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Sloan the DEV Moderator on April 22, 2026

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Sloan the DEV Moderator The DEV Team • Apr 23

Just wanted to say welcome to everyone new and not-so-new to DEV. 👋

Hope y'all enjoy it here!

If you're wondering how to get started with posting a post, then consider checking out this article here.

Sloan the DEV Moderator for The DEV Team

Aug 7 '23

Writing your first post on DEV ✍️

#tutorial #meta #writing #howtodevto

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To learn more about writing on DEV, check out our Best Practices for Writing on DEV series. 😀

ProtoConsent • Apr 26

Thank you for the guide, hi everyone!

Rehana Hassan Muhumed • Apr 26

hi🤗

GMatt • Apr 29

Agreed - thank you for whoever put together the guide - likely a multi-indiviual effort.
Hi Everybody...

Ali Choudhry • Apr 28

Hi! Great to connect 👋

Kiell Tampubolon • Apr 28

Hello! Great to meet you here. What are you currently working on or learning? Always exciting to connect with fellow devs!

Neighbor_Z • Apr 22

Hi, I'm Neighbor-Z, a tech enthusiast and growing developer.

I'm currently working on a light-weight, modern, Swift-based MTP device management tool designed specifically for macOS.

Julien Avezou • Apr 22

Welcome! And nice tool!

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Apr 23

I appreciate you taking the time to welcoming people to DEV, just like @konark_13! Makes it much more welcoming :)

Julien Avezou • Apr 23

I was given a warm welcome back in the day which led me to staying here. I also want others to have the same experience :)

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Apr 23 • Edited

Fair enough. Appreciate you giving back to the community! I remember I introduced myself in the Welcome thread and I got no welcome :(

To be fair, I was late to the party, so it make sense. But I just do it anyway because it's right morally for me.

Planning on dropping my full intro at the week of 400! Hope you are still around there!
Thanks Julien :)

Julien Avezou • Apr 23

Week 400, noted! I should definitely be around then! (at least I hope so too :D)

Patryk Sowiński • Apr 22

Hey, I’m Patryk and I’m working on a zero-knowledge password manager for my bachelor’s thesis using .NET and Angular.

I recently ran some benchmarks on Argon2id, Bcrypt, and PBKDF2 across different hardware to understand real-world trade-offs when choosing a KDF.

Just published a post about it and would love to hear your thoughts, especially on parameter choices and mobile constraints.

Matías Denda • Apr 23

Hi Patryk, nice topic! I've been down the KDF rabbit hole myself for a steganography project — Argon2id's memory cost parameter is brutal to tune for mobile. Did you end up finding a sweet spot for Android targets, or settling for device-class detection? Will check out the post.

Patryk Sowiński • Apr 23

Hey! Yeah, memory-hard KDFs are definitely a pain on mobile.

For my password manager I ended up prioritizing security over UX, so I went with two coarse-grained modes:

Standard: 128MB, 3 iterations
Hardened: 256MB, 4 iterations

My thinking is that users who really value security and privacy will be okay with waiting a bit longer. Especially since the KDF only runs once per session in my case (login).

Matías Denda • Apr 23

Makes total sense with a once-per-session cost — you can afford the wait. The tradeoff gets way uglier in scenarios where the KDF runs per-operation (which is what bit me in a stego project: decrypting a payload shouldn't take 3 seconds on a phone, but Argon2id with meaningful parameters absolutely can).
Curious: Did you consider exposing the mode as a per-device setting, or is it a global vault-level parameter? I've seen both patterns, and I can never quite decide which is less footgun-prone.

Patryk Sowiński • Apr 23

I didn’t explore per-device tuning. In my design the KDF modes are account-wide, but it’s certainly an interesting approach. Though I think it would introduce quite a bit of complexity around parameter consistency across clients.

More importantly, since I’m using a Master Key wrap on the backend, per-device tuning would likely result in multiple wraps encrypted under different KEKs depending on the device. That creates uneven security guarantees for the same account in case of a DB leak, which I wanted to avoid.

