Madhukar Prabhakara

@benjamincrozat Rooting for you man!

@madprabh You're right and I'll have to try that next time. 🙏

I have no idea how people manage to close B2B customers. Despite demand and clear desire for my solution, here's what happens: - Call goes great - I send an email with a clear reminder of my value proposition with numbers - "We're reviewing other options and we'll get back to you." or "Let me discuss this with other executives." - I try to follow up - Ghosting Am I cursed to be a freelancer until the dawn of time? Don't get me wrong, I meet great people, work on interesting projects, I actually learn even more about business. But I'm frustrated nonetheless. Anybody have any tips? @arvidkahl maybe?

Almost 300 downloads in just 2 days! Thanks a lot everyone for the support. @khnfrhn for designing the cover and writing its intro! @shl What a platform you've created. Upload -> publish and 300.... #impactmeasurement #Outcome #AI madhukarsp.gumroad.com/l/immbook

@khnfrhn Thanks @khnfrhn for the fantastic design on the book cover! I simply wasn't capable of doing it even with AI lol

I didn’t expect an impact measurement guide to be this practical. It reads like sitting next to a patient mentor who shows you exactly how to use AI, real data, and simple prompts to finally make sense of your programs and portfolios, follow @madprabh for updates on this.

I've spent years working with organizations on impact measurement at Sopact , and I kept seeing the same struggle: the process was too technical, too time-consuming, and left valuable data unused. AI has genuinely changed what's possible here. What used to take months now takes minutes. Complex analysis that required specialists is now accessible to anyone. So I put together a practical guide showing how to: - Use AI to build Theory of Change models - Analyze mixed data (surveys, interviews, documents) together - Create insights and reports quickly - Work with portfolio data for funds and accelerators It's hands-on, not theoretical – with real examples and prompts you can use. If you're working in impact measurement and want to explore how AI might help, I hope you'll find it useful. You can download the book for free: madhukarsp.gumroad.com/l/immbook #ImpactMeasurement #SocialImpact #AI #Impact #nonprofit

@brankopetric00 Goodness!! this is our exact story. Now we are back to simple docker based deployment and our bill is down from $4500 to $450.

Kubernetes migration almost killed our startup. Where we were: - 8 EC2 instances - Ansible for deploys - Boring but working - $1200/month AWS bill Why we migrated: - New investor wanted 'cloud-native' - Engineers wanted K8s experience - Competitors were using it - Seemed like the future 6 months later: - 3 engineers spending full-time on K8s - AWS bill at $4500/month - Deploys took longer than before - More outages, not fewer - Product development stalled We rolled back: - Moved to ECS Fargate - 2 week migration - Back to $1800/month - Engineers back on features K8s is amazing for scale. We weren't at scale. Technology should solve problems you actually have.

@ajlewis90 @amasad Just use hetzner VPS. You can do all of this + more for $8/month.

Hey @amasad - so currently I am running a couple of Django test workloads with a SQL postgres database backend on AWS. I am currently subscribed to the $25 per month plan on Replit. And since AWS no longer comes with free tier, this is getting too much for my pockets at the moment. So does Replit's $25 come with possibility to deploy these workloads on a live environment and connect them to my SSL which is again an AWS certificate ? What plans and discounts do you offer?

Many are asking if they can move their Next.js projects from Vercel to Replit? Yes! - Go to Import then GitHub - enter repo URL - Agent will take care of the rest It will set up the dev and deployment environments! For companies moving lots of work, happy to help + discount.

Just use plain language to turn data into insights, insights into a powerful story and powerful story into a designer quality report. In minutes. Instantly shareable. Always updating! Short demo: youtube.com/watch?v=u6Wdy2…

@dhh Just bought it couple days ago.. can I get a refund 😜

Campfire is now free! An entire chat system to run on your own server. We are running the official #RailsWorld conference chat on it from a mini PC in my literal closet 😄 github.com/basecamp/once-…

I often get asked: “I've collected data on sopact.com - how do I find correlations between two survey questions?” Introducing 'Intelligent Columns', an AI agent designed to find correlations. To see it in action, watch our short demo: youtu.be/B8MTLuhpdJk.

