rijavecb

Location: Romania & Serbia (Europe)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript, React, Astro, Hono.js, Node.js, Pocketbase, PostgreSQL, PHP, Laravel, Inertia, TailwindCSS

Résumé/CV: https://rijavecb.com/ | https://rijavecb.com/cv.pdf

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rijavecbranimir

Email: hn [at] rijavecb.com

Hi, I'm Branko. I am looking for a position in a small team where I can wear multiple hats: building features, handling support tickets, writing documentation, SEO.

I have an engineering degree in Geodesy/GIS and 5+ years of customer support experience. I've developed products like a text analysis tool, a fishing logbook app, and an app for easing certain customer support tasks (links on website).

If you need someone who is just as comfortable handling support and documentation as they are writing code, I'd love to chat.

I'm continuing to work on my fishing-log app: https://buckaros.com/ (It's in Serbian, at least for now). I recently added an option to attach images to fishing logs, locations, and equipment using Cloudflare's R2. Now I've started working on adding teams support, so that you can chat with your friends and see their catches and locations.

Location: Romania & Serbia (Europe)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript, React, Astro, Hono.js, Node.js, Pocketbase, PostgreSQL, PHP, Laravel, Inertia, TailwindCSS

Résumé/CV: https://rijavecb.com/ | https://rijavecb.com/cv.pdf

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rijavecbranimir

Email: hn [at] rijavecb.com

Hi, I'm Branko. I am looking for a part-time or contract position in a small team where I can wear multiple hats: building features (Frontend/Node/Laravel), handling support tickets, writing documentation, and improving SEO.

I have an engineering degree in Geodesy/GIS and 5+ years of customer support experience. I've developed products like a text analysis tool, a fishing logbook app, and an app for easing certain customer support tasks (links on website).

If you need someone who is just as comfortable handling support and documentation as they are writing code, I'd love to chat.

It's possible to get rid of it. Just delete the VM Bundle file(s) and add `"secureVmFeaturesEnabled": false` to your `claude_desktop_config.json`.

You can find more info here: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/22543#issue...

Location: Romania & Serbia (Europe)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript, React, Astro, Hono.js, Node.js, Pocketbase, PostgreSQL, PHP, Laravel, Inertia, TailwindCSS

Résumé/CV: https://rijavecb.com/ | https://rijavecb.com/cv.pdf

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rijavecbranimir

Email: hn@rijavecb.com

Hi, I'm Branko. I am looking for a part-time or contract position in a small team where I can wear multiple hats: building features (Frontend/Laravel), handling support tickets, writing documentation, and improving SEO.

I have an engineering degree in Geodesy/GIS and 5+ years of customer support experience. I've developed products like a text analysis tool, a fishing logbook app, and an app for easing certain customer support tasks (links on website).

If you need someone who is just as comfortable handling support and documentation as they are writing code, I'd love to chat.

I missed your Show HN, but I got the game now. Looks fun, and the fact that each citizen is simulated reminds me of Banished, which I enjoyed playing! Was happy to spend some wallet money I got from CSGO cases.

Thank you for making it, and don't give up. Passion and vision > vibe coding sloptimists.

Location: Romania & Serbia (Europe)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript, React, Astro, Hono.js, Node.js, Pocketbase, PostgreSQL, PHP, Laravel, Inertia, TailwindCSS

Résumé/CV: https://rijavecb.com/ | https://rijavecb.com/cv.pdf

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rijavecbranimir

Email: hn@rijavecb.com

Hi, I'm Branko. I am looking for a part-time or contract position in a small team where I can wear multiple hats: building features (Frontend/Laravel), handling support tickets, writing documentation, and improving SEO.

I have an engineering degree in Geodesy/GIS and 5+ years of customer support experience. I've developed products like a text analysis tool, a fishing logbook app, and an app for easing certain customer support tasks (links on website).

If you need someone who is just as comfortable handling support and documentation as they are writing code, I'd love to chat.

Happy New Year from Bucharest!