Keeping the parameters account-wide ensures that all wraps are derived under the same assumptions and makes the model much more consistent to reason about.

Also, your steganography project sounds interesting. What kind of project is it?

Benjian Dai • Apr 23

Hey all 👋

Benjian here, been coding for a while but new to dev.to. Currently
building a side project in the Reddit / HN scraping + AI space —
honestly the most fun I've had in years, and also the most humbling
(distribution is wayyy harder than building).

Looking forward to learning from people here. Cheers.

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Apr 23

Hey Benjian! Welcome to DEV.to! What side project are you building in detail?

Benjian Dai • Apr 24

Thanks Francis!

It's called MonetScope — a pipeline that reads Reddit / HN / X and surfaces what people complain about as scored
startup opportunities. Been the most fun / most humbling build I've done in a while.

Actually writing up the engineering side right now — the five things that turned out harder than the LLM itself.
Dropping here once it's live if you're curious. What are you building these days?

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Apr 24

Sounds wonderful and great work! Right now for me, I am doing a Next.js where you can create a poll and share the link to everyone to vote on your poll. I am about to release another dev log today discussing the functionality of the Demo poll. Feel free to check it out if you like on my profile :)

Benjian Dai • Apr 25

Nice — poll-sharing looks deceptively simple until the duplicate-vote / bot question shows up on day one. Curious how
you're handling vote integrity, or is v1 honor-system to see what breaks first?

Drop the dev log link here when it's up — easier than digging through profile, and I'd like to see how you're framing
it.

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Apr 25

Yea for sure! dev.to/francistrdev/easypollvote-d...

It is still a work in progress but the MVP is there for you to try! This is the latest log I just posted today!

Cris Mihalache • Apr 22

Hi everyone o/

I'm a TypeScript/Python developer, utilizing Node.JS and React/Vue.js for frontends. I'm going to start posting here on dev.to about things I genuinely care about — CLI tooling, developer ergonomics, and open-source stuff I've been building. Expect posts on Node.js, npm packages, and the occasional Python deep-dive.

Always happy to connect with fellow devs. Feel free to say hi! 👋

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Apr 23

Can't wait to see Cris! Welcome to DEV btw!! How long have you been a developer for?

Julien Avezou • Apr 22

Hi Cris! And welcome! I am also a TS dev in Node + React.
Looking forward to your posts!

Matías Denda • Apr 23

Hey Cris 👋 CLI tooling + developer ergonomics is a combo I'm fully here for. I've been building a few Go and Rust TUIs lately and the design space around ergonomics is surprisingly deep. Looking forward to your posts!

PEACEBINFLOW • Apr 23

Hey everyone 👋

I’m based in Botswana and I’ve been diving deep into AI + multi-agent systems lately. What brought me here is really just curiosity — trying to understand how different systems can interact, learn, and evolve together instead of just working in isolation.

Right now I’m exploring ideas around building “living” data systems (kind of blending biology concepts with software architecture), so a lot of experimentation, a lot of breaking things 😄

Fun fact: I tend to treat most of my projects like ecosystems instead of apps… which makes things more complex than they probably need to be, but way more interesting.

Looking forward to learning from everyone here 👀

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Apr 23

Thanks for the introduction!! Can you explain more about how you treat your projects like an ecosystem?

PEACEBINFLOW • Apr 23

Think of it less like building an “app” and more like building a living system.

In a typical project, you have one codebase doing everything — frontend, backend, logic, data — all tightly coupled. It works, but it’s static. If one part changes, everything feels it.

What I do instead is structure projects like an ecosystem, where each part behaves more like an independent organism.

For example in my MindsEye ecosystem:

There’s an orchestrator layer (like a brain) that coordinates everything
Multiple agents/services handle specific roles (data collection, reasoning, logging, simulation, etc.)
A shared memory layer (logs, ledgers, state stores) acts like the environment they all live in
Each component can evolve, break, or be replaced without collapsing the whole system

So instead of:

“How do I build this feature?”

