Deft Clay

long time hobby programmer here

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Hey what's up! I self-taught programming as a teen in the early 00's, drifted around into the military, got an engineering degree with CS minor, and have made various apps along the way! When I started programming it was a cool nerd hobby but not very lucrative. Now, I'm getting serious about getting back into creating cool apps for the world. I still have an app on the Apple Store called "Sendit Ballistics." It's a ballistics solver for all the rifle shooters out there. When I made the app I just figured I would build it and they will come, roflmao. I do plan to update this app, and launch here on ProductHunt at some point soon. Now I understand that I have to get in touch with my market to build an app that the folks want and that truly solves a problem. I'm toying with a few ideas right now: *A dashboard for homeowners, showing financial information and providing tools for home improvement and the like. Will want to intelligently integrate AI on this one. *A fired heater simulator (I'm an oil and gas engineer) *A super simple document review, control, and approval platform. Basically I just don't really like Bluebeam Revu or any of the other tools out there and feel they are too clunky and overpriced. I'm now updating my knowledge for web-based SaaS apps by learning Django. My previous web programming experience was in Perl!

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Rakee Kumari
Nice! Any favorite programming languages or recent projects
Derek Liu
It’s awesome that you have so much experience building projects! I’ve learned quite a few programming languages myself, such as C++, C#, Java, Ruby (on Rails), Python, and now I mostly use JavaScript and TypeScript for building my web app (aka SPA, single-page application). I have a CS degree, but I still find it overwhelming at times to keep up with new techniques, especially back in 2015 when JavaScript and its ecosystem advanced so rapidly. And these years, with neural networks and deep learning, including CNN, RNN, GAN, and LLM, it feels like there’s always more to learn.
Aisha Muhammad yaya
Cool! do you focus on web app or the others programming
Deft Clay
Quick update, I am prepping to launch my fired heater simulation, FiredHeaterPro. I'd appreciate the support! https://www.producthunt.com/post...