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Re:Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Nov 2025) on Monday November 10, 2025 @08:27AM (#45875790)
Working on Strot - an AI agent that reverse-engineers website APIs for scraping.

Instead of DOM scraping, it intercepts AJAX calls and figures out which API endpoint gives you the data you need. Uses visual analysis + fuzzy matching to identify the right call.

The use case: scraping product reviews, paginated listing data (products), etc. Existing AI scrapers either didn't work or were very slow and costly. A product with 1000 reviews takes 10+ minutes with Playwright, costs $10 with LLM scrapers. With Strot? 10 seconds via direct API calls.

Being used in production by a couple of clients. Would love feedback!

Blog: https://blog.vertexcover.io/strot-is-a-api-scraper GitHub: https://github.com/vertexcover-io/strot

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024) on Thursday July 04, 2024 @06:24AM (#40873779)
I actually enjoy refactoring messy code ->and have worked and improved multiple code bases in my time. However, I don't like recording videos. Any other alternative to apply.
Re:Show HN: Revideo – Create Videos with Code on Tuesday June 11, 2024 @09:08PM (#40653433)
I built a large remotion powered video generation pipeline for a major AI video company and one of the major challenges was cost of generating a video. 1 instance of Remotion at best generates 1-2 fullhd frame per second on server and that turns out to be quite expensive for slightly larger videos. From my benchmarking, taking screenshots was the slowest part of their pipeline. Any sense on how many frames revideo can generate. Since you could do canvas.toBlob, I am wondering if it's faster.
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (March 2024) on Tuesday March 05, 2024 @02:12AM (#39600284)
SEEKING WORK | Location: India (experience working with clients in US/Europe/Australia) Remote: Yes

Recent Clients: Rephrase.ai(acquired by Adobe), Xapo, DubDub.ai, Dhiwise, Dunzo, Invideo etc

About Us: Small software studio helping funded startups in solving their complex business needs - whether that involves transforming legacy systems, mastering video rendering and streaming, or scaling sophisticated AI applications

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Contact at: hello [at] vertexcover.io

Website: https://vertexcover.io

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Focus Areas: LLM / MLOPS/ Video Engineering/ SaaS Applications /Performance Engineering

Languages: Python/Golang/Rust/Typescript/Javascript/LLM/React/Remix/OCaml

Databases: Redis/Postgres/MySQL/Mongodb/BigQuery

Re:An app can be a home-cooked meal on Friday January 05, 2024 @10:38AM (#38880165)
Lovely article and loved the analogy of home cook to making an app. Being a professional programmer who loves programming, I never thought about programming like this. But there is a catch here, I would wager that trying cooking at home is far easier and accessible as compared to making simplest of apps. Most of the no code low-code tools are focused on helping companies make software for their use and not focused on individuals making apps for themselves.
Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (December 2023) on Monday December 04, 2023 @07:10AM (#38516292)
SEEKING WORK | Location: India (experience working with clients in US/Europe/Australia)

Remote: Yes

Recent Clients: Rephrase.ai(acquired by Adobe), Xapo, DubDub.ai, Dhiwise, Dunzo, Invideo etc

About Us: Small software studio helping funded startups in solving their complex business needs - whether that involves transforming legacy systems, mastering video rendering and streaming, or scaling sophisticated AI applications

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Contact at: hello [at] vertexcover.io

Website: https://vertexcover.io

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Focus Areas: LLM / MLOPS/ Video Engineering/ SaaS Applications /Performance Engineering

Languages: Python/Golang/Rust/Typescript/Javascript/LLM/React/Remix/OCaml

Databases: Redis/Postgres/MySQL/Mongodb/BigQuery

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (June 2021) on Wednesday June 09, 2021 @01:17PM (#27450525)
SEEKING WORK | India | GMT + 05:30 | Remote

We are a premiere software studio based out of India. We specialize in delivering high-quality software systems to the complex engineering problems of our clients. We have a strong background in web and mobile application development and have worked with startups large & small, remote & on-site around the world. We are passionate about open source, small high quality teams and seeing the business impact of software.

Portfolio: https://vertexcover.io/case-studies Email: [email protected] Technologies: Golang, Python, Rust, Reasonml, React, Nodejs, Android, AWS, Terraform, Kotlin

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (June 2021) on Tuesday June 01, 2021 @10:40PM (#27364167)
Location: India

Remote: Yes

Technologies: Python, Golang, Typescript, Reasonml Kotlin, Android, WebAssembly, CI/CD, Ansible, Terraform

Personal Site: https://vertexcover.io/

Email: [email protected]

Background:

- 12+ Years of Professional Experience

- Full Stack Experience (Frontend, Backend, Devops, Android)

- Co-founded couple of funded startups, led engineering at Series A SaaS startup,

- Strong expertise in building developer tools - both from dev as well product perspective.

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2020) on Monday May 04, 2020 @06:56AM (#23066537)
Location: India

Remote: Yes

Looking to Relocate: No

Email: ritesh at vertexcover.io

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/riteshkadmawala

github: https://github.com/kgritesh

Website: https://vertexcover.dev/

- Full stack engineer with 10+ years of experience building products and solving challenging technical problems

- Cofounded couple of startups in the past and understand how to build products with quick turn around time without sacrificing quality

- Strong experience with Python/Golang/Javascript/Nodejs/React/Android/React Native/AWS/Terraform/Ansible/Kotlin/C++

- Experience with designing distributed fauly tolerant systems as well as building data pipelines

- 7+ years of experience working and leading distributed engineering teams

- Significant experience building and setting up automation and testing infrastructure for backend / mobile apps

Re:Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking freelancer? (May 2020) on Monday May 04, 2020 @05:41AM (#23066091)
SEEKING WORK | India | Remote Anywhere | Senior Full Stack Engineer / Engineering Leader/

Email: ritesh at vertexcover.io

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/riteshkadmawala

Website: https://vertexcover.dev/

- Full stack engineer with 10+ years of experience building products and solving challenging technical problems

- Cofounded couple of startups in the past and understand how to build products with quick turn around time without sacrificing quality

- Strong experience with Python/Golang/Javascript/Nodejs/React/Android/React Native/AWS/Terraform/Ansible/Kotlin/C++

- Experience with designing distributed fauly tolerant systems as well as building data pipelines

- 7+ years of experience working and leading distributed engineering teams

- Significant experience building and setting up automation and testing infrastructure for backend / mobile apps

Re:Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (April 2020) on Friday April 24, 2020 @11:40PM (#22975349)
Location: India Remote: Yes Willing to Relocate: No Technologies: Python, Golang, JS, React, Node, Android, Kotlin, Typescript, Ansible, Terraform, Docker Resume/CV: https://vertexcover.dev/static/resume-030f4767ed5ea7a3cb5829... Personal Site: https://vertexcover.dev/ Email: [email protected] Github: https://github.com/kgritesh

Hello I am Ritesh, a full stack engineer with 10+ years of experience as well as 7+ years of experience leading remote engineering teams. I have cofounded couple of startups in the past and have proven record of solving challenging technical problems and building great products.