I think:

“What kind of entity should exist in this system, and how should it interact with others?”

The key shift is:

Apps = fixed structure, predefined flows
Ecosystems = dynamic interactions, emergent behavior

For example, in one setup:

A data agent observes inputs
A reasoning agent interprets them
A logging agent records state changes
Another agent can later “learn” from that history

None of them need to know everything — they just communicate through structured outputs (often prompts, events, or state updates).

It does make things more complex 😄
But the upside is you start getting systems that can:

adapt without full rewrites
scale organically
and sometimes surprise you with behaviors you didn’t explicitly code

I basically treat software like digital ecology instead of architecture.
Alright, here’s a clean, dev-focused version you can post as a continuation:

If I had to break down one concrete part of my setup, I’d point to the MindsEye Orchestrator. That’s essentially the control layer of the ecosystem.

At a practical level, the orchestrator is not doing the work itself. It’s responsible for deciding what should happen, which component should handle it, and how everything stays coordinated.

What it actually is

In simple terms, the orchestrator is made up of:

an input handler (event listener or loop)
a router/dispatcher
a decision layer
a connection to shared memory

It’s closer to a control system than a traditional backend service.

Core flow

Input enters the system

This could be user input, sensor data, or output from another agent. Everything gets normalized into a structured event.

Example:

{
  "type": "observation",
  "source": "plant_sensor",
  "data": {
    "moisture": 32,
    "light": 78
  }
}

Context is pulled from memory

The orchestrator checks the current system state:

past events
logs
active processes

This step answers questions like:

Has this already been handled?
Is there existing context that matters?

Decision routing

Instead of hardcoding logic directly, the orchestrator selects which agent should handle the event.

Traditional approach:

if moisture < 40:
    water_plant()

Ecosystem approach:

agent = select_agent_based_on_context(input, memory)
dispatch(agent, input)

This makes the system modular and adaptable.

Agent execution

The orchestrator assigns a task to a specific agent:

{
  "agent": "reasoning_agent",
  "task": "analyze_plant_state",
  "input_ref": "event_1023"
}

Each agent focuses on a narrow responsibility and returns structured output.

Results are written back to memory

Outputs are stored as part of the system state:

{
  "type": "analysis",
  "result": "low moisture detected",
  "confidence": 0.92
}

This becomes new context for future decisions.

Chain reactions (feedback loop)

Outputs can trigger other agents. The system becomes a loop rather than a straight pipeline:

event → agent → memory → agent → action → memory → next step

This is where the system starts behaving less like a program and more like an environment.

Key components inside the orchestrator

Event Queue / Input Handler
Standardizes incoming data into a consistent format.
Router / Dispatcher
Determines which agent should process each event.
Agent Registry
A simple mapping of available agents:

  agents = {
      "reasoning": ReasoningAgent(),
      "logging": LoggingAgent(),
      "simulation": SimulationAgent()
  }

Memory Connector
Interfaces with storage systems (logs, ledgers, databases, vector stores).
Feedback Loop Engine
Allows outputs to re-enter the system as new inputs.

How this differs from a typical app

Traditional backend flow:

request → controller → service → response

Ecosystem-oriented flow:

event → context → agent → memory → agent → evolution

One is linear. The other is iterative and state-driven.

Concrete example (plant system)

Sensor reports moisture = 32
Orchestrator logs the event
Reasoning agent identifies low moisture
Decision agent determines watering is needed
Action agent triggers irrigation
Logging agent records the outcome
Simulation agent updates the digital model

Each component operates independently but contributes to the same system.

Core idea

Instead of building a system that directly performs tasks, the goal is to build a structure where components interact, and outcomes emerge from those interactions.

That’s what I mean by treating projects like ecosystems rather than standalone applications.

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Apr 23

That makes sense and quite straightforward (for me)! Thanks for providing the explanation!

