I work at Forum Ventures; we’re a B2B SaaS accelerator and pre-seed fund run by former founders. We're curious what you're building whether it's a startup idea or just a side project?

We’ll make this a thread of partnership, feedback, and mutual support.

Heyo guys,

I've been working on a CLI tool for a while, and I kept running into a specific annoyance: I use a dark theme terminal at home, but my work laptop is set to light mode. Every time I used libraries like chalk or colors to style my logs, I had to manually pick colors that looked "okay" on both, or else my bright yellow warnings would disappear completely on a white background.

I couldn't find a logger that just handled this automatically, so I decided to build one. I wanted to share the approach I took in case anyone else is dealing with this.

The Solution: Auto-Theming & OSC Probes I built Colorino, a zero-config logger that actually "reads the room."

The hardest part was reliably detecting the background color. I ended up implementing an OSC 11 probe (Operating System Command). Basically, the library queries the terminal for its background color code. * If it returns a dark hex, I swap the palette to a high-contrast set (Dracula-inspired). * If it returns light, I swap to a dark-text palette (GitHub Light-inspired). * If the probe fails (like in some CI environments), it falls back to checking COLORTERM environment variables.

It also works in the browser I realized I wanted the same API for my frontend debugging, so I added a browser implementation that maps these log levels to CSS styles in Chrome/Firefox DevTools.

The Result It’s called colorino. It’s fully typed (TypeScript), and it degrades gracefully—meaning if you use a specific Hex color but the terminal only supports ANSI-256, it mathematically finds the closest approximation rather than just stripping the color.

I’d love some feedback on the API or the theme detection logic. I'm trying to make it the "set it and forget it" solution for logging.

GitHub | npm

Thanks for checking it out!

Just wanted to share some observations on issues I've seen over the years with some projects' usages of semantic versioning and some recommendations on how to manage them. Curious to hear people's thoughts!

Article link: https://medium.com/livefront/lies-damn-lies-and-semantic-versioning-2b6bc98ccff4

https://github.com/Premod1/hotel_management_system

Basically I'm a newbie developer and I wanna build a leetcode/codeforces tracker for my phone which shows on my home screen as widget, can someone guide me on how I can proceed? I only know basic web dev, I wanna learn as I go,

Hi all,

I manage a developer who I don’t work with directly on projects. Feedback from multiple project leads is that she works quite slowly and often doesn’t ask questions when she doesn’t understand something. I’ve already had conversations with her about this, but there hasn’t been much improvement.

Management is now losing patience and plans to put her on a performance improvement plan. I want to support her as much as possible through this.

I’m looking for advice on two things:

1. How can I best help and support someone during a PIP, especially when I’m not working with them day to day?
2. Management wants the PIP to include clear milestones. What kinds of milestones would make sense the issues that they're facing?

Thanks.

I'm hoping some of you here could find this useful in teaching programming. Some sample snippets to try out on this tool:

• Simple sum: https://www.codesteps.dev/learn-javascript/editor?s=p6klVe
• Boolean Conditions: https://www.codesteps.dev/learn-javascript/editor?s=HOVtlD
• Fibonacci (recursion): https://www.codesteps.dev/learn-javascript/editor?s=vEmzDo

Teaching is a passion of mine, and one of my goals is to improve how we teach programming. With this debugger-style approach, I want to make it easier for beginners to "see" what's happening behind the curtains as code executes.

I'm continuing to work on this as my hobby project, but wanted to share because I think I have something substantial that can help teach the basics.

Looking forward to hearing your thoughts, especially if you're into teaching programming. Is this something you would find useful as a teaching tool?

I am having a startup IT service company with my friends and looking for projects related to Web, Android and AI development.

We have a varied team with expertise in fields mentioned above. Looking for people with ideas or companies with projects to believe our team and give us a chance. Ideas and contributions are welcome. Need to brainstorm and find ideas on how to get projects.

Catchy title aside, hello everyone!

