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I thought it would be interesting to see what everyone here is actually building with Python.

If you're working on a project, share it below or in r/PythonBuilders . It can be anything — an app, game, automation tool, library, SaaS, API, desktop app, or even a small experiment.

If you can, tell us:

• What are you building?
• What does it do?
• How far along are you?
• What's the biggest challenge you're dealing with right now?

It doesn't have to be finished or impressive. I'm more interested in seeing what people are working through and learning along the way.

What are you building?

I thought it would be interesting to see what everyone here is actually building with Python.

If you're working on a project, share it below or in r/PythonBuilders . It can be anything — an app, game, automation tool, library, SaaS, API, desktop app, or even a small experiment.

If you can, tell us:

• What are you building?
• What does it do?
• How far along are you?
• What's the biggest challenge you're dealing with right now?

It doesn't have to be finished or impressive. I'm more interested in seeing what people are working through and learning along the way.

What are you building?

In hindsight I think most of us made at least one mistake in our first year on the job. Some learned to set healthy boundaries only much later, others tried too hard to impress everybody.

What advice would you have for someone starting his or her first full time job today?

It’s not usually a promotion or a rise.

Sometimes it’s a manager who listens, gives credit or just treats people with respect.

In hindsight, what is one thing a manager did that made you want to stay?

It wasn't the big things that made me like a place to work, in hindsight. It was the little things like someone taking the time to help, a manager saying thank you or feeling comfortable to ask a question without judgement.

These tiny details are easy to overlook, but they often make or break the entire work experience.

What’s one small thing that made a workplace better for you?

I have noticed that trust at work usually isn't lost because of one big mistake.

It's often the small things that happen over and over, like saying one thing and doing another, taking credit for someone else's work, or only listening when it's convenient.

Once that trust is gone, it's hard to get it back.

What's the fastest way a manager has lost your trust?

What I have found is good employees rarely leave after a bad day.

It’s often the little things that keep happening, like feeling ignored, broken promises or putting in extra effort and not feeling appreciated.

Sometimes when they decide to leave, it is something they have been thinking about for a long time.

What in your experience, drives a good employee to finally leave?

I have been learning Python for a while now and some days I feel like I'm doing pretty well. Other days, what seems easy takes a lot longer than I thought. I'm just curious if this is part of the learning process or if I'm missing something. When did you start to feel more comfortable with Python and what helped you get to this point?

When I took this job, I hardly ever said no. Normally if someone needed help or asked me to take on something extra I’d do it without a second thought.

After some time I started getting more and more work. I don’t think anybody wanted to take advantage of me. It was just easier to ask because they knew I’d get it done.

I still enjoy helping my team, but I have started to wonder if being reliable sometimes makes people expect more from you than they should.

When people talk about jobs, salary tends to get the most attention. But it’s not the only thing that affects job satisfaction.

Many employees find that over the years some benefits are far more important than they thought. A good boss, flexible hours, a short commute, nice coworkers, remote working options, or a healthy work life balance can make a huge difference.

Sometimes people don’t know how good they have it until they go work for a place that doesn’t

What do you think is the most underrated workplace benefit?

There are many features within Power Platform that are regularly covered in tutorials, videos and community discussions.

There are also features that don’t seem to be mentioned very often, but can save time, improve maintainability, or make solutions much easier to manage.

Sometimes these features turn into some of the most valuable tools in day to day work.

What do you think?

What Power Platform feature do you think is most underrated and why do you think more people don’t talk about it?

Every workplace has rules, policies or procedures that seem sensible when they’re introduced.

Sometimes they even seem like a good idea at first. Then they are used and then problems not foreseen are encountered. Productivity drops, communication deteriorates, or employees spend more time working around the rule than the benefits of it.

The intention may have been good but the result is the opposite.

What workplace rule did you find to be a mistake in practice, even though it sounded good on paper?