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Show HN: DevClad – A social-workspace platform for developers

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DevClad[https://devclad.com] is a social-workspace platform for developers to team up on projects and hackathons seamlessly.

It functions by matching you 1-on-1 with a compatible developer every week :)

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Is this like Lunchclub? https://lunchclub.com/

Similar. I took that as a starting point for the developer niche and I plan on turning it into something where developers can work on ideas together.

I built an even more rough version of that here - https://connectdome.com (but then I realized I was dealing with feature-bloat) so now I'm experimenting a little slower.

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> Every week, you are matched with another dev using an ML algorithm for a 1 on 1 call.

I must admit I rolled my eyes when I read "ML algorithm" since it's usually marketing bullshit. Seemingly it's unsupervised knn w/ Scikit Learn, mixing variables like "open to video calls", "location", "openness to ideas" and "timezone".

Fairly neat.

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> Every week, you are matched with another dev using an ML algorithm for a 1 on 1 call. I must admit I rolled my eyes when I read "ML algorithm" since it's usually marketing bullshit. Seemingly it's unsupervised knn w/ Scikit Learn, mixing variables like "open to video calls", "location", "openness to ideas" and "timezone". Fairly neat.

It indeed is. I'll try to find someone better at ML than me over time but I think this approach should serve well at least for the first 1k users or so if I'm not wrong.

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> you are matched with another dev using an ML algorithm for a 1 on 1 call

I was wondering why so complicated and how the model was learned...

> https://github.com/DevClad-Inc/devclad/blob/main/apps/server...

Aha, better indeed to rely on your own human learning ;-)

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Is this like Lunchclub? https://lunchclub.com/

Similar. I took that as a starting point for the developer niche and I plan on turning it into something where developers can work on ideas together. I built an even more rough version of that here - https://connectdome.com (but then I realized I was dealing with feature-bloat) so now I'm experimenting a little slower.

*> connectdome.com

OT, but that's an expertsexchange kind of domain...

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> Every week, you are matched with another dev using an ML algorithm for a 1 on 1 call. I must admit I rolled my eyes when I read "ML algorithm" since it's usually marketing bullshit. Seemingly it's unsupervised knn w/ Scikit Learn, mixing variables like "open to video calls", "location", "openness to ideas" and "timezone". Fairly neat.

It indeed is. I'll try to find someone better at ML than me over time but I think this approach should serve well at least for the first 1k users or so if I'm not wrong.

maybe just say “similarity” rather than “ml algorithm” since that is what you are doing

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It indeed is. I'll try to find someone better at ML than me over time but I think this approach should serve well at least for the first 1k users or so if I'm not wrong.

maybe just say “similarity” rather than “ml algorithm” since that is what you are doing

From the POV of a marketing copy, I don't think that sticks. I could possibly change it on the Github, however. Or, elaborate on what is meant by an ML algorithm in the context of DevClad.
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