Hi there, I just started The Odin Project and am 19% through the foundations course. I lately realized how chatGPT can assist making websites and a lot of people have done so already.

I wanted to know if I complete TOP and start job hunting for entry level roles, what will the competition be like? Are entry level developers even required in 2026? I just want to know if it is a good decision to do TOP or should I shift to something that is less likely to be taken over by AI.

Thanks in advance, I'm feeling a bit confused right now.

Hey everyone,

I’m a solo developer working on a expense tracker web app. My stack is Django REST Framework (DRF) on the backend and Vanilla JS / HTML / CSS on the frontend.

I’ve been grinding on this for 5 months. Right now, my progress is completely lopsided:

Backend: ~96% complete (heavy logic, multi-currency support, automated tracking)

Frontend: ~30% complete

Since I learn entirely through project-based coding, I didn’t know how to properly manage a project of this scale when I started. My workflow evolved entirely out of necessity:

I started writing frontend code with zero planning, just chasing a "good look."

Hit a wall with layouts, discovered Figma, and started wireframing components properly.

Struggled to mock data, so I dove headfirst into DRF to build a real backend.

My workflow got messy, so I adopted Notion to handle my TODO lists.

The Bottleneck: Now that my backend is incredibly complex for me. I am struggling to shift my brain from pure code to UX. It’s incredibly hard to optimize endpoints, find weak spots and edge cases when I'm just staring at a bunch of endpoints.

My Questions for the Seniors:

1. How do you structure your full-stack workflow from scratch? What do you build first?
2. How do you stop yourself from over-engineering the backend?

the project: https://github.com/NickSilverTech/Balancr

Currently im thinking about pausing the project. i think it is slowing me down, and i want to start thinking about jumping into the market

NOTE* i have posted similar post here on my other account before, but it got banned, so im reposting it.

So far on my full stack journey, I have been trying to stay on the right path and make sure I'm learning the correct topics in order. I came across a topic on YouTube about how people who have learned JS decided to jump straight to Node.js to learn backend but I've also been told to learn React before going to Node.js. I've been also deciding on if I want to eventually go deeper into backend development which kind've makes me want to jump straight to learning node.js but I honestly don't know what to do.

When you're fullstack and solo, every side project is really two projects. a backend repo, a frontend repo, an API between them, auth crossing that boundary, two deploys that have to move together. and you're the whole team for both. i kept seeing posts here about how "fullstack" keeps expanding into doing everyone's job, and honestly for indie projects i felt that the most in the glue work, not the actual features.

so back in August 2022 I started a project called fymo, to make one-repo Python+Svelte projects a normal thing to build. got stuck early, compiling Svelte from Python and making the two sides talk to each other was beyond me then, so it sat there for a while, like my other side projects did. between years, i came back and forth, but this time it stuck, and I finished it.

the shape of it: Python renders real Svelte 5 components, controllers return dicts that land in components as props, and Python functions become typed functions you import in Svelte, so no serializer, no endpoint, no fetch code. fymo new gives a running app with sign in, fymo generate resource posts gives a routed page, CRUD endpoints and passing tests. one repo, one deploy.

it's v0.20, one maintainer, needs Node installed, no ORM. things still break between versions, loudly though.

Repo: https://github.com/Bishwas-py/fymo -> pip install fymo

curious how other solo devs handle this though. do you just eat the two-repo cost, use a monorepo with turborepo or something, or collapse the stack some other way? genuinely asking, because the glue work is where my projects used to die.

Building a CLI based notes app with TypeScript and INK that you can access from anywhere on your system just by writing "notescli" in your terminal

Some features :

\- saves notes in .md files

\- connects to github and syncs your notes

\- AI formatting, so u just write in it, and it gets formated on its own. (Still doubtful but will try to implement)

Possibly gonna ship an npm package out of it.

If you have any features that you think might be useful in this type of app or some add-ons, I would appreciate them. And please review the idea. It will kinda be my flagship project on my resume.