Jerome

🚨 I DONT KNOW TO WRITE CODE FROM SCRATCH But over the last Few Years, I’ve built a high-frequency Solana trading engine, a decentralized Web3 storage vault, and a production-grade crypto payment gateway. Here is the unfiltered reality of Vibecoding your way out of the rat race👇 My journey didn’t start with a shiny CS degree and a perfect GitHub graph. It started in the graveyard of failed side hustles: • A dead FreeFire YouTube channel. • Cold-pitching dropshipped Meesho products on OLX for $10 profits. • Grinding crypto airdrops ($LVLY & $WAL saved me) only to burn the cash trying to manually trade memecoins. I realized trying to out-trade the market was a losing game. I needed an edge. I needed automated infrastructure. But I had zero syntax skills. And back in mid-2025, there were no autonomous "one-click" coding agents. So I used ChatGPT and Gemini. Not to generate generic cursor or Lovable slops, but for brutal, line-by-line system architecture. I spent months doing day-and-night trial-and-error sessions manually copy-pasting method-by-method replacements, fighting hallucinated dependencies, and relentlessly debugging until I forced a CT tracker, a Telegram subscription manager and a legacy trading bot into production. It wasn't a fairy tale. My first trading bot was way too slow because I didn't understand the power of Helius RPCs. My subscription bot didn’t get enough users to cover the marketing costs. I missed my shot at a Walrus Protocol grant. I failed my corporate placement exam because of an accident. Right now? I'm literally borrowing money from friends just to keep my Linux VPS servers online to run background nodes like Aethir and CARV. But here is what that absolute chaos taught me: Writing raw syntax is a dying skill in this era. Orchestrating systems using AI while understanding the fundamentals is the future. I learned how to manage Docker namespaces, secure webhooks behind Nginx reverse proxies and deploy agile, zero-trust architectures. I learned how to bridge the gap between an abstract idea and a live, hardened prototype. I’m done trying to play the standard corporate game, and I am sick of watching founders get scammed paying for fragile, vibecoded websites and backends spat out by one click AI agents. I use AI too. but not as a crutch but as an engine to rapidly prototype secure, hardened architectures using actual engineering methodologies. Now I’m turning this into a service. If you are a founder with an idea but need someone to rapidly prototype the backend, manage your VPS infrastructure, or hold the trenches handling tech tickets as a Web3 Discord Mod... my DMs are open. ~Jer123-Dev Portfolio in bio

@Triloch79742929 Crime Pump 😶‍🌫️

A Pakistani guy lost over $40,000 in crypto.😳 If his trade drops just 10% more, he will lose his full $50K and get liquidated. $SIREN crashed from $1.2 to $0.5 in just 4 hours, almost a 60% dump.📉 With $50K, you can live the whole life in Pakistan. Crypto trading is brutal. $SIREN

@Shra_va_ni You : So the overall site + hosting + maintenance would cost u an avg of 50000 + monthly charges for hostings Client : 50000??!!....... this one kid i saw reels is doing this for 200rs you:

i'm a frontend dev, roast me in 3 words

@BuildWithOm check and tell if mine tells the same ?

Your GitHub should answer one question: "Can this person build things?"

@dev_olayinka Networking and contacts

If you could master only one tech skill for the next 10 years, what would it be? What's one unpopular opinion

@neerajjj6785 English probably🙃

Suggest only 1 language for backend development🤔

@anupamrjp Reddit..... Iykyk

You have $0 to spend on marketing. No ad budget. No affiliate program. No paid tools. You need your first 50 users. What are you doing first? 👇

@i_mika_el Probably a descion worthfull

@Jer123_Dev oh yeah...I had to delete that app

the app you open first thing in the morning says more about you than your resume

@kushmergedeck Well did u mean the vice versa or am I reading it right ??

@Jer123_Dev I think growth would be linear in that case not compounded

You're starting from zero. No audience. No money. No network. What's the first thing you do?

@waleswoosh upcoming alt szn maybe??

What's keeping you in crypto right now? Be honest

@kushmergedeck i would say distribution alone is enough

@Jer123_Dev Product market fit > distribution > system design

K im done waiting !! Dropping My first cold reachout Wish me Luck

@TTrimoreau Someone literally said he knows How many r's are in the strawberry

prove me you're not an ai

@pmitu probably a 100M MRR??

What's better than $1M MRR?

@TTrimoreau nano dont tell me ik im cooked

Which command your using the most in your terminal?

@pgbpgbpgbpgbpgb k let me ask the help frm u then...... where do i find my clients

Asking for help is one of the best networking moves out there 🤝 Most people wait to connect until they have something to offer. Flip it - reach out, ask a genuine question, let someone share their knowledge. People remember who made them feel useful. #connect

@Dhruvam987 Java is obvious no reasons required thoo.... and probably Docker..... Lets the vibecoders learn some fundamentals

If you can delete TWO technologies forever. • Python • JavaScript • Java • React • Docker • Git • Linux • Kubernetes Which two are you removing?

Right now anyone can prompt an AI to build an MVP in a weekend. But 90% of those dreams completely collapse by Tuesday Why?

@omarvvvr Looks like admins cron job bot dropped his 2022 drafts

Devs, What’s your plan B if Artificial Intelligence writes better code than you in next 5 months?