I am based in Berlin, Germany and it is superfun to travel in Europe. I always have a guilty pressure of not connecting with other hackers or builders if I visit a specific place. I also realise planning trip around different events from platforms like Luma and Devpost is a very tedious process, I wish I have a worldwide map to see where people are building. Since I can't find one, I created Hackamaps.I started out knowing very little on web development. It is mostly just HTML, CSS, JS. For the first interation I just use AI tool like Lovable and Windsurf. I manage to make a working prototy in a week and I my network in linkedin finds in useful. However, there is a lot of bugs and I cant fixed them. My friend Cyrus told me to code one from scratch and I took the challenge and fight my way through. Don't get me wrong Lovable is great for UI but lacks in the minor details. After a while I also realise there is a vendor lock feeling where lovable tries to trap you in their specific cloud ...
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