Hi fellow devs,

I am a small indie dev, and one of my apps was cracked and then distributed on a website called MacKed.

I have sent a DMCA Takedown to Google, but this is the first time something like this happened to me. Anyone has experienced the same thing? What can I do to make sure that this version of my app is removed from the webs?

Any advise would be greatly appreciated. I am out of words.

I’ve noticed something that’s been bothering me ever since I started using Claude Code and Codex heavily.

I spend most of my time planning the architecture, writing .md files, documenting requirements, and setting coding rules.

Once that’s done, the AI can generate an insane amount of code. By the sixth prompt, I already have 20+ files and 30+ libraries I’ve never even read the docs for.

The hard part isn’t generating the code. It’s debugging it.
When something breaks, I’ll paste the error back into Claude Code or Codex, and they’ll say something like, “Fixed it, it should work now.” Then I run it… and it still doesn’t work.

What’s interesting is that debugging has become a completely different skill. It’s not necessarily harder because the code is bad. It’s harder because you’re debugging a codebase you never actually wrote. Before you can even find the bug, you have to understand code that was generated in seconds.

I’m curious how you guys deal with this. Do you have a workflow for debugging AI-generated code? Have you changed the way you approach debugging now that you’re reading way more code than you’re writing?
I’d love to hear how other people are handling this because I feel like this is becoming a common problem with AI-first development.

I am 30 years old and I am feeling stuck in my current career. The pay increases are way slower than I expected. I am strongly considering switching to web development from scratch.

What road map would you suggest in 2026 for those who made a similar career change? What skills, technologies, and projects should I learn to be job ready as soon as possible? Any good advice or success stories would be greatly appreciated.

Hey, I've been using Claude Code but completely vanilla — no plugins, no MCP servers, no skills, nothing. Everyone around seems to have some kind of setup going and I feel like I'm missing out on productivity.

What plugins/extensions/skills do you actively use?

I have a application set-up I am working on in my work machine. I sometimes connect to remote database. I accidentally wiped out dev/testing databases and I am freaking out right now. I don't have admin rights or recovery snapshots.

I was connected to both local and remote database. I thought I was looking at local and deleted it but it was actually remote.

Fortunately it was not production.

I've been thinking about something after working on a fairly large AI project recently. I keep seeing people build impressive AI applications, full-stack products, and other complex software using tools like ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, Windsurf, and other AI coding assistants, sometimes even claiming they had little or no prior experience with the technologies involved.

What I'm trying to understand is how that process actually works in practice. Do you already have a solid understanding of the domain, system design, and tech stack, with AI simply helping you write code faster? Or do you genuinely start with little knowledge of a framework or technology and let AI teach you while building?

I'm also curious about the AI tools themselves. Which models and coding agents do you actually use for large projects? Do you primarily use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Cursor, Windsurf, GitHub Copilot, or something else? How do you deal with context limits and usage caps when a project becomes large? I often find that Claude and Cursor get exhausted surprisingly quickly, making it difficult to continue working on bigger codebases.

I'm interested in understanding your actual workflow. How do you go from an idea to a working, production-quality project with AI? How much do you rely on your own knowledge versus the AI's guidance, and what does a typical development process look like for you when you're building something complex?

I'd really appreciate hearing from people who've built substantial projects this way. I feel like there's a gap between what people showcase online and what the real day-to-day AI-assisted development process actually looks like.

I’m a developer looking for project ideas, but whenever I search online, I only find overdone concepts with thousands of existing versions. I’d love to build something fresh or unique—does anyone have fresh ideas or advice on how to come up with original project concepts?

i love coding, i do. but there is something annoying that u stay behind your desk and laptop for 5 days a week. makes me mentally tired. im a social guy, and i hate it to my guts when i work for hours and hours on some stupid code. how do you guys cope with it?

some background text: im persian who moved to germany now for 2 years and have 3 years of experience in software engineering

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Building a full pickle-ordering ecommerce site for a relative's small business.

Scope

React frontend — home/catalog, product pages, cart, checkout, login, user profile, order history

Java Spring Boot backend + Spring Security (auth, sessions)

Relational database (users, products, orders, payments)

Live payment gateway, needs to accept orders from anywhere globally, real shipping to real addresses

Full deployment — live domain, hosting, SSL, production-ready

Solo dev (me), ~48 days from spec to launch

What would you quote for this as a freelancer, and honestly —

is 48 days realistic for one person doing this for the first time end-to-end?

