Maria Zacharia

Building a software company and thinking out loud while doing it.
AI principal engineer • NIT Calicut
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[Maria Zacharia @buildwithmaria]

That's the principle we're building around: the model interprets intent, the platform owns the rules. Checkout, payments and stock stay in code we trust, and agents work through defined operations on top.
Full write-up: https://t.co/NQJO4fAldc

[Maria Zacharia @buildwithmaria]

AI has changed Haulistic in two places: how we build it, and how merchants run their stores through it.

We ship features much faster now, and merchants can change their store just by asking.

[Maria Zacharia @buildwithmaria]

On the merchant side, Haulistic exposes an MCP server. "Set medium to 8 in stock" becomes tool calls: the agent resolves the variant, prepares a change pinned to the record's version, and execute_change applies it only if that version still matches. Retries are idempotent.

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Spent my Saturday evening rebuilding the entire Haulistic dashboard with Codex.
~3 hours of focused work:
271 files changed (70 new)
+25,942 / −15,443 lines

[Kiran Mathew Koshy @kiranmathew_k]

Excited to announce our company coming out of stealth mode - We are working on humanoid robots that are affordable (4,000$) for the world, designed and made in India. This is the result of the last 3 months of our hard work. There's a lot of work remaining but we are excited for the future.

[Maria Zacharia @buildwithmaria]

Just got back to the old habit of writing. Here's an article on how to design a Serverless Chat Application on AWS.

https://t.co/40t8aYANak

More exciting stuff is on the way! Please have a look and raise questions/ feedback.

[Maria Zacharia @buildwithmaria]

3/n
In this blog, I have detailed how we successfully implemented the master plan of using @cloudfront and @awslambda at edge for the same. Quite an uncommon approach, but definitely something worth sharing.
Do take a look!

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New blog post up on Medium!

https://t.co/IlKGGmbPko

#cloudfront #lambda #SEO #dynamodb #Serverless

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2/n
One of the key steps towards SEO is to inject proper meta tags for both static and dynamic routes. Even though there are many ways to accomplish this, we were looking for a solution that was simple but highly performant.

[Maria Zacharia @buildwithmaria]

@BeABetterDevv 1. Testing the function
2. Structuring the code

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https://t.co/oWTinQZOyy

[Maria Zacharia @buildwithmaria]

Finished reading this wonderful book today -

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by @JamesClear

Took me a long time but really worth it. There is so much in this book such that a one-time read is just not enough.
Link to the book⬇️

[Maria Zacharia @buildwithmaria]

Focus Music: https://t.co/11luTWeBBj
Pomodoro Principle: https://t.co/RkY6v2tLdW
Guided Meditation by @yogawithadriene

[Maria Zacharia @buildwithmaria]

Things I do for productivity:

1. Meditation in the morning
2. Listen to Focus Music while working
3. Follow Pomodoro Principle
4. Maintaining an Accomplishment List

Links to good resources ⬇️

[Jeevan Thomas Koshy @jeevan_tk]

The first organic consultation on @hiretheauthor received a perfect 5⭐️ rating. Looking forward to making thousands of such meaningful connections.

[Jeevan Thomas Koshy @jeevan_tk]

Quite late into #buildinpublic, but wanted to give some latest updates with @hiretheauthor going forward. Today we crossed a major milestone of 100 signups on the platform. The startup journey has been much tougher than I expected but was totally worth the experience so far.

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

"I don't think I will be able to see you again. Sorry. Please raise our children well."
On International Nurses Day, remembering 28 year old Lini Puthussery, who wrote this to her husband while she was critically ill from the Nipah virus she caught while trying to save a family.

[Maria Zacharia @buildwithmaria]

@shaukivillar @jamie_maguire1 @catalinmpit If you have good content online, would love to see you give Hire the author a shot!

https://t.co/LLnZPRo7QX