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ashokvarma2

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ashokvarma2··on Ask HN: How to Sell a Side Project?
You can try https://1kprojects.com/
ashokvarma2··on Ask HN: What do you use for PDF reports these days?
We use shrimp(https://github.com/adjust/shrimp) which internally uses phantomjs. It works well but you will need to do the page break yourself which can become a pain.
ashokvarma2··on Wingify Launches A New A/B Testing Platform For People Without Coding Experience
Congrats Paras
ashokvarma2··on Ask HN: Do you run a SAAS app?
I run a Saas app called ReportGarden(http://reportgarden.com). It is currently my primary focus.

Our stack includes Rails+Postgresql+Delayed jobs+Pusher

ashokvarma2··on What are you building over the holidays?
I'm working on a highly requested feature at http://reportgarden.com for templates and automatic reports
ashokvarma2··on Tell HN: The CSS that Makes Medium.com Load Really Slowly
Is there a tool that I can use to determine such bottlenecks on my website?
ashokvarma2··on Help me collect the best A/B testing tools
Visual Website Optimizer
ashokvarma2··on Ask HN: Is PDF generation a real pain for developers?
Oh man, if you can solve it for me, I will be eternally grateful. You can email me at ashok (at) reportgarden (dot) com
ashokvarma2··on Ask HN: Is PDF generation a real pain for developers?
I disagree, If we are dealing with simple invoices and stuff. Once you start dealing with reports containing charts, it all goes haywire
ashokvarma2··on Ask HN: Is PDF generation a real pain for developers?
PrinceXML doesn't support a lot of the Html5 and CSS3. Canvas support doesnt exist, so I cant print charts.
ashokvarma2··on Ask HN: Is PDF generation a real pain for developers?
Its a terribly painful. I have tried every single one of the options. I am still finding it extremely difficult to get it working. Once I managed to get it to print to pdf, then started the bigger problem 'Paging'.

Paging is quite painful. I am writing my own code to split tables to fit into pages.

If you can solve this problem. I would gladly pay.

ashokvarma2··on TLDR: Submerged continent found in the Indian ocean
We need more of these tl;dr, circa(http://cir.ca/) style news content
ashokvarma2··on Ruby 2.0.0 Released
Is ruby 2.x faster than 1.9.x. Any benchmarking data?
ashokvarma2··on Next Time Your Mom Says Don't Go Out in The Rain, Spray Yourself With This
I guess this is what it might have felt like when people first saw plastics.