My wrap includes getting married, travelling to Italy, Slovenia and Germany, finally making a few sales of the app I'm working on, and dealing with residence permit. In 2026 I will continue working on my apps and hopefully make more sales, I hope to do some freelancing, fish more with dad and travel a bit.

I'm planning to read more, mostly technical books recommended by the fine folks on the Book Overflow podcast and a few books on writing. As someone who's mostly self-taught, I know I have many gaps in my knowledge, so I'd like to fill some of those. And learning new things just feels great.

I'm also hoping to improve my Romanian. While I can get by (my wife is Romanian and we live there), I make waay too many mistakes, and considering I've been living there for a few years now, I feel I should do better.

This year has been pretty busy with personal things and working on my own apps, so I hope next year I can get back to learning things I find interesting and useful.

Hi! I'm Branko, a web developer with an engineering background in Geodesy/GIS and 5+ years of customer support experience. I've developed products like a text analysis tool, a fishing logbook app, and an app for easing certain customer support tasks, handling everything from initial concept to deployment.

If you're looking for someone who can wear multiple hats and contribute to various aspects of your product, I'd love to chat!

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Location: Serbia/Romania (Europe)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript, React, Astro, Hono.js, Node.js, Pocketbase, PostgreSQL, PHP, Laravel, Inertia, TailwindCSS

Résumé/CV: https://rijavecb.com/ | https://rijavecb.com/cv.pdf

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rijavecbranimir

Email: hn@rijavecb.com

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Projects:

https://gorby.app/ - A privacy-focused text analysis tool (React, Pocketbase, Node.js)

https://buckaros.com/ - A digital fishing logbook for Serbian (and ex-YU) fishermen (Laravel, React, Inertia.js)

Hi! I'm Branko, a web developer with an engineering background in Geodesy/GIS and 5+ years of customer support experience. I've developed products like a text analysis tool, a fishing logbook app, and an app for easing certain customer support tasks, handling everything from initial concept to deployment.

If you're looking for someone who can wear multiple hats and contribute to various aspects of your product, I'd love to chat!

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Location: Serbia/Romania (Europe)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript, React, Astro, Hono.js, Node.js, Pocketbase, PostgreSQL, PHP, Laravel, Inertia, TailwindCSS

Résumé/CV: https://rijavecb.com/ | https://rijavecb.com/cv.pdf

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rijavecbranimir

Email: hn@rijavecb.com

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Projects:

https://gorby.app/ - A privacy-focused text analysis tool (React, Pocketbase, Node.js)

https://buckaros.com/ - A digital fishing logbook for Serbian (and ex-YU) fishermen (Laravel, React, Inertia.js)

GLM 4.5 is a great budget option for me. After cancelling Claude sub ($20 USD one), I've been trying Gemini 2.5 Pro through Gemini CLI, and it was okay for landing pages and UI. However, I switched to GLM through Claude Code using their cheapest subscription and it's been pretty good so far. It feels more creative than Gemini when it comes to UI, not Claude Sonnet level (can't compare with Opus), but it's 90% there. It also follows instructions better than Gemini, and makes fewer or no syntax errors. Gemini through Gemini CLI would somewhat often completely mess up Astro files, or be a bit lazy. No such problems on AI Studio though.

A few days I got their quarterly promo plan ($9 USD), so I'm excited to try 4.6.

Hi! I'm Branko, a web developer with an engineering background in Geodesy/GIS and 5+ years of customer support experience. I've developed products like a text analysis tool, fishing logbook app, and app for easing certain customer support tasks, handling everything from initial concept to deployment.

If you're looking for someone who can wear multiple hats and contribute to various aspects of your product, I'd love to chat!

