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 I used to own an old Huawei phone that had this awesome feature that gives a small vibration when a call gets answered from the receiver. This was such an awesome feature I came to like coz: I don't need to keep my phone on the ear listening to the ringing. No need to keep staring at the screen until I see the call timer starts. I can keep working on whatever I was in the middle of until the person actually answers. However, I couldn't find this feature in other Android phones that I used after that. I was using Samsung, and Pixel. I've been using Pixel for many years now and I wanted this feature in Pixel phones all these years. So, I decided to build it on my own. Hence the app was built CallVibe Guard. I tested this on Google Pixel 10 pro and working great. I've published the code in GitHub as an open source project so anybody can pitch in for testing in different Android phones and report bugs, help make it stable for others to use as well. Basically this is a simp...

Coding is cheaper? In the current day and age, since the start of AI coding agents, the new software products are getting high rocketed. The official GitHub stats are proving this already.  There're news that GitHub is barely holding against new traffic with AI agents and some companies like Anthropic are trying to switch to new version controlling systems that can scale with the rate of AI agent traffic. This means coding is a software product is getting cheaper and cheaper everyday compared to coding with humans as it used to be. This means new software products are getting created and people are starting to build new products even without any developing or engineering background who are vibe coders.  Now, it seems a unique code or a feature is not going to be a flagship product to a certain company anymore. This is getting proven everyday with replicating products of flagship brands that used to dominate the market. We're seeing replicas of Office suites, image editing, vid...