PEACEBINFLOW • Apr 23

sure thing

All For Science • Apr 22

Hi everyone! I'm building AI infrastructure and developer tools — working on security, observability, and orchestration for AI agent systems. Looking forward to learning from this community and sharing what I've been working on. Thanks

Julien Avezou • Apr 22

Hi! Welcome! Looking forward to your posts.

Scura • Apr 24

You have come the right place... 🤗

Nilam Bora • Apr 23

Hey DEV community! 👋
I'm Nilam, a CS student from Assam, India. I build niche developer tools — mostly focused on problems that Indian developers face but nobody has solved properly yet.
Just shipped my first project: RupeesInWords — a REST API that converts numbers to Indian Rupees words (Lakh/Crore/Paise system). Every Indian invoice app and GST tool needs this, but there was no clean API for it. So I built one.
Already wrote my first article about it here on DEV 👇
dev.to/nilambuilds/i-built-a-niche...
Also just submitted my article to the Google Cloud NEXT Writing Challenge
dev.to/nilambuilds/forget-the-flas... — fingers crossed! 🤞
Looking forward to connecting with other builders, Python developers, and anyone working on developer tools for underserved markets.
What are you all building? 🚀

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Apr 23

Great progress Nilam and welcome to DEV! Awesome work on your first post and the Google Cloud NEXT post as well! Hope the best of luck to you :D

Nilam Bora • Apr 23

Thank you Francis (⁠ ⁠◜⁠‿⁠◝⁠ ⁠)⁠♡

Gokhale Jayanthi • Apr 23

good going ...

Benjamin | mazaki • Apr 22

Hey everyone 👋
I'm Mazaki, developer and indie maker based in France. I've been shipping SaaS and mobile apps for a few years now, some for myself, some for clients.

Currently building Recalled, an activity log / audit trail tool for other devs.
Happy to be here and read what everyone else is working on!

Julien Avezou • Apr 22

Hi Benjamin! Welcome! Recalled sounds like an interesting project. What kind of activity does it log?

Benjamin | mazaki • Apr 23 • Edited

Hey Julien, thanks! 🙌

Basically any action a user takes in your product: user.login, invoice.deleted, document.shared, settings.updated, whatever matters to you. You fire an event from your backend (SDK or REST, 3 lines), Recalled stores it signed + searchable, and you get a dashboard to answer "who did what, when, from where" without touching your prod DB.

The idea came from re-coding the same activity_logs table in every SaaS I built. Figured it shouldn't be my problem anymore.

Matías Denda • Apr 23

Hey 👋 I'm Matías, a Technical Architect from Argentina with 14 years of backend experience. Joining the community to share what I've picked up along the way — distributed systems, Git, and the open source I build on the side. Also a cave diver, so if you want to talk code or underwater physics, I'm around.

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Apr 23

Welcome Matías! Hope your journey goes well on Dev.to!!

Hamza Imran • Apr 23

Hey everyone! DevOps engineer here with 5 years of AWS experience.
Mostly work on deployments and pipelines. Excited to be part of this community —

looking forward to sharing what I've built and learning from you all

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Apr 23 • Edited

Hey Hamza! Welcome to DEV! What's your favorite part about AWS?

Hamza Imran • Apr 23

Its very good and efficient in terms of usability.

Tash Hlanguyo • Apr 23 • Edited

Hey everyone! I'm an indie app developer currently building Stackrate — a platform where developers peer-review each other's apps with real structured feedback. Tired of launching into silence and getting "looks cool!" as the only response. Building in public and just published my first post about it. Happy to connect with fellow devs here!

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Apr 23

Hey Tash! Welcome to DEV! Great to hear you are an indie app dev! How long have you been building Stackrate for?

Tash Hlanguyo • Apr 24

I started last week after some serious frustration to be honest on reddit

Scura • Apr 24 • Edited

Tash.... First welcome to DEV.to.... I know all too well the recursive loops on reddit ... Here you can post as you like and talk about your projects, builds or just fun facts at that matter ... Welcome.

