Bilal | Fileboost.dev

Fileboost - Supercharge Your Rails Images Offload image processing from your Rails servers to a global edge network. Reduce CPU load, accelerate delivery, and maintain full Active Storage compatibility.

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⚡ Fileboost is now open for everyone –– Delegate your Rails app images delivery to us and improve performance.

🙏 Thank you for all the early adopters for taking the time to provide valuable feedback. It helped me tremendously in ironing out the bugs and improve image deliverability.

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🎉Onboarded first customer for Fileboost and received a lot of feedback along the way.

They were able to get the setup done in less than 10 minutes. Can't wait to get Fileboost in the hands of more customers.

To keep things fair and simple for the early customers.
I'm keeping ⚡Fileboost to be "upgrade at your own pace" model and putting my trust in the users.

⚡Fileboost is open for business!

Invitation sent to the first batch of folks who registered for early access ✅

If you have registered for early access then do check your inboxes (& spam b'coz the domain is new 🙈)

🎉 I’m excited to share what I’ve been working on: Fileboost - a Ruby on Rails plugin that delivers images without making your servers sweat.

When I was scaling Rails apps, I ran into a bottleneck I hadn’t expected: Active Storage.

🧵 more details...

Fileboost.dev Early Access Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.

I’m opening early access next week. If you’ve felt the same Active Storage pain, I’d love for you to try Fileboost

early access → fileboost.dev

There’s no complicated setup, just play & play. Fileboost is a simple gem that works almost exactly like Rails’ image_tag. The goal is to make it a true drop-in replacement, with an opt-in patch so you don’t even have to change your code.

The outcome: faster image delivery for users, powerful image transformations, and reduced strain on your infrastructure.

That experience stuck with me - and now I’m channeling it into Fileboost.

⚡ Fileboost is an Active Storage compatible gem that takes over the image-serving layer by handling transformations, picking the best format, and caching everything at the edge without hammering your app servers.

The result? Servers tied up, response times slowed down, and infrastructure costs creeping higher. On top of that, there’s no simple way to serve optimal formats like WebP or AVIF to end users on the fly.

Every image variant was being generated on demand. That meant users were waiting while servers were busy handling image transformations 😓. And even after the heavy lifting was done, Active Storage still needed a database lookup for every single request just to serve the final URL.

🎉 I’m excited to share what I’ve been working on: Fileboost - a Ruby on Rails plugin that delivers images without making your servers sweat.

When I was scaling Rails apps, I ran into a bottleneck I hadn’t expected: Active Storage.

🧵 more details...

I’m gonna switch gears and now gonna work on some marketing side of things to prepare for the announcement.

Alright, I got the following things in working state:

✅ High performance API
✅ Ruby on Rails gem
✅ Functional customer facing app
✅ Basic usage analytics
✅ Sign in via Github

I believe this should be enough to launch as MVP.

I’m gonna switch gears and now gonna work on some marketing side of things to prepare for the announcement.

Alright, I got the following things in working state:

✅ High performance API
✅ Ruby on Rails gem
✅ Functional customer facing app
✅ Basic usage analytics
✅ Sign in via Github

I believe this should be enough to launch as MVP.

Claude is really good at over-engineering.

Already loving what he is being working on. Instant follow!

I'm working on a small SaaS after a very long time. It is based on my learnings of scaling Ruby on Rails apps so far.

I believe this would help in improving end user experience & could bring down infra cost.

Gonna share more about the product in coming days... Stay tuned 👀

AGENTS.md AGENTS.md is a simple, open format for guiding coding agents. Think of it as a README for agents.

Here is the unfinished list of things I have check out:
- Nano Banana
- Codex
- GPT 5
- AI Agents w/ Claude Code
- Whatever @ryancarson shared in the last month
- AgentOS by @CasJam
- Agents.md

Did I miss something that’s worth looking into?

Alright, Resuming work on Monday after a short break.

I haven’t been keeping up with AI as much as I should have in the last couple of months. I’m gonna take next week dive into few of the topics that I came across.

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Buy one time lifetime license → logspect.app

p.s: if you have already bought a license, you will receive this update in a couple of days

Logspect v0.2 is almost ready to be shipped 🚀

✅ Support for App, Web & Sidekiq logs
✅ UI/UX inspired from browser dev console
✅ Recent projects on Splash screen
✅ Improved log parsing
✅ Better Search experience

get early access 👇 (link in reply)

Sent. Let me know if you received it.

Hey Stefan, I see your name in the email list.

Can you check your spam folder? I guess the domain is new hence deliverability might be not the best. Apologies for the inconvenience.

Lmk if it's not there, I will resend.

I'd be happy to pay for an AI tool that can understand my business use case and generate seed data for dev environment 🙏

A big chunk of my time is spent on getting the data right to test features

get your early access → logspect.app

📦 Released v0.1 and sent first set of invites to folks who registered for early access (check your emails)

Now that packaging, distribution & auto-update are set I'm gonna focus in shipping features 🚀

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To pre-order ➡️

polar.sh/checkout/pol...