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DevConnect

A social platform for developers to showcase projects, discover collaborators, and exchange technical insights.

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devconnect.md

Overview

DevConnect is a social platform built for developers, a place to showcase projects, find collaborators, and exchange technical knowledge. Think of it as a portfolio network tailored to how engineers actually work.

What I built

Real-time feed of project drops, releases, and discussions powered by server-sent events.
Skill graph matching that surfaces potential collaborators based on complementary stacks.
Rich profile pages with live GitHub stats, pinned repos, and contribution heatmaps.
Threaded discussions with first-class markdown, code blocks, and syntax highlighting.

Tech decisions

I chose Next.js App Router for streaming + RSC to keep the feed snappy, PostgreSQL + Prisma for relational integrity across users/projects/collaborations, and a thin Redis layer for caching hot feed queries.

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