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p/livesyncdeskLiveSyncDesk temporarily tackled the panic situation and saved the Audit.
Konstantin Gerasimenko:A very familiar corporate genre: the audit is in 2 hours, the required signature is missing, and the only person authorized to sign is, of course, on leave and out of reach. A true classic of perfectly designed processes. Jokes aside, moments like this show how fragile even “well-organized” workflows can be. If a tool helps prevent ordinary bureaucracy from turning into a mini-disaster, that’s genuinely valuable. Curious whether LiveSyncDesk is mostly useful for these beautifully chaotic emergency situations, or whether it also becomes part of the normal day-to-day workflow over time?
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p/self-promotion
p/self-promotionWe Built a Bot Detection Engine Because Our Own Marketing Data Was Bad
Nkosilathi Nyoni:@lreverchuk @bhavyabafma Glad you're giving it a shot Bhavya!
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p/generalThe AI church with no Christ
Bogomil Shopov - Бого:@bruce_warren Thanks Bruce!
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p/generalThe AI church with no Christ
Bogomil Shopov - Бого:@adana Thanks :) I do use it, yes :)
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p/generalThe AI church with no Christ
Bogomil Shopov - Бого:@barry_coleman1 I heard stories in a galaxy far far away that it's true.
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p/fastlane-3
p/fastlane-3AI Influencers: Yay or Nay
Zach:Yeah it feels like a much cheaper and faster alternative to try! And with growth marketing the speed of experimentation matters more than anything imo
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p/generalI maintain 20+ open-source projects across 4 ecosystems. Should I have focused on just one?
Giovambattista Fazioli:@srbhr 26K stars on a single project — that’s serious traction. Respect! Your situation is interesting because you’re considering the opposite move from mine. A few things I’d think about before expanding: The hardest part of going from one project to many isn’t the code — it’s the context switching tax on your community. With Resume Matcher, your users know where to find you, where to file issues, where to contribute. The moment you split attention across multiple repos, that relationship gets diluted. Contributors start wondering “is this project still active?” when you go quiet for two weeks because you’re deep in something else. What worked for me: each new project has to be completely independent — no shared dependencies, no shared release cycles, no shared community channels. WP Bones users have no idea octoscope exists, and that’s by design. If project B’s issues ever slow down project A’s releases, you’ve coupled them wrong. One thing you mentioned that resonated: “late-night debugging because it works on my machine but doesn’t on yours.” That problem multiplies with every project. My survival trick: keep each project’s scope small enough that a cold start (coming back after weeks away) takes under 15 minutes. If it takes longer, the project is too complex for a solo maintainer. Curious: what kind of projects are you considering branching into? Same domain (career/HR tools) or completely different?
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p/producthunt
p/producthuntHiring? Looking for work? [Startup Roles May 2026]
Stan Kolotinskiy:@busmark_w_nika I am waiting (no) as well for the moment when software developers will be genuinely done :DDD
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p/generalI maintain 20+ open-source projects across 4 ecosystems. Should I have focused on just one?
Stan Kolotinskiy:Great job, respect! I like the multitude of technology stacks and programming languages - that's how I never get bored at my job. Answering your actual second question: I guess that the focus advice (as any other advice) is just very individual, and you happened not to be a person that needs to follow it ;)
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p/generalhow are you actually evaluating candidates in 2026?
Stan Kolotinskiy:I am a developer and I am interviewing developers from time to time. I have seen a couple of cases when people would pass the screening, because they persuaded the HR person to think that the candidate has a lot of knowledge and nice skills - however during the technical interview they'd fail miserably, and my conclusion is that they are fake or maybe they aren't as good as they presented themselves. I'd also need to mention the fact that it's hard to find a developer that has nice soft AND hard skills, but eventually we're able to find a good developer after 10-15 tech interviews. If I was able to rebuild the process, I'd try to find a solution for HR people being completely out of the development field. I believe that one of the reasons why the screening doesn't always work well is that HR people quite often cannot feel that fakeness just because they couldn't know what fake looks like