Rukshan's Blog

Startups

Your ego can kill your idea before anything else

You’re a creator, you have been working on your idea for few months. The MVP is ready, it’s time to launch your product. You tell about it on ProductHunt, HackerNews, Reddit, Facebook etc. Not everyone who sees your product on…

Rukshan
March 21, 2021

Startups

First launch review – YaluKids

I wanted to write something like this for a while, to look at a launch and dissect it and do a SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats). Recently I saw a launch of a new service, a social network…

Rukshan
March 20, 2021

The impossible task of blocking disposable email signups

When a user signs up for a service most of the time they have to share their email address. When a potential user shares an email address with a service during signup, within that sharing there is benefit for both…

Rukshan
March 14, 2021

Weekly update: What I’m built for Tuti this week

I haven’t been very active on my blog recently, but when I initially started the blog I wanted to post at least one post per week. So I guess I’m still following my new year resolution on writing at least…

Rukshan
March 6, 2021

Using your browser’s developer tools to finding vulnerabilities

The breakthrough Again looking at the javascript code, just as what they did with the merchant dashboard, I saw that they are checking the authentication from the frontend using javascript. They store a local storage object with name, id, and…

Rukshan
March 3, 2021

Startups

How Uber lost to PickMe in Sri Lanka

Uber is one of the leaders in ride-sharing in the US and in Europe. However, they are having troubles in expanding to Asian continent. For example Ubers expansion to China failed, and Uber in China was acquired by DiDi. In…

Rukshan
March 2, 2021

Randoms

I do development for one week and marketing and documentation for one week

I know the advice is to find a co-founder. But what if you can’t find a co-founder? Yes, having a co-founder is great. But there are companies that are founded by solo-founders who went on to become billion or million…

Rukshan
February 26, 2021

Facebook is combining Messenger and Instagram messaging

Today I received this popup notifying me that soon people using Instagram will be able to find and message me on Facebook. It appears that your Messenger inbox will be a universal inbox where you can reply to both instagram…

Rukshan
February 24, 2021

Javascript, Tutorials

How to host your NuxtJS in 10 steps

I first started using NuxtJS one year ago, when I tried to make a platform for travellers to easily find and book villas online. But unlike other popular booking services, I was targeting villas that did not have an online…

Rukshan
February 23, 2021

Randoms

Don’t allow VSCode to auto fetch from repos

Recently I had a very annoying experience using VSCode. I use git to track changes of my work, and I push important changes to my GitHub repo. During the past 1 month I was hacking a small side project during…

Rukshan
February 21, 2021