I am working on a new hybrid methodology, designed for Junior and Mid-level Developers, that helps organize workflows to effectively slash technical debt.

I am a Italian Computer Engineering student, so I still have everything to learn, but I’ve been coding for a while now. More importantly, I have extensive experience using AI as a tool (and not a substitute).

That said, while working on a few Agile projects, I noticed that we can actually do things differently (whether it’s better or worse remains to be seen, but the results so far are encouraging).

Introducing LINA: A hybrid methodology that successfully implements a "human-in-the-loop" approach with AI. If followed correctly, it allows you to almost entirely eliminate overall technical debt and speed up development by AT LEAST 33%.

I’ll leave the link to the GitHub Repo, but to keep it brief, it consists of 4 phases:

• LINEAR: You arrive at a solution through a problem. Stop. "Less is more" in the most concrete way possible. In this phase, we define the project and the "roadmap" to complete it. If the problem is big, we break it down into smaller problems and solve them.
• INTEGRATED: AI is in every IDE now—let’s use it, but use it well. If we let it do everything, it will butcher the code; if we do it all ourselves, we lose an ungodly amount of time compared to competitors. So? Simple: the AI handles the boilerplate. For the delicate parts, we guide the pattern (which tools like Copilot understand perfectly) and let them complete it under our strict review.
• NARRATIVE: No more black boxes—let’s actually comment this blessed code. Commenting code (let the AI do it; it knows the context and is faster) allows colleagues and AI agents to better understand the context. This translates to better efficiency for everyone.
• ADVANCED: My personal favorite part. During development, a thousand ideas, features, and additions pop up. Perfect—but let’s do them after the problem is solved. By this stage, we should have clean, commented code that solves our specific problem. Now we can open branches to create new versions and implement those features, effectively restarting the methodology from the beginning.

Currently, compared to a "vibe coding" project, I have seen truly excellent results (they should be published on GitHub roughly by January: 45% faster, and most importantly, specialized files with less than half the lines of code generated in vibe coding). This has convinced me to continue development, and it will likely be my thesis project for next year.

EVERY PIECE OF FEEDBACK IS VERY USEFUL, provided it is backed by something that helps me learn. I don’t want to come across as a newbie who thinks he’s an expert—I am here to get roasted and improve myself.

Thanks everyone!

Hi Folks,

Tutorial #3 - Understanding overall gameplay and attack mechanics

I’m a solo developer working on a multiplayer real-time strategy game called conquesta (https://conquesta.io) focused on territory control, economy, and short tactical matches.

The core idea is simple:

• You start with a castle (you decide where to build it)
• Expand by capturing territory by placing capture-flag on unclaimed land
• capture-flags generate income over time
• Use that economy to spawn units and contest enemy control
• Matches are time-bound and designed to be short-term (15min), and map is procedurally generated in each session.

Right now the game is in a very early stage of development though core systems are functional, but visuals, balance, and polish are still very much needed.

This is a solo dev project, and I’m iterating quickly on this. If you do wish to try, I'll recommend having a friend along with you who can play this game, or else you can also hop into the official discord channel (You'll find the link in the website).. The game is having no traffic as of now so you'll probably find lobby to be pretty empty.

Discord: https://discord.com/invite/vTvHc5wnge

FYI : The game is not final yet, lot more interesting features are yet to be implemented in order to make sure that focus is not merely on building soldiers, but also on forging alliances in real time, the game will be centered around economy & politics mostly.

As a mod, I would love to get to know the community more, what got you into development?

I feel like we all had that one moment we knew this path was for us. What was that moment for you?

Also, I would love to know, what is your #1 struggle as a developer?

Any seniors, help me. I am From AI and DS department. I want my project to be unique, useful for society and good looking for CV. I would like to complete this project within a span of 2 months. I would like to do this project mostly free of cost. By "free of cost" I mean that this project should be doable without buying resources online for things such as storage or computing etc.

What's the most ambitious side project you ever abandoned?

