images via OCR) and organizes them intelligently β€” no AI models needed, runs 100% offline.

Always happy to connect with folks working on Python, productivity tools, CLI development, or open-source projects. Drop a comment if you're building something similar β€” would love to exchange notes!

GitHub: github.com/SGajjar24/folder-intell...

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Shubham Kumar β€’

Hello Everyone,
I'm a backend engineer with nearly 5 years of experience from India. I was looking for a website to learn and validate my system design skills, I found it this platform is a good way to interact with community and discuss a lot about system designs.

Talking about past, I've worked a lot with python, django stack and also actively do DSA questions (mostly on leetcode for now, but later will move to codeforces).

I'm currently invested myself in backend and also started learning golang, If somebody want to tag along to complete things faster(Study and discuss) , feel free to contact me.

fun fact: Long term man of MCU and recently started watching animes 🫣

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sam jha β€’

Hey Shubham! Fellow Python developer from India here πŸ‘‹ I'm also building open-source tools in Python β€” currently working on a CLI called Folder Intelligence that reads file content (PDFs, Word docs, OCR on images) and organizes/renames them intelligently. The Django + Python backend combo is solid β€” I've worked with similar stacks. System design is such a great skill to invest in. Would love to connect and discuss Python patterns, system design, or just nerd out about open-source stuff. Follow me here and let's keep in touch!

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Shubham Kumar β€’

Hey Sam!, The project you mentioned "Folder Intelligence" seems very interesting, can you please share its link if you've made it public repository, so that I can also have a look into it. I've followed, you. Thanks

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Arjun Singh β€’

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

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sam jha β€’

Hey Arjun! Great question β€” 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 β€” you can add a serverless function in a /api folder that proxies your OpenAI call. No separate server needed!

Hope that helps β€” feel free to reply with more questions.

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Arjun Singh β€’

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?

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Arjun Singh β€’

Cheers, working on this now

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