@confusedqubit @gregmushen Most don’t reach that scale. So servers will do just fine in my opinion. Hetzner is pretty cost effective, we moved everything from AWS to Hetzner.

@gregmushen The issue is purely around uptime. Servers fail more often than anyone would like, especially at scale. Whether it’s the disk, the network, power, GPUs, or doesn’t matter. Amazon gets away with charging what they do because uptime and reliability is king.

To give you an idea of how expensive cloud has gotten, I picked up a server off FB marketplace today for $500. 128Gb of RAM and a 1Tb SSD. It will cost about $6/month in electricity to run it. An equivalent server in AWS would cost $950/mo. so I'll have payback in two weeks. I'm going to buy a GPU for $600, and the cost of that in AWS would be about $350/mo. I think if someone created a distributed garage hosting network it would kill it.

@svpino The cost is not 0 in my opinion. Tailwind is still so much easier to understand and to modify. With pure css even if ai write 100% of it, making the small changes is a pain in the butt.

With AI, the cost of writing CSS—instead of using something like Tailwind—is now zero. What's the steelman case for Tailwind going forward?

@levelsio You get better wash quality in side loaded washing machines.

Side loaded washing machines make absolute no sense to me It's the only ones we have in Europe Why would you want to crawl down everytime to put your laundry in when you can stand and put it in top-down?

@forgebitz Thought I was the only one thinking this way. It definitely speeds things up but the other day I asked it to do something and it ended up writing a query with N+1 query problem. I corrected it manually.

wtf are people doing with LLMs that they can oneshot entire apps i love coding with AI, but as soon as you do something remotely complex, the entire thing falls apart are people just building landing page or something

@dhh Sometime last year I saw DHH post about HETZNER. I checked them out, migrated out of AWS and this is the result: forever grateful to you @dhh

$5,000/day. That's how much we'll have to spend on S3, if we don't make our departure date on June 30 (when the 4-year commit contract expires). Nothing like a large, clarifying number to motivate the deadline!

@karpathy Laravel is your answer. Pair it with Golang for CPU intensive operations and you are all set!

The reality of building web apps in 2025 is that it's a bit like assembling IKEA furniture. There's no "full-stack" product with batteries included, you have to piece together and configure many individual services: - frontend / backend (e.g. React, Next.js, APIs) - hosting (cdn, https, domains, autoscaling) - database - authentication (custom, social logins) - blob storage (file uploads, urls, cdn-backed) - email - payments - background jobs - analytics - monitoring - dev tools (CI/CD, staging) - secrets - ... I'm relatively new to modern web dev and find the above a bit overwhelming, e.g. I'm embarrassed to share it took me ~3 hours the other day to create and configure a supabase with a vercel app and resolve a few errors. The second you stray just slightly from the "getting started" tutorial in the docs you're suddenly in the wilderness. It's not even code, it's... configurations, plumbing, orchestration, workflows, best practices. A lot of glory will go to whoever figures out how to make it accessible and "just work" out of the box, for both humans and, increasingly and especially, AIs.

@JackEllis I have a $60 Mr. Coffee espresso Machine and it just works. Just try it out 😊

Update: Tried the Breville Barista that was recommended by someone. Wasted two hours trying to dial the espresso in. Tasted awful no matter what I did. Back to super automatic, too much wasted time, and there’s no way want to do this manual stuff daily 😂

I’m in the market for a new espresso machine. I drink latte and my wife drinks Americano. We’ve had a Delonghi Magnifica Evo for years and it’s really not good. What machine should I get that delivers amazing shots?

A critical quality an organization should have to successfully implement Impact measurement and management process: A learning mindset, not a proving mindset

@snapey done @snapey

If you manage a team, I would really appreciate you taking just a few minutes to complete the attached survey. If you don't manage a team, perhaps you could re-share this post. #teamwork #mood #teamculture lnkd.in/dhMiy99