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New comment by ronakjain90 in "AWS multiple services outage in us-east-1"

ronakjain90 — Tue, 21 Oct 2025 07:21:04 +0000

we[1] operate out of `us-east-1` but chose to not use any of the cloud based vendor lockin (sorry vercel, supabase, firebase, planetscale etc). Rather a few droplets in DigitalOcean(us-east-1) and Hetzner(eu). We serve 100 million requests/mo, few million user generated content(images)/mo at monthly cost of just about $1000/mo.

It's not difficult, it's just that we engineers chose convenience and delegated uptime to someone else.

[1] - https://usetrmnl.com

New comment by ronakjain90 in "Show HN: Air Lab – A portable and open air quality measuring device"

ronakjain90 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 10:43:04 +0000

Your product looks so good, congratulations on your launch.

Have you considered making a standalone devices with just sensors (think data only mode) and letting the users hook up their data on any eink dashboard of their choice.

Below are some of the example of community created Air Quality dashboards[1] installable on any e-ink hardware[2].

[1] https://usetrmnl.com/recipes/62233, https://usetrmnl.com/recipes/23306

[2] https://github.com/usetrmnl/firmware/

Disclosure: I work at TRMNL.

New comment by ronakjain90 in "Show HN: eInk optimized manga with Kindle Comic Converter (+Kobo/ReMarkable)"

ronakjain90 — Wed, 07 May 2025 23:03:17 +0000

At TRMNL we have published a guide on how to jailbreak your Kindle[1], we also have a lot of community driven recipe[2] which are comics[3]

Disclosure: I work at TRMNL

[1]- https://usetrmnl.com/guides/turn-your-amazon-kindle-into-a-t...

[2]- https://usetrmnl.com/recipes

[3]- https://usetrmnl.com/recipes/27184

Era of AI Programmers

ronakjain90 — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 12:58:50 +0000

Article URL: https://ronakgothi.com/p/era-of-ai-programmers/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43743488

Points: 5

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New comment by ronakjain90 in "Train and Weather Tracker with Raspberry Pi and E-Ink"

ronakjain90 — Wed, 02 Apr 2025 10:45:48 +0000

TRMNL community has published a lot of train/metro schedule recipe[1], that can be installed on any e-ink screen[2]

- [1] https://usetrmnl.com/recipes/

- [2] https://docs.usetrmnl.com/go/diy/byod

Disclosure: I work at TRMNL.

New comment by ronakjain90 in "MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia"

ronakjain90 — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 04:43:21 +0000

That's the exact reason we built TRMNL, because your phone is consistently trying to seek your attention (hence distraction). TRMNL helps build personal dashboard without necessarily creating chaos. We built handful of native integrations[1], but you can completely hack it and create your own dashboard with simple HTML content[2].

[1] https://usetrmnl.com/integrations [2] https://usetrmnl.com/framework

New comment by ronakjain90 in "MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia"

ronakjain90 — Fri, 15 Nov 2024 03:15:06 +0000

I think you should also checkout TRMNL. Being engineers ourself security/privacy is of atmost concern, and we follow a similar architecture mentioned above. You could create a private plugin and send in data in the form of REST APIs[1]. You could also use your own webserver by hacking the firmware[2]

[1]-https://help.usetrmnl.com/en/articles/9510536-private-plugin...

[2]-https://github.com/usetrmnl/firmware/blob/main/include/confi...

New comment by ronakjain90 in "MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia"

ronakjain90 — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:44:39 +0000

You should check out usetrmnl.com. It's commercially available and has 50+ native plugins and many community driven recipes[1].

Disclosure: I'm from the TRMNL team.

[1] - https://github.com/usetrmnl/plugins

New comment by ronakjain90 in "MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia"

ronakjain90 — Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:36:55 +0000

Internally we are debating on releasing a Hackable DIY kit. Feel feel to send a message to support@usetrmnl.com.

It's shipped from USA.

New comment by ronakjain90 in "Ease of maintenance is a feature"

ronakjain90 — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 16:33:44 +0000

Every time I setup a JS project which is older than a few years, it's

1. Extremely difficult to setup the code base, because of dependency spaghetti 2. Lot of breaking changes across different libraries, making maintenance not so easy.

Easiest projects to maintain were written on Go, Java, Ruby,

Ease of maintenance is a feature

ronakjain90 — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 14:37:10 +0000

Article URL: https://ronakgothi.com/p/ease-of-maintenance-is-a-feature/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42087147

Points: 82

# Comments: 35

New comment by ronakjain90 in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (October 2024)"

ronakjain90 — Wed, 02 Oct 2024 06:02:56 +0000

Location: Chennai, India.

Remote: Preferred

Willing to relocate: Maybe

Technologies: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, AWS, Terraform, Docker, React, React Native, Nginix, Devops, Elixir.

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronakjain

Github: https://github.com/ronakjain90

Email: username [at] gmail

About me: I’m a Generalist Engineer with 14+ years of experience having good track record of building and shipping products. Domain knowledge includes - Algorithmic Options Trading, Fintech, Recruitment, E-Commerce, Hospitality and Travel, Real Estate, Crypto, Marketing automation, Consumer Application, Hardware projects. I’m a good IC and have also managed team of 10+ engineers.

New comment by ronakjain90 in "Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2024)"

ronakjain90 — Thu, 02 May 2024 09:58:41 +0000

SEEKING WORK — Remote — Partime

I’m a Generalist Engineer with 14+ years of experience having good track record of building and shipping products. Domain knowledge includes - Algorithmic Options Trading, Fintech, Recruitment, E-Commerce, Hospitality and Travel, Real Estate, Crypto, Marketing automation, Consumer Application, Hardware projects. I’m a good IC and have also managed team of 10+ engineers.

Location: Chennai, India.

Willing to relocate: Maybe.

Technologies: Rails, Node.js, AWS, Terraform, Docker, React, React Native, Nginix, Devops, Elixir.

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronakjain

Github: https://github.com/ronakjain90

Email: ronak@acuments.com

New comment by ronakjain90 in "A Japanese factory that designs clothes on a 40-year-old computer [video]"

ronakjain90 — Mon, 10 Jul 2023 07:16:19 +0000

Keep it simple and stupid

New comment by ronakjain90 in "Show HN: I bought a SaaS and am modernizing it"

ronakjain90 — Wed, 07 Oct 2020 12:26:20 +0000

Did you had any problem upgrading the CakePHP or the Tech stack in general? What are your future plans with respect to the continuing the existing tech.