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Monterail Blog
Company blog · monterail.com/blogprogrammingbusiness
Monterail Blog is the company blog at monterail.com, writing about programming and business. Since 2016, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 57 times, most often “State of Vue.js Report 2025”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-29, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Company blog whose posts are linked for a Raspberry Pi-powered office, examples of progressive web apps, and a list of famous companies using Elixir.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Since 2010, Monterail has designed and built web, mobile, and AI products for 400+ clients worldwide — from first prototype to systems used by thousands every day.
Most-linked posts?
- State of Vue.js Report 20252 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-03-27
- Why we love, use, and support Vue.js2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-06-21
- Nine Raspberry Pis powering an office (2016)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-25
What Hacker News says?
The technical detail blog post has a bit more information. At first I was wondering why they decided to go with an RPi instead of a few enterprise servers, and it looks like they're utilizing the GPIO interfaces to interact with relays to power some of it. https://www.monterail.com/blog/2016/smart-office-raspberry-p...
Comment linking /blog/2016/smart-office-raspberry-pi
on “Nine Raspberry Pis powering an office (2016)”Submitted Nine Raspberry Pis powering an office (2016) as a story · 276 points
HN discussionMy most useful PWAs are local websites. City transport, government websites etc. These sites never make their own native app because they cannot afford to maintain those apps. Websites and PWAs are great and cheap compared to apps. But it is not hard to google? https://www.monterail.com/blog/pwa-examples
Comment linking /blog/pwa-examples
on “WebKit Features in Safari 16.4”Submitted Thunderbird Starts Working on Improving Its Interface as a story · 226 points
HN discussionhttps://www.monterail.com/blog/famous-companies-using-elixir
Comment linking /blog/famous-companies-using-elixir
on “Any companies using Erlang or Elixir?”Submitted How we built a Smart Office system based on Raspberry Pi as a story · 200 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why did we redesign Thunderbird? as a story · 36 points
HN discussionSubmitted JavaScript Libraries for Data Visualization to Use in 2019 as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted State of Vue.js Report [80 pages, case studies, survey results, future of Vue] as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted We Learned Elixir–Our Story and Tutorial for Beginners as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted 6 Reasons Why Node.js Has Become a Standard Technology for Big Organizations as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why we love, use, and support Vue.js as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted IoT Prototype in 15 minutes as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted State of Vue.js Report 2025 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Introduction to Rails Event Store as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Event Storming will improve your business processes as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Updated State of Vue.js Report 2019 Is Finally Here as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Best Communication Practices We Use to Keep Our Clients Happy (And in the Loop) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Reasons Why Vue.js Is Getting More Traction Every Month as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted 20 Most Popular Vue.js Newsletter Articles in 2018 as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Discovery Workshops: How We Ensure Alignment Between Your Vision and a Product as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Brief Summary of the Vue.js Core Team Sprint and Their Visit at Monterail as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Make Your PWA Work Offline Part1: Static Files as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Long Term Support for AngularJS: Viable Alternatives for Your Product as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Developing a Skill for Amazon’s Alexa as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted SOLID Principles Printable Cheatsheet as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Did I Learn After Going Eighteen Months Without Rails as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why We Love, Use, and Support Vue.js as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simple guide to authoring open-source Vue.js components as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted State of Vue.js 2025: A Decade of Growth and Innovation as a story · 1 points
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