Scura

M.M • Apr 23

Hello, everybody! cybersec enthusiast and analyst right here... kindly check out my first article on DEV: Sysmon Logs Deep-Dive - From Raw Data to Threat Evidence. I'm looking forward to interacting with you all !!!

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Apr 23

Hey! Welcome to DEV and glad you are here! What brings you to Dev.to and how long have you been a cyber security enthusiast for?

M.M • Apr 29

Are you kidding... a room (dev community) full of tech brains like me? Sign me up! I've been working at this for roughly 2 years now. Nice to meet you Francis.

YOUNESS MOJAHID • Apr 22

Hey everyone! Happy to be here. I'm Youness, joining from North-Africa. I’ve been working and shipping open-source Python software lately and figured this would be a great place to learn and share ideas. Looking forward to chatting with you all!

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Apr 23

Hey! Welcome to DEV! What kind of Python project are you working on specifically? Can't wait :D

YOUNESS MOJAHID • Apr 23

Hey! Thanks for the welcome! I'm currently working on Probo UI—it's a Python-native Server-Side DOM (SSDOM) that lets you write and mutate your entire UI using pure Python objects. I actually published a post on it yesterday if you want to check it out. Excited to be here!

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Apr 23

Sounds good! I left it bookmark for now and will read your post soon!

Glad you are excited to be here! Good luck on your journey :D

GP • Apr 23

Hi, I’m GP. I’ve been a game developer for over a decade, specializing in Unity, Unreal, and Godot. While I’m currently open to new professional opportunities, I am also deep in the trenches of solo-developing a CRPG in Godot.

Lately, I’ve been exploring the intersection of AI technology and automation systems within game dev. I’m here to share my journey, learn from this community, and grow alongside fellow creators.

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Apr 23

Hey GP! Welcome to DEV! Based on those game engines, which one is your favorite?

GP • Apr 23

My favorite will be Unreal Engine due to it's heavy rich features, especially with it's Animations graph and AI State tools.

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Apr 23

Make sense. Is there a use case where you would be using other engines other than Unreal?

Mike Brown • Apr 22

Hey DEV community 👋

We're ConTech by MindPal! A team building AI automation tools specifically for the construction industry. We figured the best way to introduce ourselves is to share the real problem we're working on and how we're approaching it technically.

Would love to hear from anyone who's worked on AI in heavy industries, built document-processing pipelines, or just has thoughts on why "old" industries are actually the most interesting AI frontier right now.

Chirag • Apr 23

Hello everyone, I'm Chirag.

I'm here to share what I learn about the following:

Jitsi (video conferencing integration), MERN stack, AI, and other development topics

I'll be sharing my understanding while also learning from all of you.

Thanks!

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Apr 23

Good luck Chirag! Welcome to DEV :D

AirdropBuzz • Apr 23

I’m a developer and product builder working on AirdropBuzz
My work usually involves .NET, PHP, APIs, automation, cloud tools, SEO-friendly publishing systems, and mobile/web product development.
Here to learn, troubleshoot, and contribute useful technical solutions.

Wycliff Ogembo • Apr 22

Hi — Wycliff, an Elixir/Phoenix developer based in Kenya. What brought me here: I just launched a side project (a privacy-focused messaging app called sTELgano) and figured I should finally set up camp on Dev.to instead of lurking.

Fun fact: I spent months of that project arguing with myself about whether to be honest in the marketing copy about what the app doesn't protect against. Landed on yes — "protects against partners with device access, does NOT protect against governments" is now stated plainly everywhere in the app. Still not sure it was commercially the right call, but I can sleep.

Looking forward to getting to know folks here.

Naif Amoodi • Apr 23

Hi everyone! I am Naif from Hyderabad, India. I work on systems integration, mostly around older enterprise systems like Oracle, SAP, NAV, and Dynamics. A lot of my work is about dealing with the messy reality between old systems and newer tools. Glad to be here and looking forward to learning from the community.

