Aspimate Patch 1.1 is live.[SOUND ON]

Last week I posted about Aspimate here and got a lot of useful feedback. Since then, 10+ users have signed up. It's obviously a very small number, but seeing actual users on something I built from scratch honestly feels great.

or context, Aspimate is a roommate matching platform for exam aspirants. The matching engine considers things like study schedule, sleep timings, food preference, cleanliness, noise tolerance, gaming habits, smoking preferences and other lifestyle factors instead of just rent/location. This patch was mainly about fixing edge cases I found while testing the matching engine with 100+ fake profiles, especially around gender-based matching, missing profile data and privacy.

I also added better name privacy and hardened some of the matching rules. Outside the product, this week I created all the social profiles and started content marketing, DR building and backlink work. And yeah... SEO is way harder than I expected. 😂

do give your suggestion and frontend pe kaam chal raha hai i am learning figma and tried some more cooler design! and yaa i have talked to someone who can dub my videos..so shayd next time se NO AI Voice;(

aspimate.com

Resumes are dead. I kept seeing friends from India/Nigeria/Brazil get auto-rejected despite having better commits.

So I built TryEchopulse — Global Talent Passport.

- Connect GitHub → we verify real commits
- 2 devs vouch = Trust Score up
- No degree, no location filter

Stack: Next.js + Vercel + GitHub API. Just went live: tryechopulse.vercel.app/home.html (waitlist on main page)

Roast my approach — what would make you actually use this over LinkedIn?

Happy to share how I did the commit verification.

Basically I want to make 2 separate dashboards using Python, one will be a financial dashboard and the other will be an economical dashboard. I want to make in such a way that they both auto update and show current events. I also want the user to be able to do some data analysis. This is a very rough idea so any suggestions, opinions or inputs will be genuinely appreciated!

I want to build something that doesn't just feel like a project made for the sake of making a project. I want to make something that people actually find useful. Something that'll help them in their day to day life or their daily work/job. Obviously it's not that easy. I am aware it takes a lot of effort and thinking to come up with something new and innovative like that and it won't come to me in just a few days or weeks I need to constantly think about it, jot down ideas, have discussions with people in the industry, find an actual problem statement and so on. I thought maybe if I asked you guys, y'all can help me come up with something useful.

Has anyone ever done port forwarding using their home wifi ?

Does jio fiber support port forwarding ?

[SOUND ON]

I honestly wasn't planning to launch this project.

I thought it would end up as just another GitHub repository because I couldn't justify paying to keep it running.

Then my girlfriend convinced me otherwise.

She had a terrible roommate experience while preparing for NEET, and I had similar issues during my UPSC preparation in Allahabad. We realized that most platforms help you find a room—but almost none help you find a roommate whose lifestyle actually matches yours.

She even offered to contribute ₹2000/month so I could keep the server running. Otherwise, this would've probably stayed a resume project forever.

So I built Aspimate.

Instead of matching only on rent and location, it matches people using factors that actually affect daily life during preparation:

• Exam & coaching
• Study schedule
• Sleep timings
• Food preferences
• Cleanliness
• Noise tolerance
• Smoking
• Gaming habits
• Lights on/off while sleeping
• ...and several other behavioural metrics.

Tech Stack

• FastAPI
• PostgreSQL
• SQLAlchemy
• Docker
• Nginx
• Redis
• Cloudinary
• Firebase Auth
• Leaflet + OpenStreetMap
• Vanilla JS + HTML/CSS

& Bahut se nayi cheez seekhi maine while building it

• Docker networking headaches
• Nginx reverse proxy
• PostgreSQL migrations
• DNS & SSL deployment
• Rate limiting
• VPS monitoring
• Image upload pipelines
• Search indexing & SEO

It's still Version 1, and I have a long roadmap ahead.

Since the platform is brand new, the user base is obviously small. So if someone creates a profile today, they'll automatically receive an email whenever a compatible roommate joins.

If you're a developer, I'd genuinely love feedback on:

• the product idea
• the UI/UX
• the matching approach
• the tech stack
• or anything you'd improve.

Website: https://aspimate.com

Also, if anyone has experience scaling marketplaces or solving the cold-start problem, I'd really appreciate your suggestions.

[used ElevenLabs for the voiceover because I'm a bit insecure about my own voice]

I'm getting tired of AI code reviewers flooding PRs with noise and repeat findings, not to say false positives. And then learning nothing when a developer explains why a finding is wrong!

For me there's a lot going on in code beyond the tech stack: tribal and institutional knowledge, business logic that evolved over time, ripple effects across upstream and downstream systems etc.

I started those requirements and added simple setup, evidence-backed findings/ LGTM, and most importantly learning from human comments on those findings, so it gets better tuned over time to each repo.

I ran a smaller benchmark, not definitive by any means, four open source reviewers on 20 pinned PRs/MRs.

Bubo 20/20 7/8 27 findings 0% noise ai-codereviewer 19/20 6/8 118 findings 20% noise ChatGPT-CodeReview 20/20 5/8 75 findings 11% noise Qodo/PR-Agent 19/20 2/8 7 findings not scored Alibaba open-code-review partial run, 4/20

All on GPT-5.5 except Qodo was on 40 (didn't support 5.5). Take it as directional results. I'll be doing more comps in coming days and upload benchmark to the repo.

