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New comment by SIRHAMY in "High-Level Rust: Getting 80% of the Benefits with 20% of the Pain"

SIRHAMY — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:33:40 +0000

Big fan of Gleam! I am keeping my eye on it.

Agree that the types accomplish basically exactly what I want.

If it gets a decent community / ecosystem I think it would be a frontrunner for sure, especially for web apps.

One potential issue is that the runtimes it targets are not that great at processing - they fanout well on BEAM but may not be the best for heavy processing. Not a deal breaker but smth that others like F#, OCaml, Rust can outperform in if the other attributes do well.

New comment by SIRHAMY in "High-Level Rust: Getting 80% of the Benefits with 20% of the Pain"

SIRHAMY — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:30:28 +0000

Anecdotally I think AI is quite good at langs with lots of training data: C#, TypeScript Rust.

I also think it's much better with languages with more guardrails and clear syntax: think expressive types (sum types), brackets, and linters / compile checks.

Rust has expressive types and lots of compile checks to avoid classes of bugs via ownership / lifetimes and I think makes it a very good tool for agents to use.

New comment by SIRHAMY in "High-Level Rust: Getting 80% of the Benefits with 20% of the Pain"

SIRHAMY — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 19:27:42 +0000

C# is missing expressive types for me.

That might land with native unions but it's not there yet. There's workarounds with OneOf and Dune but those are kind of messy.

I think expressive types on dotnet are possible - I am a big fan of F# and those types are very good. So I think C# will get there but I can't say it's there yet.

New comment by SIRHAMY in "Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?"

SIRHAMY — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 16:50:13 +0000

Another F# fan here =)

I really like it for building backends but I haven't found the frontend story as compelling. Currently I use F# for my API and then use a standalone frontend (currently SvelteKit) to try and get the best tool for backend / frontend.

Q: How's your experience been with F# frontends? I'm assuming you're using Fable?

New comment by SIRHAMY in "Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?"

SIRHAMY — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 16:42:33 +0000

I've been building MVPs for the past yearish with this stack. Some of these choices are newish / smallish but it's the simplest, most enjoyable stack I've tried so far.

- Frontend: SvelteKit (Dockerized)

- Backend: F# / .NET running Giraffe (Dockerized)

- Data: Postgres (Managed - currently GCloudSQL)

- Hosting: Serverless Containers (currently GCloudRun)

I built a boilerplate for this to make it easier to improve / spin up: https://cloudseed.xyz

New comment by SIRHAMY in "Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?"

SIRHAMY — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 16:37:18 +0000

Oh wow - I thought it was broken.

Nope, just loading.

New comment by SIRHAMY in "Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?"

SIRHAMY — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 16:34:50 +0000

Same (but I use F#)!

I find .NET to be great for backends though maybe not as great for frontends (there's just better stuff out there). So I use the best tool for the job and that typically means using something else for frontend.

Right now I use SvelteKit for frontend.

New comment by SIRHAMY in "Ask HN: What would be your stack if you are building an MVP today?"

SIRHAMY — Fri, 27 Jan 2023 16:32:23 +0000

This is what I do.

* CloudRun - .NET in Docker * CloudSQL - Managed Postgres

New comment by SIRHAMY in "Ask HN: What weird technical scene are you fond/part of?"

SIRHAMY — Tue, 22 Nov 2022 15:10:14 +0000

- Solopreneur / Indie Hacker / Tiny SaaS scene. This is more an implementation strategy of my dreams of Financial Independence but I find these communities have large overlap. Building small, sustainable solutions to real-world problems to make a decent living. Not glamorous, but lots of freedom. Communities: IndieHackers and lots of people on Twitter.

- Simple Code. I think most system architectures / frameworks / languages are suboptimal - either being hard to reason about or a pain to code in, etc. So this bucket is about trying to find technologies that actually best support their usecases, regardless of what their adoption looks like. This led me to two scenes: Svelte / SvelteKit for frontend and F# for backend / general purpose programming and is now how I build pretty much all my apps (see: https://cloudseed.xyz). The subreddits for both these communities are good.

