Hey all, for the last few evenings I (but moreso Claude) have been working on an iOS game called Berroku.
It's a delightfully simple, yet addictive puzzle game. Sudoku Minesweeper. I've long wanted to turn this into an app with achievements, leaderboards, offline play and more.
Yesterday we released the next generation of Laravel Forge. This is the biggest update we’ve made since we originally launched back in 2014. The web has changed a lot since then, and so have our expectations of what a server management platform should offer. That’s why we added a whole bunch of new features including:
- Instant Laravel VPS servers
- Zero downtime deployments
- Free on-forge domains
- Health checks, Heartbeats, & real-time metrics
- First-party Nuxt.js and Next.js support
Aside from being created within 10 seconds, our new Laravel VPS servers - backed by our partnership with DigitalOcean - also offers a cool new feature: Team terminal sessions. You can open an SSH session straight to your server within Forge and also pair with your teammates!
I've never used Tableau, but heard a lot of hate about it. However, in my previous role, we were big fans of Metabase (https://metabase.com). You can also self-host it, which was a huge win for us.
Yes, you should absolutely not be using Google Analytics. They don't need more data, your users don't want to see cookie banners and most of you really don't need 99% of the data that you can filter through...
I can't recommend Fathom (https://usefathom.com) enough. They have a huge focus on privacy-first tracking. You don't need to show a cookie banner and you can still track events etc.
I'm James, aka @jbrooksuk. For over a year I've been working on Checkmango, a full stack A/B testing platform.
I started working on it after I left my old role at an online travel agency. We wanted to do A/B testing, but any meaningful platform was costing several £k a month.
Checkmango is my attempt to fill a gap in the market of small — medium sized businesses that want to do A/B testing.
Everything is API based and you can check out the API docs at https://developers.checkmango.com (thanks to Bump.sh for hosting the OpenAPI spec).
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