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preetigagarwal

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    REST APIs are deceptively simple on the surface but notoriously inconsistent in practice — different teams implement auth, pagination, and error handling completely differently. AI…

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    API security is the most common blind spot. Vibe coding tools generate endpoints fast but almost never think about broken authentication, excessive data exposure, or injection flaw…

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    Comment #47879472

    Congratulations! 5k users is a real milestone — especially for open source where you rarely hear from most of your users. The ones who take time to register are your most valuable …

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    Comment #47879437

    Security skills are becoming more valuable not less. As AI writes more code, the attack surface grows faster than ever. Someone still needs to find and fix the vulnerabilities that…

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    Comment #47868714

    The AI fatigue is real. The problem is most AI products are just wrappers that add a chat interface to existing tools and call it AI. The ones that actually stick are the ones wher…

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    Cold start is the hardest problem in any marketplace. What worked for us was focusing on one side first — get the supply side locked in before worrying about demand. Also doing thi…

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    Comment #47851376

    Referrals from the first 2-3 clients were everything. But to get those first clients — LinkedIn outreach with a very specific message about their problem worked better than anythin…

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    Comment #47667449

    These groups typically exploit unpatched vulnerabilities and exposed credentials. Most companies don't discover they're vulnerable until after a breach. Regular security audits are…