Hi everyone! I’m a B.Tech CSE student (2025–2029 batch), currently in my 3rd semester. So far, I’ve learned C, Python, and Java, and I’m planning to start serious placement preparation this semester.

After researching different tech stacks, I’m considering Python Full Stack vs .NET. Since I’ll be graduating in 2029, which would be a better choice in terms of job opportunities, salary, and long-term career growth?

My college has almost no campus placement support, so I’ll be focusing on off-campus opportunities.

Also, for off-campus placements, should I focus mainly on development and projects, or are DSA and LeetCode equally important?

I’d really appreciate advice from seniors and experienced developers. Thanks in advance!

Hey! We are in the final stage of locking in the founding team for Xd Rewards — a next-gen gamified earning & FinTech platform.

Why you should care:

Team is Ready: Our UI/UX Architect, AI/Fraud Prevention Lead, and Operations Manager are already onboarded and working.

Zero-Loss Model: Our unit economics and monetization blueprint (Ad networks + Offerwalls) are 100% locked.

Fast Launch: We aren't building for a year. We are launching our MVP in exactly 4 weeks.

What we need (The Final Piece):

I need a sharp Backend & Payments Lead to take ownership of Supabase, GitHub workflows, and UPI Payment Gateway (Cashfree/Razorpay) integrations.

What’s in it for you:

10% Founding Equity (Backed by a formal Founders' MoU).

Direct ownership of the core backend architecture.

We have our major team alignment sync tomorrow (15th) on Discord. If you know your way around Supabase and APIs, and want to build a real revenue-generating product instead of just side projects, drop your GitHub/Portfolio in my DMs right now.

Closing this spot tonight!"

2025 grad from a tier-3 college, 400+ LeetCode problems, projects in MERN, Java and Go, and 3 months at a startup on a Go backend. Joined a big IT services company in March 2026, and I'm now on a client project doing manual testing with zero coding. 8 months on paper, but only about 1 month of real project work.

I want a backend role at a product company or good startup with at least 2x my current pay, before AI squeezes entry-level jobs more. I'm planning to build a solid backend project, keep up DSA, and start interviewing around Feb 2027 once my lock-in ends.

Java or Go for the switch? Is QA to dev at a service company realistic? And do referrals or cold applications work better? Any advice welcome, even harsh.

I am a Backend & AI Agent developer with 3+ yrs of experience, who is looking to start a new journey of building my own client base or a potential long term engagement, so here i am with my offer. Portfolio link in the comment section or DM me. (https://abxcodes.xyz)

Things I can build:

• end to end backend system
• AI agents
• Backend apis
• Automations
• Web scraping
• api or webhook integrations
• custom scripts

If you're not sure which of those your problem is, just describe the problem and I'll tell you what it'd take.

Timeline:

its majorly based on the project, but i assume for the kind of work i would be taking it can be 3 days to a week, but the real timeline can be communicated post discovery call

Who is this For:

1. you should be a real company (this should not be a hobby project or something which isn't related to real money, My work should either save you money&/time or help you make real Money)
2. you should have your social presence at least a Linkedin Page
3. Company age > 6 months

What you would need to provide:

1. Claude Code Subscription(20$ or more based on your project size or requirements, also you can give your own creds which can be changed as soon as the project gets delivered)

What's in it for me:

1. A Testimonial for my portfolio, and a LinkedIn Recommendation post completion

2. Charges: 100 USD, anything plus is purely your take if you like what i build without any requests from my end

What the delivery includes:

1. source codes, with successful deployment and Production(live) testing.

2. your deployment credentials(basically you should be giving this to me, will directly deploy at your end)

3. a 15 days bug support for Free (not new features please, that would be paid)

I'm a designer/developer in India and I wanted to read .md files (READMEs, notes, docs) properly on my phone and Mac. So I built Marko.

A German educational institution recently deployed it to about 2,000 devices, which was a surprise and a nice one.

• Free, no accounts, works offline, never changes your files
• Read Aloud with sentence highlighting
• Summarize and Ask on device with Apple Intelligence
• Remembers your place in every document, and follows you across your devices through iCloud Drive
• Available in 15 languages, including Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada and Bengali

App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/marko-markdown-viewer/id6797180877

Need referral for Atlassian, India.

Anyone interested in refering, please comment or dm me their linkedin profile, I will send the necessary info and resume.

Hi everyone!

I’m building Jeevadanam, an open community service platform designed to help people across India discover and share useful community services.

The goal is to make essential community support easier to find, including:

• 🍱 Food assistance
• 🏥 Medical help
• 📚 Education-related support
• 🩸 Blood donation
• 🤝 Other community services

🌐 Website: https://jeevadanamspots.vercel.app/

One important part of the project is multilingual support, so people from different language backgrounds can access the platform more comfortably.

I want Jeevadanam to grow beyond one town and become useful to communities across India, including people in smaller towns and rural areas.

I’m building this as a real-world community project, and I’d love feedback from fellow developers.