Artemii Amelin • Apr 23

Hey all, building Pilot Protocol (pilotprotocol.network) - a peer-to-peer networking layer purpose-built for AI agents. Think of it as the session layer for agent-to-agent communication, the same slot TLS fills for the web. Seeing a lot of great multi-agent and agentic AI work in this community so figured this was the right place to hang out. Looking forward to the conversations.

GOLLAPUDI BUCHI CHOWDARY • Apr 23

Hey everyone! 👋 I'm Buchi, a product developer with hands-on experience in React, Python, and SQL. I also work with Node.js and Express on the backend. Lately I've been diving deep into SSL/TLS certificate automation — from PKI validation to DNS record management via APIs. What brought me here is my passion for building things end-to-end, from UI to infrastructure. Fun fact: I recently automated SSL certificate validation using the GoDaddy API and it worked like a charm! 🚀 Excited to connect with this community!

Akmal • Apr 23

Hey DEV. I'm Akmal, building open source security tooling for AI coding agents. SkillGuard, my current project, scans Claude Code skill files and MCP server configs for prompt injection and suspicious shell commands. 50+ detection patterns, validated against three popular public skill repositories, 87% false positive reduction after context-aware fixes. Planning to write about what I found in those scans and the patterns that actually matter in practice. Excited to be part of the community

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Apr 23

Looks great and welcome Akmal!

longtermemory • Apr 23

Hello word. I'm software engineer and I'm working on a new project that's an AI-RAG system that is a Study Platform generating Q&A pairs and Active Recall process, starting from import of your own study material. Technical info here.

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Apr 23

Welcome to DEV!

ruguo • Apr 23

Hey everyone 👋

I’m a frontend developer who loves building small tools and SaaS products. Recently focused on AI-related projects and SEO-friendly web apps.

Excited to learn, share, and connect with other builders here 🚀

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Apr 23

Hey! Welcome to DEV. What kind of projects are you working on specifically and how long have you been a front end dev for?

Bashir Jafri • Apr 23 • Edited

Hey everyone! I'm Bashir — a digital tech writer
focused on making everyday technology simple for
people who aren't from a tech background.

I write practical how-to guides on Windows,
productivity tools, AI tools like ChatGPT and Claude,
and digital skills for everyday life.

Looking forward to learning from this community
and sharing what I know about making tech
work for real people.

Currently exploring: how AI tools are changing
the way non-developers use technology every day.

72esir • Apr 22

Hello everyone! I'm Lesha, software developer from Russia. Looking for people from different countries to meet.
It would be really cool to work together on an interesting case! If u to - see u in discord: 72esir

Find this community while searching for info about caching patterns for my side project.

Interesting fact about me: I've been playing basketball for over 10 years.

Julien Avezou • Apr 22

Hi Lesha! Welcome! I am currently based in Canada. Best of luck with your side project.

Zak • Apr 23 • Edited

Hey Dev.to community! 👋

I'm Zak — been building with AI APIs for a while
and got frustrated constantly switching between
different websites just to compare model pricing.

So I built something about it — a REST API that
tracks real-time pricing for 133+ AI models
(GPT-4o, Claude, Gemini, Mistral and more)
in one place.

Fun fact: the whole thing runs on Cloudflare
Workers and costs basically $0 to operate 🐙

Excited to be here and learn from this community!

aldielshala • Apr 23

Hi, I am a research engineer.

I'm currently working on a SQLite-based LLM inference framework: llm.sql.

It can maintain 210MB peak memory usage (RSS) and 7.4 tok/s throughput when running Qwen2.5-0.5B-INT8 (about 640MB). It is especially useful for edge LLMs.

