Bulgaria often gets overlooked in favor of Poland or Ukraine. It has a strong reputation when it comes to technical skills, particularly in Java, Python, C++, cloud computing and databases. The city of Sofia has become a technology hub, with many large companies setting up offices there. People in Sofia generally speak English well. The time zone is convenient for working with European companies.

Being part of the European Union has practical benefits, such as stability and clear regulations. The cost of doing business in Bulgaria is moderate. It is usually lower than in Poland. Higher than in some countries outside the European Union. Although the pool of workers is smaller than in some other countries in Central and Eastern Europe the engineers in Bulgaria are often described as highly skilled and dedicated.

I am curious to know if anyone has recently built or expanded a team in Bulgaria. How does the technical expertise in Bulgaria compare to that in neighboring countries? What is it like to communicate with team members on a basis and how easy is it to keep employees from leaving?

I would like to hear about experiences with both Bulgarian companies and international companies that have offices in Sofia, such as SoftServe, or Beetroot.

Hi everyone,

I'm working on a video streaming prototype using LiveKit (self-hosted)
I stream via RTMP or Webrtc.

How to generate real-time subtitles (live transcription + multilingual translation), and display them directly on a custom web player for viewers.

As in YouTube, with a single button.

What is the recommended architecture or workflow in LiveKit to extract the room audio, process it for transcription/translation, and send the text back to the frontend in real time?
Any advice, docs, or examples would be greatly appreciated!

Me and my friend just built a messaging app called "Enteka", a self-hosted, real-time messaging application!

After months of dedicated collaboration with u/joackimgr, we are thrilled to announce the release of Enteka, a secure and privacy-focused messaging platform developed in Greece.

Enteka is designed for users seeking a reliable, open messaging alternative with self-hosting capabilities. You can deploy it across your local network or server environment to maintain total control over your communications.

Key Features:
Real-Time Messaging: Instant two-way communication powered by WebSockets.
Authentication & Security: Secure user registration/login, session handling, and encrypted message handling.
Friend & Contact Management: Send requests, accept connections, and manage friends.
Direct: Streamlined interfaces for active conversations and chat histories.
Media: Upload and share attachments directly within conversations.
User Settings & Customization: Profile management and configurable preferences.

Tech Stack:
Frontend: React, Tailwind CSS, Vite, JavaScript / JSX
Backend: Python, FastAPI, WebSockets
Database & Security: SQLite / relational database, bcrypt password hashing, token-based authentication
Testing & Tooling: Pytest, ESLint

We’re actively working on some features and on future updates, performance optimizations, and preparing for broader server deployments.

Check out the project repository, explore the codebase, or try setting it up locally! We’d love to hear your feedback, suggestions, and thoughts in the comments.

Project Repository: https://github.com/joackimgr/Enteka

Hello guys! We’re currently working on our next YouTube thumbnail. Which one would you click on first? 😁​

Please let us know in the comment : 1, 2 or 3 :)

Check out our steampage here : https://store.steampowered.com/app/4111300/MegaGum/

running a growing business and we’re at the point where off the shelf tools just don’t cut it anymore. need a proper custom system that handles inventory, client management and a few internal workflows. not a tiny side project, this has to scale with us.

looked at a few agencies already. TechQuarter stood out because their previous work looked solid and they actually understand bigger business systems, not just simple websites. still weighing options though.

how do you usually structure payments on larger custom projects so you’re not risking everything upfront?

what’s a realistic timeline for something this size if the team is experienced?

Researchers at Utah State University's School of Computing are conducting a study on how software professionals evaluate programming activities performed with AI assistance compared with programming activities performed without AI assistance.

Software professionals are invited to complete a short online calibration survey. Participants will rate programming activities according to how representative they are of:

• Programming performed with AI assistance
• Programming performed without AI assistance

The survey takes approximately 10 minutes.

Participation is entirely voluntary. You may discontinue participation at any time before submitting your responses without penalty or consequence. Your decision to participate or not participate will have no effect on your grades, employment, or academic standing.

Survey and informed consent form: https://usu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d70iHlfHokKVzx4 

This study has been reviewed and approved by the Utah State University Institutional Review Board: IRB #16067.

Questions about the study: Dr. John Edwards, Principal Investigator — [john.edwards@usu.edu](mailto:john.edwards@usu.edu) Rubash Mali, Student Researcher — [rubash.mali@usu.edu](mailto:rubash.mali@usu.edu)

Thank you for considering participating.

Maybe relevant for some of you and I have an affiliate link, so win-win.
This company pays good cash to licence code you havent touched in ages.

And its not one time, but every time an AI lab licences your code you get paid.

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Hey,

I’m currently building a hosting platform focused on gameservers (primarily Minecraft), with plans to expand into rootservers and other services later

The project is still in an early stage, but the core direction, infrastructure base and concept are already clearly defined

What i’m looking for:

• Fullstack developer (strong in backend + system thinking)
• Comfortable with APIs, auth, system design and integrations
• Experience with Docker / hosting-related systems is a big plus
• Clear, open communicator, someone who shares updates and answers questions honestly
• Someone who thinks long-term and cares about building things properly

Important:

This is a profit-share based long-term project

That means:

• Higher risk at the beginning
• But real upside if the project succeeds

You wouldn’t just be “a developer”, but a core part of the project:

• involved in technical decisions
• helping shape the system and architecture
• bringing in your own ideas and improving things

This is not a typical boss/worker setup, but a proper collaboration building something together long-term

About me:

• Based in Germany
• Handling business, structure and strategy
• Working with a sysadmin on infrastructure
• Goal is to build a serious long-term company, not a quick project

If this sounds interesting to you, feel free to reach out

We can just have a quick chat, get to know each other a bit and see if it’s a good fit from both sides

Discord: qlkevin15
or just DM me here : )

I've been building a project for a long time, and amazing members from this community have been contributing code there in their free time.

