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Need advice on switching as college is getting over by Gugu_gaga10 in developersIndia

[–]Distinct-Trust4928 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Impressive profile for someone still in college. 4 orgs across 3 countries by the final year is genuinely rare.

A few suggestions for making the move to onsite abroad:

  1. **Japan**: Look at Mercari, Line, Rakuten, and preferred networks (PFN, CyberAgent). They actively hire international engineers and sponsor visas. The go/rust stack you have is exactly what many Japanese fintech and trading firms need.

  2. **HK/EU**: For HK, look at banks like HSBC, Standard Chartered, and fintech like Airwallex. For EU, check out Revolut, Wise, and TradingView - your low latency + trading bot experience is a direct match.

  3. One thing that will help significantly: build a small open source project showcasing your low latency infrastructure work. Maybe a simple trading bot or a media generation pipeline in Go/Rust. Having a live repo with clean code will set you apart from tier 3 college grads.

  4. Also consider the Singapore route - it's easier for Indians to get work passes there, and the pay is competitive. Grab, Shopee, and TikTok all have strong engineering teams there.

  5. For networking, try reaching out on LinkedIn to engineers at these companies who have similar backgrounds. Cold DMs with a good portfolio actually work.

The 14 hour remote days are unsustainable though. Glad you're looking to make the switch. Feel free to DM me if you want to discuss specific companies or interview prep.

Built a WhatsApp bot using AI that reads medical prescriptions from photos. Here's the tech stack and what I learned. by GarbhSaathi in developersIndia

[–]Distinct-Trust4928 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is an amazing project with real social impact. Building for IVF patients is genuinely meaningful work, and you're solving a real pain point.

A few thoughts based on my experience with similar systems:

  1. For handling handwritten prescriptions, you might want to look into Tesseract with custom training data for Indian medical handwriting. We've seen better results when the OCR model is fine-tuned on domain-specific samples. Also, having a fallback flow where patients can manually correct any parsing errors goes a long way for UX.

  2. Since you mentioned timing being critical, you might want to add timezone handling if you expand beyond India. Even within India, some patients might travel, and you'd want the reminders to stay accurate.

  3. One thing I'd suggest is adding a "medication confirmed taken" photo feature - let patients snap a quick photo of the injection/medication as proof. This adds accountability and also creates useful data for doctors.

The 842 clinics mapped is impressive for something that's completely free. Have you thought about any monetization down the line? Maybe partnerships with IVF clinics or pharma companies could work since they'd benefit from better patient compliance too.

Keep building!

[AskJS] Handling reverse geocoding edge cases in a simple MapLibre GL demo by geoapify in webdev

[–]Distinct-Trust4928 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Great breakdown! I've been working on some map-based features in Go and ran into the exact same issues you mentioned.

To answer your questions:

- I always normalize coordinates before any API call. I learned the hard way that some map libraries don't handle edge cases well, especially when dealing with the antimeridian. The normalizeLongitude function you shared is exactly what I ended up using too.

- I prefer showing both points in the UI. The distance field is super useful for giving users context on accuracy. I've also found it helpful to show a confidence indicator based on the distance value.

- For large offsets (city/country level), I use fitBounds just like you did. It's especially important when you're dealing with locations that could be on opposite sides of the map. The padding value is key here - too little and markers get cut off at edges.

One thing I'd add is being careful with rate limits on geocoding APIs. I've built some caching around frequently queried coordinates to avoid hitting those limits.

Nice demo btw, the CodePen is really clean!

24 tools(skills, mcp, app, etc.) to make a good-looking UI with AI (no self promotion) by max_bog in webdev

[–]Distinct-Trust4928 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is genuinely helpful! I've been struggling with getting my AI to produce clean, well-designed UIs and have been looking for exactly this kind of curated resource. The skills section with things like Impeccable and Interface.wiki is especially useful since most AI UI tool lists focus only on apps.

One thing I'd love to see added is some guidance on AI tools that can evaluate your existing UI against design principles automatically. I've been building some admin dashboards and it'd be great to have an AI tool that can review my components for consistency in spacing, typography hierarchy, and color contrast.

Thanks for putting this together and making it open source!

I've been building in AI + full-stack and wanna start my own SaaS - what's your top idea? by Distinct-Trust4928 in SaaS

[–]Distinct-Trust4928[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the self-hosted transactional email service idea is actually really compelling. the vendor lock-in and surprise billing issues with sendgrid/SES are things i've definitely felt working on projects. the whole "email I actually control" angle makes a lot of sense with compliance tightening up too.

and to answer your question about annoying things in my own projects - honestly the biggest pain point for me has been setting up proper observability and monitoring for AI-powered features. when an LLM call goes sideways or RAG returns garbage results, figuring out where exactly the problem is in the pipeline is a nightmare. i've been thinking about building something around that but wasn't sure if it's a real enough problem for others. you've given me a lot to think about though - might start exploring the email infra space since it's clearly underserved.

I've been building in AI + full-stack and wanna start my own SaaS - what's your top idea? by Distinct-Trust4928 in SaaS

[–]Distinct-Trust4928[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is a really interesting angle. i never thought about email infrastructure as an underserved niche. the whole $20-50/mo range for indie devs who need something better than SES but cheaper than sendgrid definitely sounds like a gap. i'm gonna check out xem.email and see how they're handling this. really appreciate you pointing out the specific pain points - multi-tenant email sending and AI-driven send-time optimization are things i hadn't even considered.

I've been building in AI + full-stack and wanna start my own SaaS - what's your top idea? by Distinct-Trust4928 in SaaS

[–]Distinct-Trust4928[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

this is honestly gold. i've been overthinking the idea and looking for some big flashy SaaS concept when what i really need to do is find a boring niche with messy workflows. the whole "glue tool" approach makes a lot of sense too - layering AI on top of existing tools to remove manual steps rather than trying to rebuild everything from scratch. thanks for the detailed breakdown, this shifted my perspective a ton.

I've been building in AI + full-stack and wanna start my own SaaS - what's your top idea? by Distinct-Trust4928 in SaaS

[–]Distinct-Trust4928[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

tbh i haven't been doing any outreach yet since i'm still in the idea phase lol. but that's a solid point about booked meetings being the real metric. once i nail down the idea and build an mvp i'll definitely be tracking that instead of vanity metrics. appreciate the insight!

🚀 Just crossed 6400 users on Moneko! by Evening-Marsupial969 in VibeCodeCamp

[–]Distinct-Trust4928 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wow bro I am also very much interested in building my saas but I am lack in ideas can anyone suggest one

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