DevBits

Social infrastructure for builders shipping in public.

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Product Identity

DevBits is where developers document real progress, not vanity metrics.

• Streams are projects.
• Bytes are project updates.
• Bits are comments and conversations.

Anyone can react, follow, comment, and join the conversation.

Important

DevBits is designed for technical storytelling: milestones, blockers, experiments, demos, and lessons learned.

Visual Gallery

Home Feed	Discovery

Streams	Messaging

Profile	Product Motion

Experience Cards

Card	What It Delivers
Build Logs	Structured public progress for each project stream, from first prototype to launch day.
Discovery Engine	Explore recent streams, bytes, people, and tags in one place.
Builder Identity	Profiles, follows, saved streams, saved bytes, and creator-centric timelines.
Real Conversations	Direct messages, threaded discussions, and comment-level collaboration.
Creation Flow	Quick post publishing with media support and stream-first organization.

App Functions

▸ Core social model

• Stream-first posting model: project context is always attached to updates.
• Byte interactions: reactions, saves, and threadable discussion.
• Follow graph for people discovery and relationship context.
• Unified feed surfaces both streams and bytes.

▸ Discovery and navigation

• Dedicated Explore experience for users, tags, streams, and bytes.
• Category-aware search and trend-style tag surfacing.
• Route-based architecture with tabs and deep-linked detail pages.
• Welcome tour introduces product primitives and navigation model.

▸ Builder profile system

• Personal stream portfolio with project and post collections.
• Follower/following views and interaction controls.
• Saved content libraries for both streams and bytes.
• Profile metadata and social proof around shipping activity.

▸ Messaging and collaboration

• Direct message threads by builder.
• Username search with suggestion ranking.
• Conversation-level interaction for async collaboration.

▸ Platform and delivery

• Go + Gin REST backend with JWT auth and middleware-protected routes.
• PostgreSQL production database and SQLite-friendly test workflows.
• React Native + Expo mobile client for Android and iOS.
• AWS-hosted backend deployment path.

Language and Platform Snapshot

Backend: Go (Gin API, JWT auth, DB query layer)
Frontend: TypeScript (React Native + Expo Router)
Database: PostgreSQL (production), SQLite (test mode)
Infra: AWS EC2 + AWS RDS

Architecture at a Glance

flowchart LR
A[Mobile App\nReact Native + Expo] --> B[Go API\nGin]
B --> C[(PostgreSQL)]
B --> D[Media Uploads]
A --> E[Streams / Bytes / Bits UX]

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Project Story

DevBits exists to make technical progress visible.

Instead of posting polished outcomes only, builders can share:

• What they are building now
• What broke today
• What they learned while fixing it
• What they are shipping next

Tip

The goal is simple: give developers a social home for real work in progress.

Explore More

• Product and deployment runbook: INSTRUCTIONS.md
• Backend structure and scripts: backend/scripts/README.md
• AWS deployment notes: docs/AWS_TRANSFER_NO_NGINX.md