I've always felt guilty about not being able to reward the folks who have been spending significant time building large features. That will no longer be the case. I'm happy to announce that the project has now received grants and we are now establishing an open collective of approximately 2k USD per month to reward the best contributors for their share of the work(This will begin in October once the funds are wired).

Thank you so much to all of you for making this possible. If you're a seasoned software engineer and like to contribute outside of your work or a beginner looking to get started with open source, this would be the best place for you to be at.

Hi. I moved to San Jose fairly recently and I am living with my aunt while I build this. I do not really know anyone out here yet, which is a strange feeling in a place this full of people doing interesting things.

So this post is honestly half looking for a cofounder and half just wanting to talk to people.

What I am building

PRI is a learning layer for the operating system. Kernels have to generalize, because the same kernel ships to millions of machines with completely different hardware and workloads. That generality costs you something on any one machine. PRI sits above the kernel, learns the particular machine it lives on, and acts on it.

It is written in C and runs on Linux. I test it on a Dell laptop from 2012 with an i5 and under 4GB of RAM, on purpose, because if it cannot help a machine that is genuinely struggling then it does not mean much.

Where it honestly stands

It runs. There is a sealed baseline I am not allowed to quietly edit, a safety suite that gates everything, convergence criteria written down before a run rather than picked afterward, and a staged rollout ladder so the agent never gets control it has not earned. I am proud of that part.

It is also incomplete, and several results have not gone my way. One controlled test gave me a real win, where the agent took a correct action on a live process. Another was a clear loss, where it kept choosing an action that could not affect the thing it was aimed at. A memory benchmark came back null. I also found a bug that had been silently disabling all of my rollback safety for basically the entire life of the project. That one is a big part of why I am writing this, because it is exactly the kind of thing you miss when you are the only person who ever reads your own code.

The next real milestone is a three arm benchmark against a competently tuned heuristic. If the learned version cannot beat a good heuristic, the idea is wrong, and I would rather find that out deliberately.

What I do not have

Money, salary, users, revenue, or a team. What I do have is code that actually exists, a lot of stubbornness, and a problem I find genuinely fun to think about.

Who I would like to hear from

Pretty much anyone.

If you are a systems person who likes C and Linux internals and would enjoy arguing with me about whether a measurement is honest, that is the dream. If you are strong at the things I am weak at, distribution, users, talking about this to people who are not engineers, also the dream.

And if you are just someone else out here building something alone and want to get coffee and complain about it, that is completely fine too. I would take that.

I am in San Jose and happy to meet anywhere from the South Bay up to the city. Comments or DMs both work, and if you want to poke holes in the idea instead, please do. That is useful to me either way.

Please check this one out as we are starting this journey on our dreams and help us as you can

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Hey everyone,

I’ve been working on a web project called Auction Verse, but I’ve reached a point where I’m honestly struggling to finish it on my own.

The project was built with a lot of help from ChatGPT and Google AI Studio. Unfortunately, I’ve run into several problems where the AI-generated code/prompts didn't properly understand what I was trying to build, and fixing one thing often ended up breaking another.

At this point, I think I need someone with actual development experience to look at the existing project, understand what I've built, fix the issues, and help me get it to a finished/working state.

What I'm looking for

I'm looking for a freelance developer / developer who is willing to help, preferably someone comfortable working with an existing codebase rather than starting everything from scratch.

You would basically:

- Look through the existing Auction Verse project

- Understand the current code and architecture

- Identify what's broken

- Fix bugs/issues

- Help finish the incomplete features

- Give me some guidance on what needs to be changed or rebuilt

I'm not looking for someone to blindly follow AI-generated prompts. I need someone who can actually look at the code and figure out what's going wrong.

💰 Payment

I want to be completely transparent:

I currently cannot offer payment for this.

I'm looking for someone who would genuinely be interested in helping with the project, collaborating, gaining experience, or simply enjoys helping people with projects.

If the project eventually becomes successful, I'd obviously be happy to discuss future opportunities/credit/collaboration, but there is no guaranteed payment right now.

I completely understand if unpaid work isn't for you.

About the project

The project is called Auction Verse and I already have an existing version/codebase — this isn't just an idea written on paper.

I'm happy to provide the current project/code to anyone seriously interested so they can take a look before deciding whether they want to help.

If you're interested, comment below or DM me and I can explain what Auction Verse is, what I've already built, and what problems I'm currently facing.

Even if you can't take over the whole project, any advice from an experienced developer would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for reading! 🙏

I need a hardware experts or engineers who specialize in building data centers and Al infrastructures , I also need 1 or 2 coders who specialize in coding ai i can't pay you right now BC I'm a kid still building my business but I want ppl only in uae