dvcoolarun

For me, the goal is to see what happens when you persist and carve out your own market share.

Despite the abundance of tools available today, there's always room to deliver unique value to users (e.g., https://docuqueue.com/#mcp )

Playing the long game just takes patience and composure.

Open source alone can’t sustain companies long-term. Eventually everyone needs a bigger, safer home.

A few observations from the current tech + services market:

Service-led companies are doing relatively better right now. Lower costs, smaller teams, and a lot of “good enough” duct-tape solutions are shipping fast.

Fewer developers are needed to deliver the same output. Mature frameworks, cloud, and AI have quietly changed the baseline productivity.

And yet, these companies still struggle to hire and retain people. Not because talent doesn’t exist, but because they want people who are immediately useful, adaptable, and can operate in messy environments.

Retention is hard when work is rushed, ownership is limited, and growth paths are unclear. People leave as soon as they find slightly better clarity or stability.

On the economy: it doesn’t feel like a crash, more like a slow grind. Capital is cautious. Hiring is defensive. Every role needs justification.

In this environment, it’s a good time for “hackers” — not security hackers, but people who can glue systems together, work with constraints, ship fast, and move without perfect information.

Comfort-driven careers are struggling. Leverage-driven careers are compounding.

Curious to see how others are experiencing this shift.

I built this: https://github.com/dvcoolarun/web2pdf — a CLI tool for converting web pages to PDFs, recently open-sourced after adding several new features. (Might be useful!)

# -- Not related to the thread, but if anyone is looking to hire a developer or knows of opportunities, I was recently let go and am actively searching. Any leads or feedback would be greatly appreciated.

# Reference CV : https://docs.google.com/document/d/13yYXN_QM-JmGewx9DWC765pp...

Seeking Work | Remote/Onsite | Full-Time/Freelancer/Contractor

Location: Delhi, India

Remote: Yes/Flexible

Willing to relocate: Global

Summary: I have been working in the web development space for the last 7-8 years. I have experience building large-scale web applications using the React/Django Stack and have shipped multiple projects in the past. I have worked in multiple domains including E-commerce, Travel, Carbon Emission, Payment, and Automation, and have built SPA, Dashboards, Landing Pages, email templates, and Python automation scripts.

Technologies: Python/Django, Docker, Linux, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Redux, HTML, CSS, SQL/Postgres/Sqlite

I am also happy and able to learn new languages, tools, and frameworks as necessary.

Email: dvcoolarun[at]gmail.com

Resume/CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Y4eDhMVCYNNc8YplFVjn-k5JEjF...

GitHub: https://github.com/dvcoolarun

I built this: https://github.com/dvcoolarun/web2pdf which gained popularity and was adopted by hundreds of users.

A Python-based tool to convert web articles into PDF format, The project demonstrates expertise in Python development, web scraping, and document processing.

I am always looking for interesting and challenging projects and enjoy collaborating with smart individuals.

Feel free to contact me :)

I’m not sure if this is the right place to post this, but to everyone commenting here saying they’re hiring and asking people to send their CVs —

please have the basic decency to send a simple acknowledgement or revert after receiving them.

This has happened repeatedly over the past few months after sending dozens of emails from these threads, sometimes 10+ at a time. Not getting even a basic response feels extremely disheartening.

I know it’s a tough time for everyone searching for a job, and we all understand if things are slow —

but a small confirmation like “Received, we’ll check” or “Not hiring anymore” takes 5 seconds and makes a world of difference.

Let’s be kinder to each other. It’s been a very hard year

I believe it’s a bubble. Every app interface is becoming similar to ChatGPT, claiming they’ll “help you automate,” while drifting away from the app’s original purpose.

Most of this feels like people trying to get rich off VC money — and VCs trying to get rich off someone else’s money.

There was an article on HN a few days back about how companies like this are influencing the overall freedom of the web (I missed the source) and their own way of doing things. Other examples of influence I see similarly are of Vercel, like with enterprise. Even a few days back, we saw AWS.

Sometimes not doing the ‘thing’ (in the sense of not jumping into a goal or project) is actually a deliberate, healthy choice — resting, recharging, being in a better mental/physical state. That’s not laziness or procrastination; it’s recovery or self-care.

Seeking Work | Remote/Onsite | Full-Time/Freelancer/Contractor Location: Delhi, India Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: Yes

Technologies: Python/Django, Docker, Linux, React, TypeScript, JavaScript, Redux, HTML, CSS, SQL/Postgres/Sqlite

I am also happy and able to learn new languages, tools, and frameworks as necessary.

Resume/CV: https://arun.tiiny.site/

Email: dvcoolarun[at]gmail.com

GitHub: https://github.com/dvcoolarun

Summary: I have been working in the web development space for the last 7-8 years. I have experience building large-scale web applications using the React/Django Stack and have shipped multiple projects in the past. I have worked in multiple domains including E-commerce, Travel, Carbon Emission, Payment, and Automation, and have built SPA, Dashboards, Landing Pages, email templates, and Python automation scripts.

I am always looking for interesting and challenging projects and enjoy collaborating with smart individuals.

Feel free to contact me :)

I built this: https://github.com/dvcoolarun/web2pdf — a CLI tool for converting web pages to PDFs, recently open-sourced after adding several new features. (Might be useful!)

Not related to the thread, but if anyone is looking to hire a developer or knows of opportunities, I was recently let go and am actively searching. Any leads or feedback would be greatly appreciated.

Sample PDF: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n7M1TKOptSsYiibrbvV_Yojx53T...

Two days ago, with the launch of OpenAI’s AgentKit, people were claiming that similar tools and startups would become obsolete.

I think the pie is big enough for everyone to benefit.

I haven’t tried these agent-and-connector-based approaches yet — where should someone start to get a good grasp of this kind of automation?

Google Docs and Sheets are still a great way to store data, and this ongoing AI boom will make many people rich while also bringing societal benefits.

Finding such opportunities and making them sustainably profitable is truly great.

If this happens, that's great, but humans still need to understand any amount of code.

A few years ago in India, I saw a presentation where people were attempting to write programming in their mother tongue.

One such effort I found on GitHub is https://github.com/betacraft/rubyvernac-marathi (for Marathi, an Indian dialect).