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Freek Van der Herten
September 17, 2018
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Ohdear (PHP Limburg)
A tour behing the scenes of Oh Dear!
Freek Van der Herten
September 17, 2018
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Transcript
A tour behind the scenes of Oh Dear!
How to start and grow your side project
Freek Van der Herten Partner & developer at Spatie @freekmurze
Blogging at https://murze.be Side project: https://ohdear.app About me
About this talk This is not a sales talk Product
demo Why & how Code dive Q&A
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?
Oh Dear! What?
Oh Dear! Launched February 2018 More than 80 million checks
performed ± 200 paying customers ± 1 500 EUR monthly revenue What?
Product demo
Why and how
Oh Dear! Other tools either: • do too much •
confusing • ugly • expensive Why?
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?
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
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
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
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
Oh Dear! Mailing list Discount codes Code snippets on Twitter
Doing talks Pro-tip: provide value in your marketing Marketing
Oh Dear! Marketing
Oh Dear! Marketing
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
Code Dive
Documentation https://ohdearapp.com/docs
PHP SDK https://github.com/ohdearapp/ohdear-php-sdk
Laravel webhooks integration https://github.com/ohdearapp/laravel-ohdear-webhooks
Future plans No new checks Nova tool Bring documentation to
the next level Crawlers running on satellite servers
Try it out! Free trial for 10 days https://ohdear.app/register
Thank you https://speakerdeck.com/freekmurze/ohdear-php-limburg https://twitter.com/i/moments/949273295635079168 https://joind.in/talk/c4bfd https://ohdearapp.com @freekmurze
Q&A