Month: December 2025

How are you, hacker? 🪐Want to know what’s trending right now?: The Techbeat by HackerNoon has got you covered with fresh content from our trending stories of the day! Set email preference here. ## Stop Building Your Product for Yourself: Why Most Early-Stage Startups Fail at Marketing By @manukovska [ 10 Min read ] I’ve … Read more

Learning from BitChat’s failure, founders Patrick Dajos (CTO) and Josh Norris (CEO) launched PinPop to revolutionize private, decentralized, offline messaging. PinPop uses self-healing mesh networks and advanced noise cancellation to solve connectivity issues for motorcyclists, a niche that demands reliable comms. The hybrid system seamlessly switches between online and offline (like during blackouts or in … Read more

TL;DR: Django ORM and internal utilities have rich functionality that allows you to n automate some complex data manipulations, automate processes that rely on multiple models in a way that will not require updates every time the data structure changes collect data from the database quickly without diving into the project very deeply n In … Read more

APIs are supposed to make life easier, not turn your app development into a hunt for related data. But if you’ve ever tried building a screen that shows a user, their posts, and the comments on those posts using REST, you know how fast things can get messy. GraphQL was designed to solve exactly this … Read more

LLMs can write Python scripts, they cannot be trusted to design physical systems where tolerance, voltage, and compatibility matter. A chatbot can tell you how a drone works. It cannot tell you if this specific T-Motor F60 will overheat when paired with this specific 6S battery on a hot day in Texas. I built OpenForge to prove that we can bridge this gap. … Read more

For years, the database has been the most important system in the stack — and ironically the one most disconnected from LLMs. RAG systems are great at retrieving documents. Agents are great at calling tools. But the moment an LLM needs to answer: “How many users signed up in the last 14 days?” “What’s the … Read more

The meme-coin industry has already earned a market value of over $47 billion, but token developers do not often reap substantial economic benefits out of the markets they trigger. While platforms have perfected their mechanisms of extraction, growing hundreds of millions of transactions, creators are left with a binary option: dump early or watch their … Read more

There’s a failure mode almost no founder logs, tracks, or even notices. At least not until it’s already too late. Engineers obsess over tech debt. Missing tests. Messy logic. Fragile architecture that slows every future release. But in AI and crypto startups, the fastest-growing liability isn’t tech debt. It’s Narrative Debt. And unlike bad code, … Read more