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Company blog · prograils.com/posts · on HN as mlitwiniukprogrammingweb

Prograils.com is the company blog at prograils.com, writing about programming and web. Since 2014, 11 different Hacker News readers have linked it 29 times, most often “Top famous websites built with Ruby on Rails”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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29mentions?
11HN people?
2014–2024first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 10 in 2015

Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?

Why HN links it

HN commenters link this blog's posts about Elixir and Phoenix, such as a LiveView case study on Spotify and a post on companies using Elixir. The links are cited as sources; the comments do not judge the writing.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

Prograils is a founder-led product company from Poznań, Poland. We build AuditBadger, Beskar, PaintHoarder and Draftlight.

The author on HN?

mlitwiniuk · 296 karma · member since 2011

Making compliance survivable for small teams at humadroid.io. Used our own platform to get SOC 2 - because dogfooding is the ultimate viability test. Past life: built Prograils.com, sold it to Jobandtalent, did the corporate thing for a bit.

From their public HN profile, which links to this site.

Most-linked posts?

  1. Top famous websites built with Ruby on Rails
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-04-09
  2. Free Tutorial: Create Your Own SaaS in Rails Application. Part 1. By ProgRails
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-05-13
  3. WHY DISCORD, PINTEREST, MOZ AND BLEACHER REPORT USE ELIXIR. CASE STUDIES
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2018-12-07

What Hacker News says?

  1. They do? They should actually talk about it on their tech blog ( https://medium.com/@Pinterest_Engineering ). I couldn't find it other then third party post talking about them using it ( https://prograils.com/posts/why-discord-pinterest-moz-bleach... ). Even their github https://github.com/pinterest , elixir isn't even in their top programming languages. It could be the secret sauce language kind of deal. Or they've…

    Comment linking /posts/why-discord-pinterest-moz-bleacher-report-use-elixir-case-studies

    on “WeWork IPO Shows It's the Most Magical Unicorn”
  2. Submitted Show HN: Creating SaaS app in Rails – step by step tutorial, part 1 as a story · 8 points

    HN discussion
  3. https://prograils.com/elixir-phoenix-liveview-spotify

    Comment linking /elixir-phoenix-liveview-spotify

    on “Fault tolerance and resilience patterns for Go”
  4. Submitted Ruby vs. Elixir Is Like Comparing Apples and Oranges as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  5. (shameless self promotion) we've just released something similar, but for Ruby on Rails - https://prograils.com/courses/saas/ch/01-the-welcome-word - our plan is to make step-by-step tutorial on creating quite complex todo-like saas app.

    Comment linking /courses/saas/ch/01-the-welcome-word

    on “Django 1.8 and Python 3: Complex app tutorial, end-to-end”
  6. Submitted WHY DISCORD, PINTEREST, MOZ AND BLEACHER REPORT USE ELIXIR. CASE STUDIES as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  7. We[1] are one of few software houses, that actually got it. And we're relatively small (30+ people on board). Certification is not easy and it's not cheap (don't anyone tell you it's otherwise), it's time consuming, but can be done in few weeks (we managed to get certified in 3 months). It's worth mentioning, that instead of covering whole company, you can cover only small department fitted in one room. Maybe not be…

    Comment linking /

    on “Ask HN: Is the ISO 27001 certification worth it?”
  8. Submitted Ruby 2.1.0 performance in Rails tests as a story · 4 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted Elixir/Phoenix uptime monitor: Router and controllers as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted Phoenix uptime monitor: Authorization and authentication as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  11. Submitted Show HN: Create fully-working SaaS application in Rails – course announcement as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  12. Submitted Getting Your Rails App Running on the SAP HANA Cloud Platform as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  13. Submitted It’s a rails world babe and it ain’t magic as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  14. Submitted There are things from your past you'll always be regretting. as a story · 3 points

    HN discussion
  15. Submitted Capistrano deploy to ubuntu with systemd, Nginx/puma and rbenv as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  16. Submitted Free Tutorial: Create Your Own SaaS in Rails Application. Part 1. By ProgRails as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  17. Submitted Top famous websites built with Ruby on Rails as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  18. Submitted And what exactly makes you to do the Open Source? as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  19. Submitted SAP Hana Rails App with SAP Authorization System as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  20. Submitted Video encoding processor for CarrierWave as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  21. Submitted Noiseless orchestra of the office sounds - on why noisy office is harmful as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  22. Submitted Sound us out: a few words on acoustic terror. as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  23. Submitted Phoenix vs. Rails: The Business Perspective as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  24. Submitted LIT internationalization gem – the new way of translating Rails apps as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  25. Submitted Active Storage on Rails 5.2: the new built-in feature for uploading files as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  26. Submitted Top famous websites built with Ruby on Rails as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  27. Submitted How to convert video files with carrierwave and streamio-ffmpeg gems as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  28. Submitted App for rewarding coworkers. Heroku deploy + case study based on Special Guests as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  29. Submitted Lit – Open Source Rails Internationalization web interface as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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