Madhukar s blog
Sometimes I feel like I am not using AI efficiently or I feel like I lack skills to use AI the way others are claiming to use AI on Twitter. There are countless such comments and I don t think they are particularly wrong or are lying. However, I am definitely finding it hard to let...
I was building a feature that extracts valence-aware codes from open-ended responses, once the feature was built and was working beautifully, I deployed it. The feature was immediately used by a user but she hit a problem. Turns out, she wanted to regenerate the codes and wanted to delete the previously extracted codes, stored on...
I m in a prospect call with a colleague, talking to a prospect we haven t spoken to in about 2 years. Last time, this person chose our competitor s software but graciously gave us feedback on our software and sales process, explaining why they chose the competitor. Fast-forward to today: they re talking to us again. During the...
I have used various data collection tools to collect data over many years. Having had the opportunity to work with organizations that heavily rely on survey tools to collect data, I had the rare chance to witness the good, the bad, and the ugly sides of these tools. If you ve used these tools long enough,...
I started using AWS SES to allow my open-source application https://appsare.com to send email notifications. I enabled SES on my account. Configured my domain appsare.com with necessary settings. Basically these 4 need to be enabled (of course you can skip the send test email step) After you have: You then create credentials so your application...
I decided to vibe code a feature I am building for my open-source uptime monitoring app : https://appsare.com So, since it s an uptime monitoring tool, I wanted to give users the opportunity to turn on and off where they receive notifications of their websites being down. For example, they could choose turn off Basecamp and...
I have come to a conclusion after pandering with many different thoughts and ideas that making more money than you spend is the only way to do good business and a majority of us will benefit a lot with this thought process. I also feel that this is an ideology and it reflects in the...
Have been using AI for a couple of my projects actively. Right now I use just vscode with Github copilot. Here is how I am using it It really works like magic. Gives me a solid start and mostly the code is functional. I still need to go over it and tweak it a bit...
I have been tinkering with an app idea for some time now and I think its coming along really well. One of the main functionalities in the web application is checking some web services every 30 seconds to see if they are up. Obviously, this is CPU intensive. I have absolutely loved Laravel ever since...
Have been using AI since the early days of Open AI and it has been nothing short of amazing. I use it actively for web application development and on numerous occasions it has unblocked me and helped me progress. At times, to debug something and at other times to tell me an approach to solve...