TECHGRAM: A DEVELOPER NATIVE SOCIAL MEDIA APP WITH CODE TO IMAGE POSTS AND LIGHTWEIGHT CODING CHALLENGES

Generic social platforms poorly support developer workflows such as sharing readable code, showcasing projects, and engaging in lightweight challenges that build skill and reputation.This work presents TechGram, a developer-focused social platform that organizes profiles around projects, shows code for readability, and offers small coding challenges in order to create a simple, recurrent participation cycle.A web-based implementation will be evaluated using task-centric metrics, such as first-time post creation, snippet reuse in a local editor, challenge submission, and click-through to GitHub/demo links, in addition to usability surveys and clarity assessments.The evaluation will follow the procedures outlined in Section 2, with pre-established success criteria (e.g., major follow-up actions like visiting repositories and valuable snippet reuse).It is meant to determine whether developer-specific affordances reduce posting friction in order to advise a roadmap that prioritizes clear core flows over more social features until empirical data are available.