Oh Dear (PHP Gent) - Speaker Deck

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A tour behind the scenes of Oh Dear!

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How to start and grow your side project

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Freek Van der Herten Partner & developer at Spatie @freekmurze Blogging at https://murze.be    Side project: https://ohdear.app About me

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About this talk This is not a sales talk Product demo Why & how Code dive Q&A

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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?

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Oh Dear! What?

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Oh Dear! Launched February 2018 More than 120 million checks performed ± 200 paying customers ± 1 500 EUR monthly revenue What?

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Product demo

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Why and how

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Oh Dear! Other tools either: • do too much • confusing • ugly • expensive Why?

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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?

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Oh Dear! • No planning • No budget • No roadmap • No client Why?

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Oh Dear! Mailing list Discount codes Code snippets on Twitter Doing talks Blogging Pro-tip: provide value in your marketing Marketing

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Oh Dear! Marketing

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Oh Dear! Marketing

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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

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Code Dive

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Documentation https://ohdear.app/docs

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PHP SDK https://github.com/ohdearapp/ohdear-php-sdk

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Laravel webhooks integration https://github.com/ohdearapp/laravel-ohdear-webhooks

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Laravel Nova Tool https://github.com/ohdearapp/nova-ohdear-tool

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Future plans No new checks Bring documentation to the next level Crawlers running on satellite servers

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Try it out! Free trial for 10 days https://ohdear.app/register

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https://speakerdeck.com/freekmurze/ohdear-php-gent https://twitter.com/i/moments/949273295635079168 https://ohdear.app @freekmurze Thank you

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Q&A