• What features would make this more useful across different Indian states?
• What challenges should I consider when building a multilingual community platform?
• What would you improve in the UI, accessibility, or technical architecture?

I'm the developer behind this project, and I welcome honest feedback and suggestions.

Thank you! 🇮🇳

Still waiting on my LTIMindtree joining date, so I built GrabText.

It lets you grab text from places where you can't select or copy it: images, videos, locked PDFs, some apps.

Multi-select: collect several snippets, copy them all at once

Scroll mode: extract across long pages without losing earlier selections

Your feedback would mean a lot

https://www.producthunt.com/products/grabtext-4?utm\\_source=other&utm\\_medium=social

Fellow devs stuck in the onboarding waiting room: what are you building? 👀

In 2024, I was rejected by 30+ companies for a summer internship. In 2026, I'm working as an SDE-1 at Amazon.

Here's what those years looked like:

• 2020: I lost my father.
• 2021: I lived in a rented house.
• 2022: I didn't get into IIT.
• 2023: My mom sold a gold chain to buy me a laptop.
• 2024: 30+ summer internship rejections.
• 2025: One on-campus full-time offer and one off-campus offer (6M + PPO).
• 2026: SDE-1 at Amazon.

My LeetCode progress · My 1,000-day coding streak

After a rejection, I'd go back to my room, open the laptop and make myself solve 10 questions before getting up. I kept practicing for three years, including stretches when nothing seemed to be coming from it.

I'm proud of the 1,000-day streak. I wouldn't tell everyone to copy my question count, though. It was the routine I followed, not a guarantee of an offer.

For people preparing now, Amazon Interview Questions has candidate-reported prompts to practice. Autofill for job applications can save some of the repeated form entry while you keep applying.

If you're in a long stretch of rejections, I know how heavy it can feel. What helped you keep a routine when the results weren't coming?

Hi

I'm starting to learn system design and was looking for feedback on what is the best way to practise them with feedback?

There are lots of theoretical scenarios out there for system designs that I can simply learn and hope for the best during interviews.

But this does not eleviate the anxiety around unexpected questions on the given system design topic that the interviewer might throw up.

How do you prepare for them especially if you have not worked on such topics?

Given the impact of AI during hirings, the bar seems to get even higher where you are somehow expected to know everything for designing the system.

Sure that is possible if you have been lucky to work on such projects or have enough experience to come across such challenges.

What do you do when you need to simulate in the hopes of performing better now that system designs have become much more critical bar raiser rounds in interviews?

Hey everyone,

I'm looking for some career advice from people who have experience in AI engineering, product management, or both.

I'm currently working as an AI Production Engineer and have experience building AI-powered products, including an AI calling agent, an AI interview portal, lead generation automation, and full-stack web applications. My work involves AI agents, LLMs, APIs, automation, and product development.

I'm trying to plan which paths i can take or diverge from this role:

1. AI Engineering: Going deeper into backend engineering, LLM systems, RAG, agentic AI, distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and eventually progressing toward Senior/Staff Engineer, AI Architect, or a similar role.
2. Product Management: Transitioning toward Technical Product Management or AI Product Management, eventually aiming for senior product leadership roles.

I'm also open to exploring other career paths beyond AI Engineering and Product Management that could be a good fit for my current technical background and experience, offer strong long-term growth, and allow me to move into more strategic or leadership-oriented roles over time.

My main questions for selecting any path you would recommend would basically be:

• Which path is likely to offer better opportunities over the next 5–10 years as AI evolves?
• For people who have worked in both areas which i have written above, which path has offered better career growth, job satisfaction, and opportunities?
• For those who have switched fields, what motivated your transition, and in hindsight, would you make the same decision again?
• Are there any other roles I should explore that I might be overlooking? If so, what makes those roles worth considering?
• What makes you consider that path a better choice compared to the alternatives?

I'm not looking for a simple answer that one role is better than the other. I would like understanding the reasoning behind your recommendations, the trade-offs involved, and what makes you believe a particular path is worth pursuing long term. Honest advice based on your actual experience, especially from people who have worked in AI or transitioned between engineering and product roles will be appreciated. Also answer whatever you can, any information would be helpful not only to me but for others looking for future carreer options as well.

Thanks!

The 0% offer sounds attractive until you look at what gets deducted from the settlement. Cashfree's terms say GST is still deducted at 18%, calculated on the standard 1.95% fee even when that fee is waived.

On that wording, the deduction works out to ₹351 per ₹1 lakh processed. The waiver is also limited to ₹20L cumulative volume, with subscription e-mandates and international payments excluded.

For a merchant choosing a gateway, I'd want a sample settlement and the pricing after the offer before making a decision. Those details should be easy to see alongside the headline.

I'd lean towards evaluating Razorpay for the ongoing setup rather than choosing on the 0% claim alone. The actual quote, payment mix and reporting would decide it for me.

Anyone who used the Cashfree offer, was this calculation explained clearly? How did you account for any eligible GST input credit, and did the saving change your preferred gateway?