DeadDevelopers Community Platform

A community platform for developers who use AI for 80%+ of their workflow. Built with FastHTML, Django, and Vercel.

About

From © ParadiseLabs

DeadDevelopers is an open-source collective for the post-human coder.

It's a community for the "dead" developers - like me! - who now build software with AI doing most (~80%) of the heavy lifting, if not more. Whether you're a beginner who starting using AI to skip tutorial purgatory, or a seasoned dev who (reluctantly, perhaps) stopped pretending, and can admit that Copilot and the Cline extension is your senior engineer, welcome.

Why "dead"?

Because if you’re not automating 80% of your workflow, you’re either lying or working twice as hard. We’re now the actual ghosts in the machine – debugging code hallucinations, refining prompts like incantations, and knowing when to CTRL+Z an AI’s “creative” solutions.

We're not about blindly copying AI output—there's actually an art to getting AI to build what you envision instead of what it thinks you want. Join Us if:

• You have frequently corrected (argued with) an AI about its code solutions
• Your "coding" involves more natural language than code
• You've deployed projects written 90% by AI - but with lots of orchestration and refining (and often having to fetch previous version's of a file from your IDE's timeline)

If this describes your everyday workflow - you'll fit right in

Features

• Real-time Community Chat
• Public and Private Rooms
• Developer Blogs & Articles
• Forums & Discussion
• Activity/Blog/Article Feeds Future
• Code Challenges with AI Evaluation
• AI Pair Programming Console
• Live Collaborative IDE

Tech Stack

• Frontend: FastHTML
• Backend: Django
• Hosting: Vercel Pro
• Database: Vercel Postgres
• AI/ML: OpenRouter + OpenAI + Vercel AI SDK

Contibution - Instructions

1. Clone the repository

2. Start a python venv

   python -m venv venv
   source venv/bin/activate (MacOS/Linux)
   venv\Scripts\activate (Windows)

3. Install the requirements:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

4. Add your .env variables:

   cp .env.example .env
   # Edit .env with your keys

5. Run development server:

   python main.py

Contributing

This project welcomes contributions, but please be aware of the following:

License: This project is not open-source and is released under a custom license. By contributing, you agree to license your contribution under the same terms. Commercial Use: Commercial use, modification, or distribution of this project or its derivatives is strictly prohibited without explicit written permission. Contact: To inquire about commercial licensing or discuss your contribution, please contact [].

Thank you for your understanding and willingness to contribute!

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