Throw a Coin to Your Dev

Hey, I'm Kalleb Santos—a software engineer who codes by day, debugs by night, and occasionally questions every life decision that led me to choose programming as a career. I built ThrowACoin.dev at 2 AM after spending four hours hunting a bug that turned out to be a typo in a variable name. Classic. That's when I realized something profound: if I'm going to suffer through coding life, I might as well turn it into a funny donation site where people can laugh at my pain and throw me a coin to keep the servers running. Think of it as a digital therapy session where the therapist is broke, caffeinated, and really needs you to appreciate his work. ☕💀

I'm your typical indie developer—which is a fancy way of saying I do everything: frontend, backend, DevOps, customer support, marketing, and occasionally graphic design (badly). My LinkedIn says I'm a "Full-Stack Developer," but honestly, it should say "Full-Panic Developer Who Googles Everything." I've built this entire indie project solo because I'm either ambitious or terrible at delegating (it's definitely the second one). ThrowACoin.dev isn't just a website; it's my love letter to every developer who's ever stared at a screen for six hours, fixed one line of code, and felt like they conquered Everest. It's also my revenge against every Stack Overflow answer that started with "This question has already been answered..." (No, Brian, it hasn't. Not for my specific edge case from hell.) 🔥

Why does this site exist? Simple: I wanted to transform the universal developer experience—bugs, burnout, and bad commit messages—into something people could connect with and actually support a developer through. Instead of building another SaaS nobody asked for or a to-do app that gets abandoned in a week, I decided to create a space where dev humor meets real impact. Every coin thrown here doesn't go to some faceless corporation or VC-funded startup with a ping-pong table. It goes directly to keeping this project alive, funding tools that make my life less miserable, and occasionally upgrading my coffee from gas station sludge to something that doesn't taste like regret. Plus, let's be honest: being an indie dev is lonely. You're your own boss, coworker, and the person who has to fix your own terrible code six months later. This site is my way of building a community—a digital campfire where we can all gather, share horror stories, and remember why we fell in love with coding in the first place (spoiler: we can't remember either, but here we are). 🐛✨

If you're reading this, you probably understand the struggle. You've been there—the 3 AM production crashes, the "it works on my machine" disasters, the existential dread when you realize you have 47 browser tabs open and none of them have the answer you need. ThrowACoin.dev is my tribute to that chaos. It's built with Next.js (because I hate myself), Supabase (because I'm too broke for fancy databases), and way too much caffeine. I coded this while juggling freelance gigs, side projects, and the constant fear that I'll wake up one day and forget how semicolons work. So if you vibe with this energy—if you've ever laughed at a programming meme, survived a merge conflict, or felt personally attacked by ESLint—consider throwing a coin my way. Every coin is one less coffee to skip and one more bug exterminated. ☕🐞 Thank you for being here, for supporting indie devs, and for reminding me that somewhere out there, someone thinks my code isn't complete garbage. You're a legend. 🪙💚