raghavb's comments

raghavb | 11 years ago | on: Ask HN: MVP uses PHP, needs a rewrite. Should we use Laravel, or Ruby on Rails?

I would say depends on what your goals are. Is this a personal project and do you want to make money with it or is this something that you are doing for learning as part of your career.

If you want to make money on the project and want to get it out as fast as possible Go with laravel. You already know the stack and will be productive in it. You might also be able to reuse parts of the code thats already written or put it in the right place.

On the other hand if you want to learn another programming language or want to go outside of your comfort zone then give Ruby on Rails a shot. Not sure about Laravel but for a small to medium website, ruby does make adding a lot of features much faster via its gems.

raghavb | 12 years ago | on: Show HN: Honeybadger Chrome Extension

The most useful/interesting for me is the technology section. As that's not the easiest to get data about. Unfortunately the info that its giving is completely false/random. Checked it on a few websites that I've built or know the stack and the info shown is completely wrong.

www.builtwith.com provides much more information but they do not have a chrome plugin that I'm aware of. Definitely should check it out if your interested in this plugin.

raghavb | 12 years ago | on: Ask HN: What'd you do to get your first 100 users?

Bunkmate.in told a few friends about it in college and . Grew from there.

raghavb | 14 years ago | on: Hacking The iPod: How I Earned $65K In High School

Awesome to hear, did something similar. In 2009 I failed a paper in high school and as a result had to rewrite the paper in 2010. Being into computers and stuff a few of my friends asked me to unlock their iPhones that they had gotten(This is in India and people use to abuse the 200$ iPhone by getting them through relatives in the US). I soon realized there was a market for this sort of thing and started unlocking iPhones as a business by advertising on craigslist. Made about 1100$ which in Indian rupees is about Rs 55000 which is a lot. Helped paid for a lot of my computer gear.

raghavb | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: Rails One Click Installer for Mac Os X

This should hopefully help in eradicating "Chapter One: Installing Rails" from most Ruby on Rails books. Perhaps one of the the most frustrating chapters that someone beginning to learn Rail's faces.