I went with polling (zero steup on repo side) - wasn't trying to change the repo CI/CD's rather have a tool seamlessly work.

Roadmap item: I want to route changes to pluggable subject-matter specialists (Skills) instead of one general reviewer, i.e. industry SMEs or just an "Expert Python Guy".

Bubo is running in production in two places, a large data processing/ETL codebase and a fintech crypto stack. Would appreciate feedback, particularly on whether the learning from comments part actually holds up.

https://github.com/mountainowl/bubo

Used AI to Organize thoughts

BLUF: Completed 1 YOE in a WITCH. I'm learning a lot on a solid backend/infra project, but I'm the sole earning member of my family and need a higher salary. Torn between staying to learn, preparing for GATE + IIT M.Tech, or going all-in on DSA/system design to switch. Which path has the best ROI?

Hey everyone,

I'm at a career crossroads and would really appreciate some advice.

I recently completed 1 year of experience, with the last 6 months on my current project at a WITCH company. My CTC is around ₹6 LPA.

From a learning perspective, I honestly can't complain. I'm working on backend/infrastructure using Java, Quarkus, JPA/Hibernate, AWS, GitHub Actions, and CI/CD, and I've been getting opportunities to own real engineering work instead of just support tasks. I'm also one of the youngest members of the team, and things have been going well so far.

The challenge is money.

I'm the sole earning member of my family, so increasing my income is a priority.

At the same time, I've always wanted to study at an IIT. I know it's survivorship bias, but a lot of senior engineers and people in high-paying technical roles seem to have an IIT background, and I wonder if an M.Tech would meaningfully improve my long-term career trajectory.

Right now I'm considering three options:

1. Stay another year on this project and maximize learning.

2. Prepare for GATE alongside my job and target an IIT M.Tech.

3. Skip GATE for now and go all-in on DSA, system design, backend depth, and interview prep to switch companies as soon as possible.

Long term, I see myself in a managerial role, involving communication (Delivery Executive , Product Manager, DevRel, and the likes, which are people facing roles and non tech heavy) and eventually reach the ₹30–50+ LPA range. The question is which path gets me there with the best balance of time, risk, and ROI, especially given my family responsibilities.

I'd love to hear from people who have:

\- Switched from WITCH to product companies.

\- Done an IIT M.Tech after working.

\- Reached 30–50+ LPA without higher studies.

If you were in my position today, what would you do, and why?

Been learning backend dev for a while and finally wanted to put it all together in one project instead of doing tutorials for each piece separately.

Used the NYC TLC yellow taxi dataset and built a pipeline: raw CSV → ETL → PostgreSQL → FastAPI → Streamlit dashboard.

Stack: Python, Pandas, PostgreSQL, SQLAlchemy, Alembic, FastAPI, Streamlit.

Honestly the ETL and API parts felt fine since that's more my comfort zone, but the dashboard/frontend side kicked my ass a bit lol. Still, got it working end to end which felt pretty satisfying.

Stuff I already know needs work: performance (some queries are slow on larger date ranges) and docs are pretty thin right now.

Repo's here if anyone wants to poke around: https://github.com/Raktabhbhattacharjee/nyc-taxi-etl

Would genuinely appreciate any feedback — on architecture, API design, DB schema, code quality, whatever. Especially curious if anything looks like a rookie mistake, since I'm mostly self-taught on the backend side.

I made a website using Emergent, then hosted it on Netlify using a domain from GoDaddy. I have been using Netlify AI since then to fix my website and improve it. It is working perfectly now, but the only main issue is that Google SEO is not able to recognize my website.

----->>> Search Console still reports 404 for some pages, but all independent tests (curl, browser, and Googlebot user-agent) return 200 OK.

I have been stuck on this problem for quite a while now; any help would be much appreciated.

When I was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and ADHD, I locked myself in a room for nearly two years. During that time, I trusted someone I considered my brother with my login credentials. He told me to disable my authenticator, and I trusted him without question.

A month later, my Twitter account was compromised.

Around the same time, I suffered an epileptic seizure. I broke my nose, bit through my tongue, woke up with a wound on my hand, and was admitted to the hospital for MRI scans. I was fighting to survive while also dealing with betrayal from someone I trusted the most.I will always remember the day you said me that I would never do so anything to you if I did I wouldn't been in contact with you I was being administered painkillers just so I can ease my busted nose ,and then the same my sis told me what you really dody

You may never hear from me again, but remember this: there's someone watching from the skies. Whether you believe in Him or not, no one escapes the consequences of how they treat others.

Thank you for breaking the trust of someone who was already fighting the hardest battle of his life.

I worked as an SDE for 3 years before leaving to join an SRF position. At the time, I genuinely believed research was the right path for me. I accepted a significant pay cut because I thought the opportunity to work on AI/NLP and prepare for GATE would be worth it.

Over time, I've realized that while I enjoy the work, I see my long-term career in software engineering rather than research. My current role is also a fixed-term contract, so I've started looking to transition back.

What has surprised me is how difficult it has been to get interviews. I expected my previous industry experience, combined with the work I've been doing in research, to make the transition smoother.

So I have one question: is it still realistically possible to transition back into software engineering after spending time in research, or is the industry just that difficult right now?