Hacker News: BilalBudhanihttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=BilalBudhaniHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Sat, 25 Jul 2026 05:23:41 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by BilalBudhani in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"]]>beautiful interface right? It is honestly so great working with such well thought out gem.

]]>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 12:00:57 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48891365BilalBudhanihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48891365https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48891365<![CDATA[New comment by BilalBudhani in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"]]>I'm using RubyLLM which is an incredible framework for building agents.

]]>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:50:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48891247BilalBudhanihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48891247https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48891247<![CDATA[New comment by BilalBudhani in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"]]>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 to do a detailed blog post on the tech stack soon.

I found initial customers by manual outreach within my network.

I don't see any potential issue with Supabase. Both names are drastically different and we serve different markets. Besides, there are plenty of other products name with "supa" prefix.

]]>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 11:42:54 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48891165BilalBudhanihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48891165https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48891165<![CDATA[New comment by BilalBudhani in "Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)"]]>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 been great learning experiencing building my first AI agent tool and running it in production.

]]>Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:27:59 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48889992BilalBudhanihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48889992https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48889992<![CDATA[New comment by BilalBudhani in "Ember.js 7.0"]]>Backbone written in CoffeeScript if you're an OG engineer

]]>Sat, 30 May 2026 08:39:11 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334058BilalBudhanihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334058https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48334058<![CDATA[New comment by BilalBudhani in "Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues"]]>everything is down except HN :D

]]>Tue, 18 Nov 2025 12:03:12 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45964210BilalBudhanihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45964210https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45964210<![CDATA[New comment by BilalBudhani in "Replacing a $3000/mo Heroku bill with a $55/mo server"]]>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 astonishing how Heroku still gets away with 512 mb memory for $25/m

background: I have been self-hosting apps on VPS for a while now but just started using a tool

]]>Wed, 22 Oct 2025 08:43:10 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45666367BilalBudhanihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45666367https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45666367<![CDATA[New comment by BilalBudhani in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (October 2025)"]]>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 Rails consultant, I frequently see active storage transformation becoming a bottleneck for web servers by eating up resources and making them sweat.

I built Fileboost to solve this problem for my customers. I'd love any feedback.

]]>Mon, 13 Oct 2025 12:04:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45567409BilalBudhanihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45567409https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45567409<![CDATA[New comment by BilalBudhani in "Ask HN: What trick of the trade took you too long to learn?"]]>learning the crux of

> Hard conversations, easy life. Easy conversations, hard life

]]>Tue, 05 Aug 2025 08:16:07 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44795545BilalBudhanihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44795545https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44795545<![CDATA[New comment by BilalBudhani in "Ruby on Rails Audit Complete"]]>I'm glad to see efforts towards improving Ruby on Rails security, it honestly keeps the framework still the most viable choice.

]]>Sun, 15 Jun 2025 13:10:40 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44282131BilalBudhanihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44282131https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44282131<![CDATA[New comment by BilalBudhani in "Show HN: Yaak – An open source, Git-friendly desktop API client"]]>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 love to know your thoughts behind this decision.

]]>Fri, 28 Feb 2025 07:42:28 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43202830BilalBudhanihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43202830https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43202830<![CDATA[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 side

https://invoice.pizza - A simple browser tool for creating invoices

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42376402

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]]>Tue, 10 Dec 2024 12:57:31 +0000https://invoice.pizzaBilalBudhanihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42376402https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42376402<![CDATA[New comment by BilalBudhani in "What's New in Ruby on Rails 8"]]>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 months to realized what Ruby on Rails offers & the vibrant ecosystem it has. I quickly pivoted back to it and never looked back. I'm very happy with that decision.

Take that plunge and you will not regret it later.

]]>Tue, 08 Oct 2024 09:08:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41775232BilalBudhanihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41775232https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41775232<![CDATA[New comment by BilalBudhani in "Show HN: PgQueuer – Transform PostgreSQL into a Job Queue"]]>Thanks for mentioning this gem (literally).

I moved my projects to GoodJob and it has been smooth sailing.

]]>Mon, 19 Aug 2024 11:31:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41290084BilalBudhanihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41290084https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41290084<![CDATA[New comment by BilalBudhani in "Ask HN: Flutter or React Native?"]]>I'm curious about this topic as well.

I would also add NativeScript in the comparison.

https://nativescript.org/

]]>Tue, 16 Apr 2024 07:57:01 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40049453BilalBudhanihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40049453https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40049453<![CDATA[New comment by BilalBudhani in "My boring icon search website making $4k per month"]]>Awesome! So great to see Iconbuddy starting to generate revenue, kudos :)

]]>Thu, 04 Apr 2024 11:03:45 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39928780BilalBudhanihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39928780https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39928780<![CDATA[New comment by BilalBudhani in "Hetzner switches to new billing model"]]>FastMail, Cloudflare, GitHub co-pilot and OpenAI are some of the other services that comes to mind.

]]>Fri, 01 Mar 2024 12:06:08 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39560974BilalBudhanihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39560974https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39560974<![CDATA[New comment by BilalBudhani in "Hetzner switches to new billing model"]]>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 easier pricing.

]]>Thu, 29 Feb 2024 15:10:13 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39550344BilalBudhanihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39550344https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39550344<![CDATA[New comment by BilalBudhani in "Ask HN: Do most startups simply ignore international taxes?"]]>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?

]]>Tue, 13 Feb 2024 10:40:26 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39356411BilalBudhanihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39356411https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39356411<![CDATA[New comment by BilalBudhani in "YouTube prime is $7 cheaper if you subscribe on the website"]]>but it will only work with Indian issued cards.

]]>Thu, 18 Jan 2024 09:43:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39039846BilalBudhanihttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39039846https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39039846