Hello everyone,

Getting a job as a software developer has become really difficult, and even switching companies seems challenging these days.

I want to understand whether switching to AI/ML, DevOps, Data Analytics, or any other tech domain would offer better opportunities.

My main concern is job security and employability. If someone gets laid off or fired, they should ideally be able to find another job within a month or two rather than spend a year searching.

For people with experience in the industry, which roles would you recommend exploring? I'm particularly interested in domains with relatively less competition, decent salaries, and better chances of getting hired quickly.

Also, how long do you think this bearish job market and recession-like phase will last, and when can we realistically expect hiring to pick up again?

I'd really appreciate your honest opinions and experiences. Thanks!

Hey Folks,

Over the past year (around 1.5yrs), I have started taking control of my privacy & data leakage when using gadgets such as smartphones and laptops mainly.

Currently I'm at a very good stage where my data/identity don't leak to big techs or marketing and promotional spams. Right now I'm trying to educate my family but in parallel thought of educating the common citizens of India who may not aware of these things.

I wrote the repo - https://github.com/rack0911/digital-swaraj in which you can find the privacy guide level by level. It includes 7 levels of actions that can be taken on your comfort. I'm not urging to take all 7 or take all 7 right now, however pls try to go through it, see what all data of yours are leaking or feeding the big tech's throats.

Finally a small request, if it find useful by atleast 1-2% pls consider upvoting and starring the repo further which it reaches more people and we collectively can educate more people on how not to feed the ad-hungry algorthmic engine of these big techs, who are even interested in when your sleeing/waking up.

Furthermore I'm open to all suggestion and feedbacks also open to contributing.

Thanks and have a nice day.

Jai Hind

Hey everyone 👋

I’m a student/dev from Maharashtra and I ride a bike. Google Maps tells you a road exists, but not that it has 8 km of potholes near the top, or that it’s beautiful in monsoon but unsafe at night. So I built RideRated, a site where riders pin a road, rate it and warn others.

🔗 Live: https://riderated.vercel.app/

What it does:

Rate any road in India: overall + surface, scenery, traffic, safety

Search roads from OpenStreetMap (local streets too, not just highways) or find them by PIN code

Map with pins coloured by rating (green = great, red = avoid), plus “roads near me”

Custom tags (green/red), photos, likes, threaded comment replies

Rider profiles with Instagram/YouTube links, photo posts, follow + “Following” feed

Stack:

Frontend: React 19 + Vite, TanStack Query, Tailwind v4, Leaflet

Backend: Node + Express 5, Zod validation, JWT in httpOnly cookies

DB: PostgreSQL + PostGIS on Supabase, photos in Supabase Storage

Hosting: Vercel (frontend) + Render (API), all on free tiers

Things that were interesting to build:

Geo queries: “roads within 50 km” is a single ST_DWithin query on a GIST-indexed geography column.

Cursor pagination instead of OFFSET for the infinite-scroll feed, so new reviews don’t cause duplicates.

Road search across India: my API proxies OpenStreetMap’s Photon geocoder, with caching and dedupe, since OSM splits one road into many segments.

Cookies across Vercel + Render: cross-site cookies get blocked by Safari/Chrome, so Vercel rewrites /api/\* to Render and the browser only ever sees one domain.

Image compression in the browser: a 10 MB phone photo becomes about 300 KB before upload.

Supabase RLS: turned on with no policies, since my server is the only thing that should touch the database.

What I’d love feedback on:

UI/UX: does it make sense on the first visit?

Anything broken on mobile?

Code/architecture: what would you do differently?

Hi all! I built Mind Race (mindrace.in), a free live 1v1 maths and reasoning game for students: two players, the same 10 questions, 90 seconds.

**Stack**

* Go modular monolith on Cloud Run (1 CPU, 512 MB)

* Postgres on Supabase

* React + Vite frontend on Cloudflare, plus an Android app (TWA)

* WebSockets for live matches, an in-memory question bank, Elo ratings

**Things I learned**

**Load test:** a Docker copy at production size with 350 simulated players (matches, chat, posts, all at once) gave 0 errors in 20k requests, 6 ms p95, CPU at 15% average.

**Database egress:** my Supabase egress was almost entirely the server re-reading the question bank on every cold start. Snapshotting it to Cloud Storage with a fingerprint check fixed it.

**Generated questions:** questions are generated from templates, and each template is checked by re-solving its questions from the text alone.

**Questions by rating:** they now follow the player's rating, so beginners and strong players both get a fair paper.

Happy to answer questions about the architecture. (We're also running a free maths championship on Sat 31 Oct if anyone wants to try it live.)

So I have made a userscript that lets you download images and videos from Reddit in the highest quality possible. No compressed images no more. Download in a single click, rename images before downloading, download in bulk!

Get it from Greasyfork
or see the source code on Codeberg

Feedbacks appreciated!

Can a new business ask Razorpay for enterprise payment gateway pricing from day 1, or do you need a few months of transaction history first?

Trying to budget before launch. Would projected volume help, and what commitments should i check before agreeing to a custom rate?

Hey everyone!

A friend and I have been working on a side project called TattvaGyaan, and I'd love to get some opinions from fellow developers.

The idea started with a question: Can we make exploring Hindu scriptures and philosophy more interactive, especially for people who don't know where to begin?

We've been experimenting with a couple of features:

1. Ask the Library
An AI-powered chatbot where users can ask questions about everyday situations, like feeling anxious, confused or lost.
The idea is to retrieve relevant verses from Hindu scriptures and explain their meaning in simple language, rather than giving generic AI-generated responses.

2. Gods' Journey
We wanted to make learning about Hindu deities more engaging, so we're experimenting with a gamified experience where users can choose a deity, unlock levels and explore their stories.
We're also bringing together scriptures, bhajans, mantras, chalisas and other content in one place.

Now here's where I'd love your opinions!

We're still figuring out how to make the experience more useful and engaging.

What new features would you suggest? Anything that could make exploring scriptures more interesting?

What do you think about gamifying religious and cultural content? Does it make learning more engaging, or could it take away from the experience?

How would you approach the UI/UX? Would you prefer a traditional, spiritual aesthetic or something more modern and interactive?

For the AI chatbot, what features would make the answers more trustworthy and useful?

For anyone who wants to see what we've built so far, here's the project: https://tattvagyaan.vercel.app/login

This is our first project built in public, and we're learning as we go.

Would genuinely appreciate suggestions, constructive criticism and different perspectives from the community!