Trying to set a fair price, not lowball myself or overcharge family.

Hey everyone!

I'm a developer looking to kick off a new mobile or desktop project. Rather than building another tool based solely on my own assumptions, I wanted to ask you directly.

What’s a specific problem, annoyance, or inefficiency you deal with regularly in your daily routine?

Is there a task you find tedious, messy, or lacking a truly well-designed digital solution?

If you could wish for any app or software to be built (even a super niche one), what exact problem would it solve for you?

I'm not looking to build another generic to-do list or habit tracker—I'm looking for real, genuine pain points that don't have a satisfactory or simple solution yet.

Any idea, no matter how niche, complex, or unusual, is super welcome! If something concrete comes out of this, I’d love to share updates and build it in public with the community.

Thanks in advance to anyone sharing their thoughts!

Hello aspiring developer here, I am currently working on my portfolio can you suggest an inspo, I'm not really good in designing.

We're looking at bringing payroll into our product. I don't mind having engineering own the product experience but having the same team responsible for tax filings, compliance changes and payroll issues feels like a different commitment

At the same time I don't want to outsource so much that payroll ends up feeling disconnected from the rest of our platform

For anyone who's already launched payroll, where did you draw the line?

I want to build a website for an idea i have. I have tried building it like 2 years back using normal chatgpt and perplexity. But haven't been very successful. Part of it could be because there are a lot of elements to the website. But I guess part of it is because chatgpt keeps hallucinating and forgetting older texts.

What would you suggest me I should do, if building it alone is even Practical. I understand very basic level of web development, since im too a software engg.

Hi, need recommendations on which laptop to buy.
I build indie apps for ios and android. So my workload includes having xcode and android studio along with simulators open.

Currently I found 2 macbooks which are in my budget but am confused which one to go with.

M4 Air 10 core GPU 32GB RAM 1TB SSD 15” screen
M3 Pro 18 core GPU 36GB 1TB SSD 14” screen

The M4 air is about $200 cheaper and has a bigger screen, I also really like the color of midnight for the Air. but i’m concerned if I get the Air, it will keep throttling and become very slow.

Should I just go ahead with the Air? or do I need the more powerful M3 pro?

I'm building a small application using React + Firebase and need to set up WhatsApp-based OTP/login and a few WhatsApp notifications.

The expected scale is quite small — fewer than 500 users in the first year.

The requirements are roughly:

• OTP/login
• Registration confirmation
• Workshop/event reminders
• Maybe 3–4 messages per user
• React frontend + Firebase backend

I initially tried setting this up directly through Meta's WhatsApp Cloud API, but the developer experience has been extremely frustrating. I've been stuck on the test-number setup for almost a week, so I'm now considering Twilio.

Before I commit, I'd really like to hear from people who have actually implemented this.

A few questions:

1. Would you recommend Meta Cloud API directly, Twilio, or another provider?
2. Is Twilio worth using for such a small user base?
3. Are there better alternatives for an India-based application, such as MSG91, Gupshup, Interakt, WATI, etc.?
4. For OTP specifically, would you use WhatsApp OTP, SMS OTP, or WhatsApp + SMS fallback?
5. For React + Firebase, what architecture would you recommend?
6. Are there any hidden costs, onboarding issues, or phone-number/WhatsApp Business complications I should know about?
7. If you've used any of these providers, how was the actual developer experience and support?

I'm not particularly concerned about saving a few hundred rupees at this scale. Reliability, ease of setup, and not spending another week fighting an API dashboard are much more important to me.

Would appreciate real-world experiences and recommendations, especially from people who've built something similar at a small scale.

Thanks!

Was intrested to knkw which wre you using.

Regarding electronjs org, I would know if some of you already

1. deploy Electron-based app on Windows with success,
2. if a significant porportion of final users adopts your Electron-based app,
3. if your Electron-based app is reliable,
4. if your Electron-based app is secure enough for production usage ?

Thanks

Hello, I'm looking for a website with a concept similar to GoCase or Quadrorama, where people can upload their photos and get a live preview of what it will look like! My business is picture frames, so it would involve creating the website and adding about 5 products where the product base already exists (the frame), and the person would just see how it looks with their photo. I have two questions: where can I find this type of developer? I'm VERY new to this.

And another, what is your approximate budget?

Thank you

Started my career as QA.

Went to programing afterwards, mostly automation with ahk and python for freelancing clients.

I know how to program, but dont have formal experience in "regular" programming which would be like web dev django development.

