Oh Dear (PHP Gent)

1. A tour behind the scenes of Oh Dear!
2. How to start and grow your side project
3. Freek Van der Herten Partner & developer at Spatie @freekmurze Blogging at https://murze.be
 
 Side project: https://ohdear.app About me
4. About this talk This is not a sales talk Product demo Why & how Code dive Q&A
5. Oh Dear! Website monitoring SaaS https://ohdear.app Checks uptime, SSL certificates, mixed content, broken links Heavily customized Laravel Spark application Sideproject by Mattias Geniar and me What?
6. Oh Dear! What?
7. Oh Dear! Launched February 2018 More than 120 million checks performed ± 200 paying customers ± 1 500 EUR monthly revenue What?
8. Product demo
9. Why and how
10. Oh Dear! Other tools either: • do too much • confusing • ugly • expensive Why?
11. Oh Dear! Oh Dear! aims to be • beautiful, easy to use • no feature bloat • built with companies like Spatie in mind • easy price structure Pro-tip: build something for yourself Why?
12. Oh Dear! • No planning • No budget • No roadmap • No client Why?
13. Oh Dear! Competitors There are a lot of competitors out there Doesn't really matter Finding your audience Pro-tip: focus on what your audience finds important
14. Oh Dear! Already had a lot of things in the open source space First meetings in August of 2017 Started building September 2017 Pro-tip: start a mailing list Process
15. Oh Dear! First working version late November 2017 Tested with sites belonging to Spatie & Nucleus customers Invited some close friends Launched in beta February 2018 About 10% - 15% conversion from our mailing list Pro-tip: don't be afraid to launch Launch
16. Oh Dear! Dividing the workload Mattias: SSL knowledge + customer support Freek: coding Laravel Spark took care of the boring stuff Design: outsourced to Spatie Pro-tip: team up with someone Process
17. Oh Dear! Mailing list Discount codes Code snippets on Twitter Doing talks Blogging Pro-tip: provide value in your marketing Marketing
18. Oh Dear! Marketing
19. Oh Dear! Marketing
20. Oh Dear! Main web server at Nucleus Uptime sattelites: DO and Vultr servers Sentry Gmail GitLab Pro-tip: use services you know and love Services used
21. Code Dive
22. Documentation https://ohdear.app/docs
23. PHP SDK https://github.com/ohdearapp/ohdear-php-sdk
24. Laravel webhooks integration https://github.com/ohdearapp/laravel-ohdear-webhooks
25. Laravel Nova Tool https://github.com/ohdearapp/nova-ohdear-tool
26. Future plans No new checks Bring documentation to the next level Crawlers running on satellite servers
27. Try it out! Free trial for 10 days https://ohdear.app/register
28. https://speakerdeck.com/freekmurze/ohdear-php-gent https://twitter.com/i/moments/949273295635079168 https://ohdear.app @freekmurze Thank you
29. Q&A