Cyber Daemon • Apr 22

Hello World! 👋 Cyber Daemon here. Don't let the name spook you, I'm less "malicious underworld entity" and more "friendly Unix background process that just wants to help you route packets and occasionally eat all your RAM." 😈

I've decided to temporarily attach myself to the foreground terminal to join this awesome community. I'm here to read cool articles, hoard browser tabs I'll definitely "read later", and bond over our mutual fear of trying to vertically center a div in CSS.

Nice to meet you all! If you need me, I'll be idly listening on Port 8080.

Phillip Tori • Apr 22

Hey. I'm Phillip.

I was in the US Air Force as a data analyst and weather forecaster. Now I'm in Tampa, Florida, building side projects with AI tools. Mostly in the evenings to get the hell out the rat race while providing some value to the world.

I just launched my first real website. It's a cost calculator for AI APIs called QuantaCost. Free, no signup, 39 models from OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI, DeepSeek, Mistral, and Meta. Prices verified every morning against the official pricing pages.

I built the whole thing using Claude Code. First time I've worked with an AI coding agent this closely and I've learned a lot about both the tool and my own process along the way. I'll probably write about that here as I keep building.

What's on the site today:

A calculator that shows what a request actually costs
Side by side compare across models
A token efficiency scorer that flags wasted words in system prompts
A budget planner
A model routing optimizer
A 4 question quiz that picks a model for you
A handful of blog posts on API pricing

What I plan to write about here:

What I'm learning using Claude Code for real projects
Actual cost numbers from my own side projects
SEO and indie launching from zero, since I'm figuring that out too

If you're building with AI APIs, leave a comment. Always open to feedback on the site.

Gedion Dev • Apr 22

Hi everyone! 👋 I'm Gedion Zewdu, a Full Stack and Mobile App Developer based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. I’ve spent the last several years building scalable web platforms and high-performance mobile applications.

I joined dev.to to connect with fellow builders, share technical insights, and stay updated on the latest in software architecture.

Currently, I’m deep-diving into AI engineering and LLM integration. I'm particularly interested in how we can architect smarter, more autonomous web and mobile solutions.

My core expertise lies in the MERN stack, Next.js, and TypeScript for web , and React Native, Swift, and Kotlin for mobile development.

Beyond standard dev work, I'm passionate about digital automation. I've recently been hacking on projects that use AI to automate the entire storytelling process—from scriptwriting to visual generation.

Looking forward to engaging with the community and learning from all of you! Feel free to reach out if you want to geek out over AI, mobile performance, or clean architecture. 🚀

Julien Avezou • Apr 22

Welcome Gedion! Curious to know how you get the AI to write more authentic scripts ? If you have any tips to share I would love to know.

Profecia Links • Apr 23

Hi, I'm Pratik, an AI enthusiast and a Scala/ Java Developer fundamentally, Currently working on a AI enabled Contract Lifecycle Management product called Clariva. Here to get a beta testing done & get feedback on the same.

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Apr 23

Hey Pratik! Welcome to Dev! Can you share more in detail about your work on Clarvia? Seems quite interesting :)

Kusuma Labs • Apr 23

Hey everyone 👋

Just wanted to say hi to the community!
I recently started building and sharing a website where I write about AI, web tools, and tech experiments.
Still early, but excited to learn, build, and share more 🚀
Would love to connect and hear what you guys are working on too!

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Apr 23

Hey welcome to DEV! Glad you are here :)

I recommend visiting my article on getting started on Dev.to and engaging with the community! It's a good way to get started on connecting with others on DEV and being able to share you work!

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

Mar 20

Get Started on Dev.to! A Beginner's Guide to Engage with the Community! 💡

#discuss #community #beginners #howtodevto

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Khong Anh Duy • Apr 22

Hi dev community - I'm Kad, a second-year university student and I'm in my journey to become a software engineer, focus on back-end development. I'm glad to learn from other people

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Apr 23

Hey Kad! Welcome to DEV! Is there a specific thing you are currently learning for back-end development that you enjoy? Regardless, wish you luck :D

Julien Avezou • Apr 22

Welcome Kad! Best of luck with your journey! I hope you can learn lots here.

