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7 Open Issues Need Help Last updated: Nov 22, 2025

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AI Summary: The current onboarding form is a single, long page that overwhelms users and leads to low completion rates. The proposed solution is to transform it into a multi-step form with logical field groupings and progress indicators. This change aims to improve user experience, reduce friction, and ultimately increase form completion.

Complexity: 3/5
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AI Summary: Users are encountering a bug where changes made to their profile fields on the dashboard are not being saved or reflected after clicking the save button. The issue title suggests a cache invalidation problem, leading to stale data being displayed. Investigation should focus on the form submission, API update logic, and how data freshness is managed.

Complexity: 4/5
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AI Summary: The landing page of the Hackmate application has a visual bug where the 'what our user say' marquee component cards display an inconsistent color scheme. Specifically, the 'x user card' shows a styling discrepancy that needs to be corrected to ensure uniform appearance.

Complexity: 2/5
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AI Summary: This GitHub issue proposes adding an animation to card swipes when 'heart' or 'reject' buttons are pressed, mirroring the animation seen during manual swipes. The goal is to achieve consistent user experience by reusing existing swipe animation logic. A crucial aspect is handling failures, such as reverting the card's position if the associated action doesn't complete successfully.

Complexity: 4/5
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AI Summary: Users are encountering a bug where the system continues to prompt for an email address even after one has been successfully provided during profile creation. This indicates a potential issue with the state management or validation logic for email authentication.

Complexity: 2/5
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AI Summary: This issue requires the implementation of a new user sign-up page for the HackMate app, utilizing Clerk for authentication. The page needs to handle user registration, display Clerk-generated errors, redirect to the explore page upon success, and maintain UI consistency with the existing sign-in page across various device sizes.

Complexity: 2/5
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AI Summary: The onboarding form currently provides a poor user experience because it doesn't clearly indicate required fields or display submission errors to the user. Instead, errors are only visible in the console or network tab, making it difficult for users to understand and correct issues.

Complexity: 2/5
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A swipe-based matchmaking platform designed to help founders and builders discover potential co-founders, collaborators, or indie hackers

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