Congrats on 1,000 followers. With over 8,000 myself, I’ve noticed followers often come in waves after posting. After looking into my own activity, I suspect over 80% may be automated, from my own data. Not suggesting that’s the case for you. I’m only sharing this out of respect for a fellow developer. There’s a lot online that isn’t quite what it appears to be, and numbers can be misleading. Don’t let them distort your perspective. Question things, even when it seems unnecessary, and pay attention to the genuine conversations and connections you build. Those tell a much better story than follower counts alone. Look at it like this ,if you are getting flooded by bots you're doing something right.
Yeah, you're absolutely right with this one. I've noticed the same bots thing and due to hacktoberfest, a lot of people started following for the sake of DEV challenges. It would be fun to see who sticks around to continue building stuff with AI that'll help the dev community or the developer. Thank you so much!😄 (At 8000 I'd pass out fr lmao)
Do you find connections on DEV that'll help you get exposure or anything of that kind? @gnomeman4201
Absolutely, but probably not in the way you’d expect. I’ve never really approached DEV with exposure as the goal. I just enjoy building things, researching whatever catches my curiosity, and sharing what I learn along the way.
Some of the best connections I’ve made here are people who consistently follow my work, ask difficult questions, and aren’t afraid to point out when I’ve gotten something wrong. I’ve actually had people take time out of their day to examine my research and challenge my assumptions.
To me, that’s worth far more than 8,000 followers. Exposure is nice, but genuine relationships with people who share your curiosity are what make this community valuable.
Ahh fair, I've never really been into the online space so I didn't know any of this lol. But yeah, I'd much rather have a few people who actually check my stuff and tell me where it's wrong than a big follower count. Working on a small LLM research project rn, will post about it once it's done. Would be cool to get your take on it 👀
Yeah man, I’ve never really been into the online space much either. I guess I started posting here as an outlet, just a way to get my thoughts out and make sense of what I’m working on. Looking forward to your post, and I’m always down to take a look whenever you want.
Congrats, 1000 followers in 15 days is amazing! 🎉 And it means more than it sounds, because a lot of people come to DEV to read tutorials and learn new things, so all those followers are people who are actually interested in what you write. Keep building in public, can’t wait to see what you share next!
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Congrats on 1,000 followers. With over 8,000 myself, I’ve noticed followers often come in waves after posting. After looking into my own activity, I suspect over 80% may be automated, from my own data. Not suggesting that’s the case for you. I’m only sharing this out of respect for a fellow developer. There’s a lot online that isn’t quite what it appears to be, and numbers can be misleading. Don’t let them distort your perspective. Question things, even when it seems unnecessary, and pay attention to the genuine conversations and connections you build. Those tell a much better story than follower counts alone. Look at it like this ,if you are getting flooded by bots you're doing something right.
Yeah, you're absolutely right with this one. I've noticed the same bots thing and due to hacktoberfest, a lot of people started following for the sake of DEV challenges. It would be fun to see who sticks around to continue building stuff with AI that'll help the dev community or the developer. Thank you so much!😄 (At 8000 I'd pass out fr lmao)
Do you find connections on DEV that'll help you get exposure or anything of that kind? @gnomeman4201
Absolutely, but probably not in the way you’d expect. I’ve never really approached DEV with exposure as the goal. I just enjoy building things, researching whatever catches my curiosity, and sharing what I learn along the way.
Some of the best connections I’ve made here are people who consistently follow my work, ask difficult questions, and aren’t afraid to point out when I’ve gotten something wrong. I’ve actually had people take time out of their day to examine my research and challenge my assumptions.
To me, that’s worth far more than 8,000 followers. Exposure is nice, but genuine relationships with people who share your curiosity are what make this community valuable.
Ahh fair, I've never really been into the online space so I didn't know any of this lol. But yeah, I'd much rather have a few people who actually check my stuff and tell me where it's wrong than a big follower count. Working on a small LLM research project rn, will post about it once it's done. Would be cool to get your take on it 👀
Yeah man, I’ve never really been into the online space much either. I guess I started posting here as an outlet, just a way to get my thoughts out and make sense of what I’m working on. Looking forward to your post, and I’m always down to take a look whenever you want.
Grat that is a great begining of a big journey!
Thanks! I'd continue to build in public and writing more about my work☺️
Congrats, 1000 followers in 15 days is amazing! 🎉 And it means more than it sounds, because a lot of people come to DEV to read tutorials and learn new things, so all those followers are people who are actually interested in what you write. Keep building in public, can’t wait to see what you share next!
Thank you so much!!🥹🫶🏻
I'll continue to share all of my learnings on DEV and keep the building in public routine follow along.
Great progress, keep going 😸👍
Thank you sm!!
Congratulations @advikdivekar!! Keep going🔥
Thank you!! @vishalg3108 ☺️
Congratulations!💥💥💥
Thank you so much!!🕺💃
great!!
Thank you!☺️