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BilalBudhani

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About BilalBudhani

I use my tech & product building skill to solve problems. Find more about me at bilalbudhani.com or find me on Twitter @bilalbudhani

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    beautiful interface right? It is honestly so great working with such well thought out gem.

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    Comment #48891247

    I'm using RubyLLM which is an incredible framework for building agents.

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    Comment #48891165

    Thanks, My tech stack consists of: - Ruby on Rails - Vue.js + Inertia.js - PostgreSQL - TailwindCSS with Shadcn Vue UI the app runs on Hetzner VM deployed via Kamal. I'm planning t…

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    Comment #48889992

    I'm building https://supadesk.ai - An AI agent platform to help businesses manage their front-desk. I launched beta last month with a couple of customers in pilot phase. It has bee…

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    Comment #48334058

    Backbone written in CoffeeScript if you're an OG engineer

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    Comment #45964210

    everything is down except HN :D

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    Comment #45666367

    I recently moved a couple of Rails projects to a VPS using Dokploy and couldn't be happier. Apart from the cost savings the bump in available resources is a big plus. It is astonis…

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    Comment #45567409

    Working on https://fileboost.dev –– A Ruby on Rails Active Storage plugin that is a plug and play gem for image transformation without making any code changes. Being a Ruby on Rail…

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    Comment #44795545

    learning the crux of > Hard conversations, easy life. Easy conversations, hard life

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    Comment #44282131

    I'm glad to see efforts towards improving Ruby on Rails security, it honestly keeps the framework still the most viable choice.

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    Comment #43202830

    Yaak is great, I have been using it since the launch Greg. I'm kind of curious why you picked Tauri over Electron for this one? I know one big benefit is smaller binaries but I'd l…

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    Show HN: Invoice.pizza – invoice creation delightfully simple

    I opened http://bolt.new with no expections, one thing lead to another and I ended up building an invoice generator tool from scratch in ~4 hours with very little nudges from my si…

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    Comment #41775232

    I have been doing Ruby on Rails for ~14 years but ~10 years ago I was confused and I picked up Nodejs thinking it is the future of software development. It only took me a couple of…

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    Comment #41290084

    Thanks for mentioning this gem (literally). I moved my projects to GoodJob and it has been smooth sailing.

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    Comment #40049453

    I'm curious about this topic as well. I would also add NativeScript in the comparison. https://nativescript.org/

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    Comment #39928780

    Awesome! So great to see Iconbuddy starting to generate revenue, kudos :)

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    Comment #39560974

    FastMail, Cloudflare, GitHub co-pilot and OpenAI are some of the other services that comes to mind.

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    Comment #39550344

    Hetzner is one of those "just take my money" services, so more power to them. Besides, for some reason I always thought they charge hourly but show pricing in monthly format for ea…

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    Comment #39356411

    AFAIK, UAE has a minimum threshold of ~$100k of turnover to get eligible for VAT so I'm not sure why were you penalized. Besides, is your stripe + company registered in UAE?

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    Comment #39039846

    but it will only work with Indian issued cards.

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    Comment #38901737

    Gotcha! I'm gonna dig more into this stack. Thanks for breaking it down for me.

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    Comment #38901627

    nice! I'm curious to know why would you need Alpine or Htmx if you have one of them in your app? I thought they are mutually exclusive.

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    Comment #38900369

    I would say - htmx ( https://htmx.org/ ) - Alpine.js ( https://alpinejs.dev/ ) both are minimal and very easy to get started.

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    Comment #38899771

    Interesting! I haven't made anything serious yet with the PocketBase (mostly due to lack of time & not anything to do with PB). I'm curious to know what kind of projects did you bu…