- Creative Coding / Technology - I used to be more involved here but now am more of an observer. Basically trying to use the power of computing to create cool things - mostly artistic. This comes in a range of forms but typically procedural / generative art is at the core. Subreddits r/generative and r/creativecoding are pretty active

New comment by SIRHAMY in "Ask HN: Side projects that are making money, but you'd not talk about them?"

SIRHAMY — Fri, 17 Jun 2022 12:48:55 +0000

This is cool! Great to see you've had some success here!

I've built something similar for my favorite tech stack but haven't had any sales yet. I find it useful in my own projects and I've seen other similar projects make some money (like JumpStart Pro for Rails) so thinking it's something around my positioning / offerings rather than full lack of a need.

Some things I think you're doing really well:

* Great sales copy and documentation

* Great aesthetics -> adds to "trust"

* Message bot for feedback

Qs:

* Q1: Did you do any customer research to help determine what features to build?

* Q2: What did you find (if anything) is the biggest reason people choose to use boilerplate rather than rolling their own?

For those interested -> CloudSeeed - SaaS boilerplate for Sveltekit + .NET + Postgres - https://cloudseed.xyz/

Scaling my sites by 12x by moving to Tailwind

SIRHAMY — Wed, 28 Oct 2020 13:10:18 +0000

Article URL: https://labs.hamy.xyz/posts/scaling-my-sites-by-12x-with-tailwind/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24918291

Points: 1

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Save the world with a personal carbon tax

SIRHAMY — Tue, 14 Jul 2020 16:41:49 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.iamhamy.xyz/posts/consider-a-personal-carbon-tax/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23834212

Points: 1

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Show HN: CareBoi – create custom care emojis

SIRHAMY — Sun, 10 May 2020 15:11:18 +0000

Article URL: https://careboi.xyz/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23133213

Points: 1

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New comment by SIRHAMY in "Ask HN: What projects are you working on now?"

SIRHAMY — Sat, 21 Mar 2020 20:18:49 +0000

Working on some creative coding projects that I've been putting off for the last few years. Latest one I've released is https://coronation.xyz/ - a visualization of the spread of coronavirus around the world, which I built with threejs

Coronation.xyz – a visualization of the spread of coronavirus around the globe

SIRHAMY — Sat, 14 Mar 2020 15:00:09 +0000

Article URL: https://coronation.xyz/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22575735

Points: 1

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I scale my sites to 500k* users per month for free

SIRHAMY — Sat, 29 Feb 2020 15:31:11 +0000

Article URL: https://labs.iamhamy.xyz/posts/how-i-scale-my-sites-to-500k-users-per-month-for-free/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22451011

Points: 2

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I can serve ~533k visitors (~927k pages) of my sites/month for free with Netlify

SIRHAMY — Wed, 26 Feb 2020 18:32:53 +0000

Article URL: https://labs.iamhamy.xyz/posts/how-many-visitors-can-the-netlify-free-tier-support/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22425767

Points: 3

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By making my own cold brew instead of buying, I can save $16,844 over 15 years

SIRHAMY — Sun, 05 Jan 2020 21:21:36 +0000

Article URL: https://blog.iamhamy.xyz/posts/the-value-of-making-my-own-cold-brew/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21964196

Points: 1

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Ask HN: How would you host a static site in 2020?

SIRHAMY — Wed, 25 Dec 2019 15:21:32 +0000

Yesterday I submitted a post I'd written about moving from Google Kubernetes Engine to Netlify (see HN submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21872910). In the comments, many people suggested alternatives they thought would've been better for my situation that I'd either never heard of or didn't realize were good options for my use case - Google's Cloud Run and App Engine, Firebase, AWS Lambda + S3 + Cloudfront CDN to name a few.

So I'm curious - if you were going to host your static site in 2020, how would you do it?

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21878792

Points: 1

# Comments: 4

New comment by SIRHAMY in "I moved my sites from Google Kubernetes Engine to Netlify and saved $1000 / year"

SIRHAMY — Tue, 24 Dec 2019 19:31:08 +0000

Oh wow, I'd never heard of Cloud Run before. Just popped some numbers in that I think are correct and it did come within the free tier range.

See GCP calculator: https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/#id=36a5f437-98...