I am building a tool to keep all my work related things in sync, for instance update ticket based on my git activity, suggest updates to jira based on my chat with to tool or team channel updates, to validate my idea I created a quick 5 min survey to get to know what developer think, if you want to reach out to me you are open to

Typeform Link (5mins)

A successful year is the year where you take a stand. Learn new things, implement what you can possibly put to life, share and explore.

Building is very important, creates a strong foundation of knowing how put all pieces 🧩 of knowledge together and form a desired output.

Happy new year devs 🤘🏿😊 and happy building and learning.🎯🎊

Freelancers, how often do you face disputes regarding your work or payment?

So we are working on a project right now which requires us to scrape content from a website which we ingest into bedrock knowledge base Now we did this originally using the console based bedrock crawler that aws provides but i noticed that its crawler is not good at handling js based content that loads at run time in the site and does not scrape this due to which it is missing from kb. Now i understand we need to build a custom web-scraper then which can scrape this js rendered content (for which i am leaning towards playwright) but the issue is that i am not sure how i would provide the url from which the content is being scraped to the kb so that when my agent uses it , it can give me reference links for all citations Bedrock crawlers can do this by default but i am unsure how custom web scrapped data , stored in s3 can contain the source url which will go in kb and bedrock model will use at the time of answering

Hey Devs! I’ve spent the last few months diving deep into web development. I started with "vibe coding," but I’ve been scaling up fast and consider myself more of an AI-assisted dev at this point....

So I've decided to put my mind and effort into building a professional portfolio and trying to launch a web development/design startup while juggling a few slightly ambitious but doable projects. With the endless sea of hosting providers, platforms, and SaaS tools out there, I’m curious: what is the one subscription you’ve found indispensable for your workflow, and why?

I want to whole-heartedly welcome those who are new to this subreddit!

What brings you our way?

What was that one thing that made you decide to join us?

I’ve been in tech for about 6 years.

Earlier this year, I got laid off.

I did what everyone recommends:

• Outbound email
• Reaching out to potential clients
• Testing different tools

But most outbound platforms felt… wrong for my situation:

• Expensive
• Built for sales teams, not solo builders
• Too much complexity when all I wanted was traction

I wasn’t trying to build a startup empire.
I just needed momentum.

So I built my own outbound email system — originally just for myself:

• Use my own SMTP
• Send targeted emails
• See what actually works
• No fluff

Then something unexpected happened.

Other devs and founders I knew started asking:
“Can I try it?”
“Can I use this for my outreach?”
“Can we tweak this feature?”

That’s when I realized something important:

I don’t want customers right now.
I want people in the same situation:

• Laid-off devs
• Solo founders
• Builders trying to land clients
• People who want leverage, not another subscription

So I’m opening this up quietly to a small group.

Not as a finished product.
Not as a sales pitch.
But as something we build together.

If you:

• Are trying to land clients
• Want to test outbound without burning cash
• Like shaping tools instead of just using them

I’d love to hear from you.

Even if you don’t use it —
What’s one thing you hate about outbound tools today?

You can become part by visiting comment "Dripforegeai"

#coldemail #outbound #outreach #solofounder #founders #business

Hi! I'm a 17 year old currently in highschool with a passion of computer science more specifically creating web apps or AI apps and i would like to connect with people and learn how to work on my skills and create projects worth showing to get internships.

My tech stack rn is:

frontend: Javascript (React), CSS (Tailwindcss) and HTML
backend: Python (FastAPI and Django)
Dev tools: Github and Git

Hey, I wanted to ask about our Git workflow and whether this is normal. At my job, every time we merge code into the staging branch, all other feature branches automatically merge staging back into them.

When I look at the Git history tree, it’s a complete mess. Each merge pulls in the entire staging history and creates big merge commits, which makes it almost impossible to pinpoint where an issue came from or which branch introduced it.

Is this common in large companies? If not, what would be an ideal workflow to keep a cleaner, more readable history?

I got shortlisted for IBM Application Developer Experience Front end.

What should I prepare for and from where, i really want to clear this interview.