I Built DevConnect — Because My Developer WhatsApp Group Is a Goldmine That Keeps Forgetting Everything

This is a submission for the DEV Weekend Challenge: Community The Community I'm part of a developer WhatsApp group. Over 100 members. All time zones. Every stage — from someone writing their very first console.log to senior engineers who've shipped at scale. It's one of the best communities I've ever been part of. And it has a devastating problem. Someone asks a brilliant question about async/await. Three senior devs drop genuinely life-changing explanations. A resource gets shared that would have saved you six hours last week. An accountability thread starts where people share what they're building. Then 48 hours later? Gone. Buried under good morning messages, memes, and someone asking the same async/await question again. The knowledge was there. The people were there. But WhatsApp has no memory. Every insight, every resource, every connection — evaporates. I've watched this happen week after week. And this weekend, I finally did something about it. What I Built DevConnect — a dedica