Why do you wanna write it from scratch? Just search for some open source projects and modify them to your needs. Your time to build would be significantly reduced

Want to build it from scratch to improve my development skills

Frontend Engineer

Should be an SDE 2 level work in that case.  
  
 Scope out MVP i.e. 2 people should be able to sign up find each other and then message one another.  
  
 Deploy only the MVP first, and then keep adding other features. Nothing like building it incrementally

Growth Manager

If you write your own chat server with Whatsapp like functionalities (1:1 messages, group chat, communities, file upload, typing indicator,read receipts, reply, block user, remove from group, mark ...

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If you write your own chat server with Whatsapp like functionalities (1:1 messages, group chat, communities, file upload, typing indicator,read receipts, reply, block user, remove from group, mark a message as important etc.) from scratch for both backend and frontend. Would you consider it as a proper SDE II level skill or above? I’m not expecting it to handle Whatsapp scale but it should be able to handle a few lakh users

How complex is it to write your own chat server?

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SDE1, SDE2, staff engineer

What exactly do you do/code and how does work change as you progress up the flagpole?

Software folks of GV, help a non software simpleton understand what exactly you do?

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Young SWE start with double digit salaries, while someone in Non tech will need 5-10 years to reach that level
Even the business roles, the direct revenue generating roles don't pay good traditionally

Funny how techies think everyone gets paid similar
A lot of it changed with startups trying to acquire talent, but not sustainable
Because the market simply doesn’t pay

How do non tech compete with this skewed demand-supply chain?

Tech and Non tech Pay Partiality is something no one talks about

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Currently learning Springboot/Java because I want to shift to it from my current techstack. Done with the basics but I prefer to learn while doing projects. Can anyone please suggest what projects I can do that will help me to improve but also something I can put on my resume? Thanks!!

Springboot Java Projects Suggestions

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Dear all, ( I am non tech guy) question out of curiosity. 

Does DM functions based on Chat API or DM ka kuch alag structure hota hai ? 

For ex >> Twitter or Grapevine, DM chalane k liye are they using Chat API or what ?

DM and Chat API Question

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Any marketer who works in retention marketing and/or has tried whatsapp apart from usual email + sms? Just need some advice. A plus if you've worked with both Indian and international brands.

Anyone here who does whatsapp marketing?

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Thinking of building a collaboration platform as a side project. Kinda like slack. If you were me, how would you folks start? What stack would you prefer?

How would you build slack from scratch?

Enlighten me with some productive use cases that will convince me to use the discord app.

PS: I haven’t used discord since the time I have installed it on my mobile.

What are some use cases for which you use discord?

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What is your Salary and YOE ? Are you satisfied with the progress you have achieved so far ?

Satisfied with TC ?

I'll go first.

I love to ask, design: 
Google docs, 
Google maps, 
Spotify
Play store/App store
True caller
Zerodha/Share market terminal

What are some of your favourite questions?

Your favorite system design question?

Founder

Conva (its a Slack alternative ) that I have been building where you own the data and host it on our own machine.

For $49 (intro), software for life. No monthly fees, total data ownership..

Know more at : OneMana.dev

Building Slack alternative

Short
Pls help me prepare for any sort of questions that can be asked based on my projects only


Long
I was rejected in an on Campus interview because I didn't have any projects back then and now since I have those
I really wanna dig deep on what extent the interview can go based on my projects only

I don't have money right now
Par jab bhi aap kahenge aapka kha kaam jarur karunga

Pls help

Help Needed 2025' Student

We are working on a small app where Indians prefer to login via mobile number and OTP.
Firebase/Supabase/Appwrite only support a few OTP providers like twilio and all who seems to be expensive for the India Market.
But, there are few local players which are really cheap like 0.2Rs/SMS .
What will be your strategy on integrating these cheap providers into Supabase/firebase.

Cheap OTP providers

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Like is Telegram used by anyone to stay in touch with friends/family? Or is it a simpler Discord?

Genuine question: Does anybody use Telegram for anything apart from stock tip groups/research groups/super large groups etc.?

Corporate Strategist

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Hi devs,

I’ve recently joined Accenture as an ASE (this is my 1st job) with a package of 4.6LPA.

While I was searching for rents , I felt very demotivated as getting rents in Bangalore is so costly as well as the commute.

It made me feel like I came here for a very minimal salary job and it’s making me worried about myself , as if will I be able to survive here well enough without having any trouble financially. 

Apparently this is also making me want to work hard to grow my salary as quickly as possible and land a perfect job(if that exists). Possibly a permanent WFH job while I go back to my hometown.

I want to know from all the seniors in our dev community as in how should I excel up in my career as quickly as possible. How I should manage my time and expenses and how should I get landed onto a dream job. 

Current tech stack - MERN ( highly proficient ) , Web sockets , AWS

Advice on how to grow as a Software Engineer.

What was your first ever CTC and what's your current CTC with YoE?

I'll start - 1.6 to 9.8 in 4 years.

This post is intended to give hope to freshers and motivation to experienced folks.

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I am working on a gaming application. It will contain 4-5 small 1v1 and multiplayer games. The users can add money and play and earn the winnings. 1)What would be the best tech stack like complete frontend,backend, database,clouds and services like Kafka,aws etc that can be used for the purpose. 
2) What all licences, registration needed etc.
3) is it better to build the app in house or give it to a company for development??

Which technologies to use..

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