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I’m a full stack (web and mobile) engineer. When I was on product teams building the actual app experiences, I was so much happier and fully engaged. I thrive f

by mradek 4y ago

I’m a full stack (web and mobile) engineer. When I was on product teams building the actual app experiences, I was so much happier and fully engaged. I thrive from customer feedback calls and working with product manager to build the best solution for the problem at hand. Probably built a dozen calendars and complex grid layouts, tested a few different cart/checkout flows, and improved performance for a tool by rethinking the way it was stored in the database that made it way more flexible for other purposes. Now I work on purely backend, mostly services for other services, infra stuff, and it’s honestly so boring and dull. I know it’s important work as well, but it’s just not my cup of tea. Unfortunately it seems that building products doesn’t pay as well as doing this purely backend plumbing. And I want to work on products which people out in the fields or in some specific industry use to do their jobs better. When I was doing this, I felt like I was actually making peoples work experience (and probably sanity) better. Anyway I am a self taught and I just learned using YouTube videos, official docs/readme, looking at peoples code on GitHub, and also building out my own silly ideas. Probably have a hundred directories of half+ baked projects. Feel free to reply if you work on an interesting product (please no dashboards for monitoring cloud systems :sob: lol) and looking for a guy who loves to build great app experience. Also down to discuss ideas!

jakabia 4y ago
Hello there! I've been building a Reddit scrapper, to analyze the connections between subreddits (subreddits are the nodes, and the users who posted or commented in the same subreddits, are the links). My future plan is to build an API for it, so others can use the data for their research or side projects. It's not done yet, but almost - the data will be stored on Firestore. I have plans on how to scale it up - currently it's 5-10 seconds / user, and given the Reddit's large user base, it's an issue which needs to be handled. For the API, I'd add tiered pricing as well, because storing, writing and reading data is a cost. So, what do you think about it? Also, I've been a solo programmer my whole life, because basically all of my programmer friends are like "why code after 5pm?". They just do their 9-5 jobs and that's all, they're satisfied. Which is okay! Just for someone like me, who loves to code, build stuff and discover new technologies, it's sad, because I can't partner up with others to build more complex stuff and to exploit our full potential. About me: currently I'm a mid-level frontend dev, and I'm trying to move from frontend to backend/devops/cloud, not sure exactly where, but definitely away from frontend. So if you'd like to have a programmer buddy to discuss tech-related stuff, or to build fun things together, feel free to reach me out, I love programming and I want to level up and I think it's almost impossible alone.

by mradek 4y ago

jakabia 4y ago

Hello there! I've been building a Reddit scrapper, to analyze the connections between subreddits (subreddits are the nodes, and the users who posted or commented in the same subreddits, are the links). My future plan is to build an API for it, so others can use the data for their research or side projects. It's not done yet, but almost - the data will be stored on Firestore. I have plans on how to scale it up - currently it's 5-10 seconds / user, and given the Reddit's large user base, it's an issue which needs to be handled. For the API, I'd add tiered pricing as well, because storing, writing and reading data is a cost. So, what do you think about it? Also, I've been a solo programmer my whole life, because basically all of my programmer friends are like "why code after 5pm?". They just do their 9-5 jobs and that's all, they're satisfied. Which is okay! Just for someone like me, who loves to code, build stuff and discover new technologies, it's sad, because I can't partner up with others to build more complex stuff and to exploit our full potential. About me: currently I'm a mid-level frontend dev, and I'm trying to move from frontend to backend/devops/cloud, not sure exactly where, but definitely away from frontend. So if you'd like to have a programmer buddy to discuss tech-related stuff, or to build fun things together, feel free to reach me out, I love programming and I want to level up and I think it's almost impossible alone.