the most dangerous form of procrastination for a developer isn't watching Netflix. It's the endless loop of "optimizing" your setup with the shiny new tool that just dropped

us, finally perfecting our Next.js 15 setup. the Next.js team dropping v16 the next day:

big shoutout to whoever decided ai agents need friends too

probably my favorite 50 lines of javascript i've written this weekend. just a simple button that saves me from digging through github's 'code' dropdown. submitted to the chrome web store, should be live in a few days. ✨

my new obsession isn't adding features, it's removing steps. if a workflow takes 5 clicks, how can you make it 1? if a page takes 10 seconds to understand, how can you make it 2? the most valuable feature is a shorter path.

the alpha for indian devs selling digital products: stop wasting time trying to get stripe international to work. it's a closed door for most solo devs right now. the real alternatives are the new wave of platforms built for creators. check out Dodo Payments and Polar.

Visakhapatnam landlords seeing this news:

question for the builders: for your launch marketing, are you team "full strategy planned out" or team "ship it and yolo"? be honest.

the road to engineering hell is paved with "this is how we did it at amazon/google/netflix."

this is a huge partnership, congrats to the team! my engineer brain, however, is stuck on one critical detail:

what's the one non-obvious tool in your stack that you can't live without? not talking vs code or github. i'm talking about the hidden gems. for me, it's ray[dot]so. makes sharing code snippets feel like art.

the graveyard of startups is filled with perfect, beautiful products that nobody ever saw. a lesson learned too late: distribution isn't a part of the game. distribution is the game.

your beautiful, clean, perfectly architected code doesn't matter if it's running on a server for an audience of zero. marketing is the real alpha here

hot take: "software engineering" is a fancy title for > being a professional detective > who investigates crimes > you committed yourself 6 months ago > in a file you don't remember writing.

cloning github repos shouldn’t take 5 clicks. so I fixed it. I built QuickClone: a free, open-source Chrome extension that adds a simple 'Clone' button right where it belongs. One click, and the command is on your clipboard. It's my first launch on Product Hunt, and I'd be

you spend years mastering the tech stack. you finally launch your product. and then you realize you have to start over and learn a whole new stack: marketing, sales, and support. the learning never stops.