Rate Limiting and Job Orchestration at Scale
Building distributed rate limiting with Redis and Lua, and a backpressure-aware job dispatcher for AI agents
Alexander Ivkin
indie hacker, author of Ace Trace app
Latest posts
The Acquisition
Selling Ace Trace: lessons from negotiating my first indie app acquisition
Fashion Search Ai Powered Style Discovery in One Day
Building an AI fashion search engine in 8 hours with Next.js, GPT-4 Vision, and real-time product recommendations
Vibe Debugging With Memes
Building an MCP server that generates memes from error messages for vibe debugging
MIT AI Filmmaking Hackathon
Creating a 2-minute AI film at MIT AI Filmmaking Hackathon using OpenArt, Midjourney, and ElevenLabs
My Startup Journey: Challenges and the Battle for Intellectual Property
Co-founder search through YC matching platform and lessons from a startup partnership gone wrong
Ace Trace Social Feed and 2022 Updates
2022 recap: hiring ML engineers, YC Startup School learnings, and building a social feed for Ace Trace
How to build and use a DyLib in iOS app
Using Boost and Ceres Solver in iOS: building dynamic libraries for physics-based golf ball trajectory fitting
Summer status update
Finding product-market fit for Ace Trace: UX experiments, pricing strategies, and cofounder search
San Francisco Startup Conference
First time at a Silicon Valley startup conference: networking tips and the reality of founder events
Matrices and camera pose estimation
Understanding matrix transformations for Visual SLAM and camera pose estimation in mobile AR apps
Reality Hack is over
Lessons from MIT Reality Hack: joining teams, managing stress, and building a pitch training VR game
Getting ready for MIT Reality Hack
Preparing for MIT Reality Hack: exploring AR/VR development with Apple ARKit, Unity, and A-Frame
I quit my job
Quitting my job to build products: the beginning of my indie founder journey