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What was your win this week?

Viral articles and career milestones

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Looking back on your week -- what was something you're proud of?

All wins count -- big or small ๐ŸŽ‰

Examples of 'wins' include:

  • Getting a promotion!
  • Starting a new project
  • Fixing a tricky bug
  • Taking a walk without checking your phone ๐ŸŒณ

A person hikes through the woods

Happy Friday!

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Jen Looper โ€ข

My neighbor gave me some chocolate as a welcome gift and I did not eat it all!

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Jess Lee The DEV Team โ€ข

ooooh congrats on moving?!

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Giorgi Kobaidze โ€ข

And we have a winner ๐Ÿ˜‚

I thought I had a successful week.๐Ÿ˜„

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EmberNoGlow โ€ข

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Giorgi Kobaidze โ€ข

Submitted my project for the Notion MCP challenge. I donโ€™t even know how I did it. I was too close to not making it๐Ÿ˜„

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Peter Vivo โ€ข

I am figure out a most productive programming language ever :: MordorJS.
One Program to Rule Them All!

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Ashita Prasad โ€ข โ€ข Edited

Wrote an article on Sales Analytics agentic UI built using MCP Apps and it became the top post ๐Ÿ†๏ธ of the day on r/mcp subreddit ๐Ÿš€

Sales Analytics agentic UI using MCP Apps

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Joske Vermeulen โ€ข

Nice! Congrats! I always like the feeling when one of my Reddit posts reach the top

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Ashita Prasad โ€ข โ€ข Edited

Thanks Joske ๐Ÿ˜„

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John Munn โ€ข

My win this week was turning a weird idea into a fully playable browser game. Itโ€™s a game about fixing tickets while pairing with a socially exhausting coworker named Chuck.

If anyone wants to check out the write-up, hereโ€™s the article

And if you want to try the prototype itself, you can find it here

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Lorina Balan โ€ข

Managed to actually take a day off without logging in at all, not even to "just quickly check emails".

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arun rajkumar โ€ข

Hit 67 followers on dev.to this week โ€” started from 0 two weeks ago. Small number, but it happened entirely through commenting genuinely on articles, not self-promotion.

The bigger win: published a piece on how we cut developer onboarding from 2 weeks to an afternoon across our microservices stack. It found its audience through the comments I'd left on related articles. Turns out being a helpful community member first actually works as a growth strategy. Who knew.

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BridgeXAPI โ€ข

Big win this week:

Started seeing consistent organic traffic coming in from dev.to posts around OTP & SMS delivery.
Still small numbers, but seeing real users land on something you built hits different.

Also realized โ€œSMS delivery successโ€ is way more complex than just sending a request ๐Ÿ˜…

What kind of stuff are you all building lately?

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Ian Johnson โ€ข

We shipped a new release with a massive amount of changes. It was mostly smooth. (Yay!)
I documented the learning I did after applying these changes and the gains I've seen from it. Check it out if you have time!
dev.to/tacoda/the-agent-harness-tu...

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Jess Lee The DEV Team โ€ข

Our scheduler worked and this weekly wins post published on Friday while I was recovering from LASIK!

My win: getting laser eye surgery and now having 20/15 vision!!!!!!!!!

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Amara Graham โ€ข

I got LASIK years ago and it was the best thing I've ever done. Corrected my astigmatism and made night driving less of a disaster.

Also, this looks a lot like TWO wins! :P

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Jess Lee The DEV Team โ€ข

Oh I'm so glad to hear that!! My astigmatism is fully corrected now as well but I haven't had a chance to drive at night yet to truly experience the difference! I can't wait. ๐Ÿ˜„

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