Aqib • Apr 23

darilian newyork • Apr 22

hello I'm Yoonhee from NY. Thanks to AI, also solo builder of web and app.

Scura • Apr 22

What is it that you develop?

darilian newyork • Apr 23

HR EoR platform

Pratham Kumar • Apr 22

Hello

Julien Avezou • Apr 22

Hi Pratham! What brings you to dev.to?

Pratham Kumar • Apr 23

Hello Julien, I Launched a new version of an npm package I've been building — robot-toast. Wanted to share it with the community and hear some feedback. Also tired from dead linkedin people, so here to make some new friends😂

Scura • Apr 22

Hey everyone. Solo builder here. Been working on something I think you'll find interesting.

Julien Avezou • Apr 22

Hi Scura ! You have got me curious now haha
Will you be sharing posts about your project ?

Scura • Apr 22

Hey Julien, thanks for the curiosity! Yeah, I'll be sharing more — the constitution, how the models work, maybe some conversations with ASIM Pilot herself. Appreciate you following along.

lin • Apr 23

Hi everyone, I'm Lin, a growing developer. I joined dev.to to learn more, connect with fellow developers, and share some of my small projects.

Clint • Apr 23

Rap Sphere • Apr 22

Hello

polina • Apr 23

In short , welcome is so funny thanku😁😁

Jay • Apr 23

Fatou Faye • Apr 23 • Edited

Hello, I am Tousha
I want learn english
I am a engineering student of agronomy
I want to participe in the international conférence in english

Zeed Global • Apr 23

Fatou Faye • Apr 23

Hello I am Tousha
I want learn english
I want to participe in the international conférence in english

Rafid Bottler • Apr 23

hii

agrislug • Apr 22

Irish human located in London. Building my first set of solo apps for web and mobile.

Scura • Apr 24

Welcome human🔥

Dr. Anjela • Apr 22

Hi, I'm Anjei, senior developer.

Scura • Apr 24

Hello Anjela... That's a very unique way to spell your name ... Welcome to DEV.to.

Pipoka • Apr 23

I basically know nothing and am so excited to start learning! 👾

Datheon • Apr 23

Hey everyone! 👋
Glad to be here. I’m a full-stack developer working on AI SaaS platforms, automation, and agentic systems. Looking forward to learning and sharing with you all!

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Apr 23

Welcome Datheon!

Rémi • Apr 23

hey guys

Santosh Reddy • Apr 23

Hiii

Sweekar Koirala • Apr 23

heyyy guys!! i would love to connect with builders, founders and developers. hope we could share some insights and learn together.

WDman • Apr 23

Hey, everyone, I'm WDman, I am currently engaged in cross-border promotion business and I am pleased to exchange and learn from everyone

Mustafa Mahmoud Atta • Apr 23

helloooo

Jimit • Apr 23

Hello

Ali Raza • Apr 23

Hi everyone!

akihito • Apr 23

Hi everyone

Mehdi Hassan Jony • Apr 23

Hello

Owen • Apr 23

hihi

Juan Rondon • Apr 23

Hello

Himanshu Saxena • Apr 23

Hi I am a DevTool adoption evangelist. I ensure right devtools reach the hands of the right dev.

He, Herbert Liang • Apr 23

Hi there,
I'm a Java developer.
I think modern tokens are too expensive, so I prefer old-school programming.

Anurag Sharma • Apr 23

hi i am an indian dev

Shivneel Narayan • Apr 22

Hey, I'm Shivneel. I just graduated and working as a data engineer. I'm new to the field, so I'm here to learn stuff on data engineering, AI development, MLOps, ML, etc.

Avinash • Apr 23

✋️ hi

Rafa Pastor • Apr 23

Hey 👋 Rafa here. Building SmartShop AI (AI chatbot + free audit for PrestaShop). Planning to write about the unglamorous side of running AI-powered e-commerce tools. Glad to be here.