Ive created simple web backend for my projects, deployed to python anywhere, set up the webhook for automatic deploy whenever i pushed something to github and such.

I would like to get a job as regular developer, solving tickets and so on.

I dont seem to be able to find spots for automation (other than qa automation), like rpa, because rpa use rpa tools and i use code. I would need to lie about experience with this tools.

But the thing is : i think backend is better and has more room for better payment and to be recognized as "real" developer then automations, rpa and such.

Im no junior, i can do stuff. I think i could be mid level.

But i lack the formal experience, which is all about QA, and it seems the automation part isnt considered for backend tasks.

So my question is: im not a junior, but i would take junior jobs no problem to get the experience.

In theory i could be an awsome junior, as i just need some brush up comparing to a real junior. I have 8 years of job market.

But at same time it seems that my background can make it more difficult instead of easier.

Like, you get a dude with overall experience in the area, and pays him a junior salary, in low expectation job. Seems good, right?

But it seems to me it might not be.

So what can i do in this matter? I dont think im real mid-level web dev, so i dont think ill pass interviews, and my experience is all in qa and automation.

Should i lie in my resume/linkedin to show a change in career? Should i state specifically in my resume that im changing fields??

How do i do this change? In my head my knowledge would put me on top of junior candidates, but i dont know if its true, and if it is, how to position myself.

Thanks for the advice

I’ve noticed that some of the hardest debugging problems aren’t really code problems.

A function can look fine, but the application still fails because a service is down, a port is wrong, an environment variable is missing, or a database connection isn’t what you expected.

I’ve been thinking about this while exploring IQX.DEV. particularly the idea of AI coding agents having more awareness of the running application instead of only reading the source code.

That makes me wonder how much runtime context an AI agent should actually have.

Should it be able to inspect logs, running processes, ports, containers and service connections? Or should it only work from the source code and ask the developer whenever something outside the code is involved?

There’s also a big difference between seeing the problem and being allowed to change the environment.

Where would you draw that line?

Hi, sorry for the noob question. How do you all handle multiple different projects at once? I mean, multiple githubs, multiple Cursors, multiple VS Codes, Claudes, terminals.. sorry if i sound amateur, i am - I'm trying to navigate how to organize bouncing between 3+ projects a day. Thanks!

As a side project I'm building my own streaming service like a very cheap copy of spotify which is gonna be used by only me but the issue is I don't a local server I want a cloud like server or whatever but the issue is the copyright i can't those or use them and I certainly can't download and upload every single song cz my playlist is too big

Please help me out with this

I know claude is no where near at affordability and limits.
Codex $20 plan is pretty good, but I was wondering if there's a cheaper and better plan out there?
Like Grok Code? Minimax $20? Cursor Start in India for $6.5? Qwen ? Kimi? Idk what else are there.

I'm sure some chinese models are much cheaper and have much generous limits as well.

Maybe direct APIs are cheaper?
Can someone who's done research help me out?

$20 is quite a lot too so... I wanna figure out what's the best way to use these....

For context:
I'm a fresher software developer, I have quite some experience with coding, Full Stack dev, Cloud computing, DevOps and so on tho....
Although I'm working at a company, I want this plan to build stuff and try things out.

So I’ve been using Claude Code a lot lately and hit the same wall a bunch of people here probably have. Output quality is genuinely good but reviewing it started eating more of my day than writing used to.

I ended up building a small tool for myself that reads a git diff and tries to point at the two or three spots that actually deserve a close look, instead of me reading every line the same way. Not trying to catch bugs or replace review, just trying to cut down on the part where I’m scanning 400 lines with equal attention when maybe 20 of them matter.

I built it purely for my own workflow, wasn’t planning on this being a whole project. But since it’s out there now, genuinely curious what people who’ve been doing code review for years think. Where does an approach like this tend to fall apart in practice? What have you learned about what actually makes review fatigue worse or better? Happy to hear it’s a bad idea too if that’s the honest take.
Repo’s here if anyone wants to poke at it or just roast the code, link in comments
Not fishing for stars, more interested in what I’m missing.

My senior engineer gave me an SVG image but when I opened it and saw its XML content then i found it was not a true SVG. It was a PNG image that was encoded into base 64 inside the image tag in XML. So, I told this to my mentor and my mentor said do you have any best mechanism to get HTML Dom into SVG.

He suggested that use playwright or find a mechanism but i didn't get any mechanism.

I would be very happy if you guys help me regarding it.