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After years of building for companies, I finally built something for myself. Aura Tracker: Habits & Goals is now live on the iOS App Store. It's an opinionated productivity system that connects Identity → Goals → Habits…

Hey everyone, I'm a Senior Engineer at a large tech company with over 20 years of experience. For the last 5 years, my role has primarily revolved around devops, tech leadership (small teams), taking care of system…

Taking some inputs here, is solo game dev (something of the scope of stardew valley) still a viable career option in 2025 to earn a decent revenue ? Or is it more of winning a lottery kind of situation ? As for me, I've…

I know the answer I would get if I ask chatgpt on what to do if you are stuck in a rut in your day job. But in reality, if you are in a day job which's mostly mundane work with little to no prospects of career growth /…

Lately, I feel exhausted with all the late night meetings thats required of me at work. Discussed it with my manager few months ago and he offered to take me off on-call rotation and put me in a leadership role. While…

I'm employed at one of the big software giants as a senior engineer. Life has been good so far, except that a sense of job stagnancy is creeping in. I talked to my manager about promotion and moving up the ladder to…

Hi Guys, I've been reading a lot of articles about budding/full-time entrepreneurs and their successful ventures. I'm motivated to start a few side projects to see if I've that streak in me, but I need some clarity ,…

Hi, I believe I'm a decent programmer, may not be a rockstar or anything. Recently I've changed my company to one of the "sought afters", and I've noticed that I've been getting some comments about the quality of work…

Hi, I've been teaching myself web dev. I'm looking at building something along the lines of trello/asana. But instead of building another clone, I thought of doing a bit of market research and make something that can be…

I've been learning a bit of C# and ASP.net on my own since the past few days and planning to enroll in a few paid courses to get better. But I've been told that the job market for .net stack is pretty limited (at-least…

Hi Guys, I have over 12 years of expertise in a particular domain. Now I recently switched to another company in a new domain (based on some overlapping technical skills and good recommendations from my past colleagues)…

I'm more of a old school web user (started much before the smartphone revolution). And back in the day, I remember this nifty app called - google talk for the desktop, which was leagues ahead in terms of speed and ease…

Hi, We've all heard the stories of whatsapp founders. I wanted to know if it's more of an exception than a rule. Assume you have a brilliant idea and you have the capability to execute it, would you risk your day job to…

Being a solo developer is hard for numerous reasons: 1. You miss bouncing ideas off others (which most of the time results in quick useful feedback) 2. You are at a very high risk of missing deadlines since there're no…

Looking at most of the threads, I get a feeling that most of the entrepreneurs/startup accounts registered here typically go for Python/Rails framework. Looking at how MS gives away lot of free stuff for startups, I'm…

Apologies, if this sounds like a cliched question as there are plenty of articles on the web regarding this. I'll begin by introducing myself : I'm a professional developer with over 12 years of solid C,C++ dev…