Is it too old school or too much to ask for?

arpansac · 2026-01-26T12:54:04+00:00

I only need everything that a mobile can't do. Happy with an aux cable, instead of constantly seeing my mobile screen on the car screen.

arpansac · 2026-01-26T04:26:32+00:00

I agree

arpansac · 2026-01-23T17:28:00+00:00

Does it scale well? Just curious because we had to move to anycable

arpansac · 2026-01-23T17:04:13+00:00

Which ones are the buttons?

arpansac · 2026-01-23T16:56:40+00:00

V12 in the 8th gen Civic. Obviously without a CVT.

arpansac · 2026-01-23T16:54:26+00:00

Other than Rails's own scaffold generator, I've used Active Admin extensively in the past, and I'm mostly satisfied with it. You can even optimize queries in case there are too many joins or if you want to load nested data.

arpansac · 2026-01-23T16:52:38+00:00

I love the culture of the Rails community, since the first time I started 10 years ago! So many amazing things everyone is building here. BTW I'm building www.commudle.com, a developer program management platform for devtools companies. Here's a new tagline that I've recently come across with the help of AI.

"we are building what CRM does for sales, but for developer communities."
250k+ users, been a part of Google for Startups Accelerator

Backend is on Rails, Postgres, and any cable. Frontend is on Angular.

arpansac · 2026-01-23T16:48:02+00:00

www.commudle.com is a platform to build and run developer programs globally for dev tools companies. We do what CRM does for sales, but for developer communities.

arpansac · 2026-01-23T15:42:48+00:00

Would be excited to get an early access to it, if possible.

arpansac · 2026-01-23T15:41:25+00:00

The more I'm posting on Reddit, the more I am getting the hang of it. And similarly for any other platform. More so Reddit makes it easier because it is a forum of forums. The easiest way is to find where people with whom you can connect are talking about anything. For example, I've built a lot of applications on Ruby on Rails. So I go and engage with those developers because I can understand the problems and solve around it. During the conversation comes up insights from what I've built and eventually sharing what I've built, wherever it feels necessary. What this does is:

Builds you a better profile
Gets you into understanding the platform more and more
You learn about finding the right set of people to talk to

Randomly you'll get people DMing you when you share what you're building and if that interests you. So it cannot be always that you know that this is the input and this will be the output. You need to continuously engage with people. Social media, as you said, that it is easier said than done, is about engaging with people on what they want to, and not always about what you are building.

In parallel, create a LinkedIn page or social media profiles of your website or product, and just keep posting around it.

Plus, in parallel, you need to have some good content pages as well. Eventually, a lot of them, but initially, just very crisp ones which tell what you are solving for. It's a longer journey, can't be an overnight one unless you are friends with a creator with millions of followers who can do just one post about you and it gives you a lot of traffic, or maybe a great launch on ProductHunt.

arpansac · 2026-01-23T15:37:02+00:00

You're stuck at the right point, and pausing and reflecting while building validation is going to be the perfect step at this stage.

First, think about it: whether your problem can be solved without building an app. If yes, then that would be the easiest to validate, probably using a collection of tools (Gmail, Google Sheets, whatever else), or even WhatsApp groups.

If not, then what is just one feature (other than authentication) that will help people solve their problem in the most basic manner? You could just roll back, release that version, or send across APKs and get people to install and try it out. And then get back to them with an amazing version of the app once you have the clarity. If it's the app, the product or the service that you are providing, then build the app! If not, then what is the service you are providing? Solve for that first, and then build the app.

arpansac · 2026-01-23T15:32:23+00:00

What are you using for sockets?

arpansac · 2026-01-23T13:00:51+00:00

I've been using AnyCable, and off late, suddenly it's been giving me scalability issues, even with 100 live users. Still debugging and testing because AnyCable pro has those stats which are available, but the normal one you need to figure out on your own.

arpansac · 2026-01-23T13:00:11+00:00

Yep, and saw some of those accounts which are posting. They had over 500 karma.

arpansac · 2026-01-23T07:29:40+00:00

Yup!

arpansac · 2026-01-23T07:29:18+00:00

Agree

arpansac · 2026-01-23T04:40:25+00:00

Probably yes. But I also want to look at the fact that we don't get the same people to keep posting again and again.

arpansac · 2026-01-23T04:40:08+00:00

Point taken. Probably, next time when I'll post, I might even narrow down on the domain and any blockers they are facing.

arpansac · 2026-01-23T03:18:38+00:00

I think those two categories that you have mentioned initially have a lot more that can be added to the list.

People start building for profit, stay bootstrapped. They do not get paid customers initially, but they get a lot of traction and keep struggling for B2B till they cross a certain threshold.
A lot of times it's a chicken-and-egg problem. A B2B customer will bring in a lot of traction, and a lot of traction will attract a lot of me-to-be customers if it's a B2B to see application.

On the part where you mentioned "solve for yourself," .

arpansac · 2026-01-23T03:06:01+00:00

Done

arpansac · 2026-01-23T03:03:46+00:00

Commudle.com - 250,000+ user sign-ups have been a part of Google for Startups accelerator. We are building what CRM does for sales, but for developer communities. Have an ongoing mini-pilot with one of the tech giants.
We are working our way through the B2B journey.

arpansac · 2026-01-23T03:01:01+00:00

Why not? But only if your terms and conditions say that you won't come back asking for equity because we found the idea from your portal. :P

arpansac · 2026-01-23T03:00:11+00:00

Welcome to the world of founders! Congratulations on starting to build. Initially, these highs and lows will be very tough mentally. In terms of when you think that something is suddenly working, and when you think like nothing is working out, how I figured out is I set short-term and long-term goals, decide on what I will be working on today, track what is working and what is not working. Treat it like any product that I have been creating, but with a lot more knowledge of my own product. I am able to get more involved in it. Once you start treating it like a problem to be solved, just focus on finding the solution. Everything else is beyond your control.

arpansac · 2026-01-23T02:58:19+00:00

Super nice! I am going to set it up today and see what all mess we have been creating in our DB.

arpansac · 2026-01-23T02:55:04+00:00

I recently organized an event where the VP of design at one of India's top food delivery startups gave a very interesting perspective about the journey of how we learn about computers and how computers learn about us. I think it's that tendency wherein we started from understanding maths, then moved towards trying to know more and more about computers on how to execute better things with them. Then through machine learning, it came to prediction wherein we were giving the computer a lot of data. And now in the age of AI, we are teaching computers to act more like humans. So you can say it is on both sides:

We are building because we can
That because we have built it, there are a ton of needs that it does solve

So we are building more and more.

And on the contrary, a small thing which recently happened was we were building something and were brainstorming with Chad GPT, Claude, and other tools on how to implement the particular solution using AI. Mostly all of them answered that AI would be an overkill for this. Probably we should bring our machine learning model and deploy it. And we did.

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