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Location: Serbia/Romania (Europe)

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript, React, Astro, Hono.js, Node.js, Pocketbase, PostgreSQL, PHP, Laravel, Inertia, TailwindCSS

Résumé/CV: https://rijavecb.com/ | https://rijavecb.com/cv.pdf

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rijavecbranimir

Email: hn@rijavecb.com

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Projects:

https://gorby.app/ - A privacy-focused text analysis tool (React, Pocketbase, Node.js)

https://buckaros.com/ - A digital fishing logbook for Serbian (and ex-YU) fishermen (Laravel, React, Inertia.js)

I recently started working on a fishing journal/log kind of app. I got that idea last year when returning from fishing with dad, that it would be nice if we could track what we caught each time we went fishing, where we went, and to track some details (water and wea details). There apps that already do that, and one could also use Excel or just paper notebook, so I'm making this mainly for us and his friends to use. It's still early, but I'd like to add groups so you can exchange messages or catches with your friends, add stats allowing you to see for example at what time and where you caught most fish, or using which lure or bait. The app is in Serbian though, but here's a link if you want to check it out: https://buckaros.com

Thanks! I built the editor using Tiptap (https://tiptap.dev/) which doesn't support Markdown out of the box. However, since it can detect Markdown shortcuts (#, ##, >, etc.), it should be possible to convert a markdown file into rich text, and then when done writing and editing convert it back into markdown, while limiting formatting options only to ones that are available for both. I think Joplin (https://joplinapp.org/) does something similar.

I'll think about this for sure, especially since I've been thinking of making it possible to save and read local files. If you'd like to try Gorby, send me an email and I'll be happy to give you a free license code :)

I'm working on Gorby [0], a text analyzer app I've been building for almost 2 years now. Think of it as a mix between Hemingway editor, Prowritingaid and Readable, but with focus on features I care about more. Lately I've just been polishing existing features, like adding some subtle animations to the sidebar icons last week. I'm thinking of adding an integration with local LLMs to it too.

I'm also building a customer support app when I'm taking a break from Gorby. The idea is to make it easier to organize and quickly find/copy useful replies, discounts, screenshots etc. It's similar in concept to text expander apps, but those never worked great for me, I either forget the triggers or don't bother storing things I don't use daily. You could probably use Notion for this too, but to me it's too clunky and slow.

[0] https://gorby.app/

Location: Serbia/Romania

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript, React, HTML, CSS, TailwindCSS, Astro, Hono.js, Node.js, Pocketbase, PHP & Laravel (learning)

Résumé/CV: https://rijavecb.com/ | https://drive.google.com/file/d/1TImLOTN6iaGoJd_SyVGc65_DfGK...

GitHub: https://github.com/rijavecb

Email: hn@rijavecb.com

Hi there, I'm Branko! I'm seeking a product or support engineer role in a startup/SaaS company. I'm a generalist who enjoys working across the stack, from front-end to back-end and everything in between - what I think Signal v. Noise would call a "manager of one" [1].

My background includes customer support in a tech startup and front-end development. Last year I launched my own product (https://gorby.app/) where I've experienced the full cycle of building, designing, and deploying. I'm currently working on expanding it with some AI features.

If you're looking for someone who can wear multiple hats and contribute to various aspects of your product, I'd love to chat!

[1] https://signalvnoise.com/posts/1430-hire-managers-of-one

Location: Serbia/Romania

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript, React, HTML, CSS, Astro, Pocketbase, Node.js, PHP & Laravel (learning)

Résumé/CV: https://rijavecb.com

GitHub: https://github.com/rijavecb

Email: hn@rijavecb.com

Hi there, I'm Branko! I'm seeking a part-time role (15-20 hours/week) in a small startup/SaaS, some sort of a product or support engineer position. I'm a generalist who enjoys working across the stack, from front-end to back-end and everything in between.

My background includes customer support and front-end development, and I'm always eager to learn new technologies. Last year I launched my own project (https://gorby.app) so I've experienced the full cycle of building, designing, and deploying a product. I'm currently working on improving it, redoing the landing page, and pivoting to more of a text editor.

If you're looking for someone who can wear multiple hats and contribute to various aspects of your product, I'd love to chat!

Zoho is pretty cheap and not bad. They also own Zeptomail [1] that is meant for transactional emails, also cheap and you can even buy credits in advance. Haven't tried it yet though.

[1] https://www.zoho.com/zeptomail/pricing.html

TailwindCSS is indeed free, but their UI components and themes (TailwindUI) are a paid product. They do offer some components for free though!

There's also Microsoft Editor to which I switched from Grammarly. I'd say it gets in the way a bit less than Grammarly but the suggestions popup/window sometimes gets buggy. It only works in Chromium browsers, so unfortunately no Firefox add-on :/

How come a post with so many votes and comments, submitted just 4 hours ago, is already on the 3rd page? Would have missed an interesting discussion haven't I seen a link to it on Reddit

Thank you for mentioning Congo! I was thinking to make a personal blog using Astro, but since Congo looks great I might as well go with it and Hugo.

Location: Serbia/Romania

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript, React, HTML, CSS, Astro, Pocketbase

Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rijavecbranimir/

GitHub: https://github.com/rijavecb

Email: hn@rijavecb.com

Hi there, I'm Branko! I'm in search of a part time position (10-20 hours per week) in a small startup/SaaS where ideally I'd be doing a bit of everything, some kind of support engineer like position. I like interacting with and helping users, finding out what they're struggling with, and using that to help the team improve the product. For the last 4 years, I've been working as customer support specialist at a small productivity/to-do app SaaS. Besides helping users with all kinds of questions and issues, I've been writing guides for our help center, testing new features and as of recently fixing some bugs in the codebase and adding smaller features. I'm not looking to leave this position, but rather for another opportunity to learn more things and also help another team grow their product.

Recently I also launched a small SaaS for text analysis [1] that I wrote in React (used Vite, TailwindCSS, Jotai for state management, compromise and unified.js for NLP, Pocketbase for backend) and deployed via Docker on a VPS. It's far from perfect, and there are many more things to add, but I'm proud I managed to release an MVP.

Looking forward to hearing from you :)

[1] – https://gorby.app

Pocketbase is amazing! So far I had a great experience using it as a backend/database for the app I'm building where I'm using React with Vite for the frontend. I'm using it mainly for auth and for keeping track of paid and free accounts. Some things that I found rather useful:

- It's super easy to host. I was initially thinking of using Appwrite or Supabase but found it a tricky to self-host them, especially Supabase. I could spin up Appwrite quickly via CapRover, but found it an overkill for what I needed.

- View collections [1] make it easy to return just a subset of the data that you need. In my case I'm using a view collection as a join for users and paid_users collections, where I just return their paid through date.

- The fact that you can extend it with Go or JS [2] should make it possible to completely skip having a backend, at least if your needs aren't very complex.

I definitely plan to continue using it for some smaller/side projects. Currently I'm thinking of trying to use it as CMS for an Astro blog and in the future as backend for some browser extensions.

[1] https://pocketbase.io/docs/collections/#view-collection

[2] https://pocketbase.io/docs/use-as-framework/

About the tech stack, the linked landing page is built with Astro and Tailwind CSS. The app itself [1] was made with React, Tailwind CSS, Vite, Jotai for state management & Pocketbase. Text processing is built on top of retext, unified.js, and compromise libraries. Using Jotai turned out pretty nice and I really like the atomic approach to state. Basically, I've split the state into few different stores, one for text stats, one for settings and one for auth. `atomWithStorage` is great and makes storing and reading data from localStorage a breeze.

Pocketbase was also easy to get started with and to deploy it. I'd say if you don't need things like cloud/edge functions and also want to self host it, it's easier than Supabase or Appwrite.

Currently everything is deployed on Hetzner arm VPS behind Traefik.

[1] https://gorby.app/analyze/

https://gorby.app - Just a word counting/text analyzing app. It started as a potential porfolio project and at some point I decided to turn it into something others could use too. I don't think it has any features that can't be found elsewhere, but I'd say it turned out pretty decent. I'm aware that it could look a bit better on mobile, so I plan to improve that.

If anyone would like to try "pro" features, please feel free to send me an email and I'll give you a code. Feedback is more than welcome! :)