With Picstome’s new simple CRM feature, you can manage customers more efficiently. The main reason to edit a customer is often to update the notes section with the latest information or to record important details. Editing notes should be quick and easy, without requiring you to fill out the entire customer edit form. Previously, you h...

Have you ever felt lost in a wall of “WIP” commits? I often do. Writing detailed messages can slow me down, but a cluttered history isn’t any better. What if AI could instantly generate clear and meaningful commit messages with just one command alias? Imagine commit messages like fix(auth): resolve invalid token bug during login. It's ...

As someone from Mexico aiming to build a global software brand, I quickly faced a common challenge: almost every desired .com domain was already taken. While many new domain extensions exist, .com remains the most trusted and memorable option. Instead of giving up, I got creative. I overcame the .com obstacle by adding prefixes and suf...

GitHub Copilot is one of the best investments I have made. I have access to premium models (with limited requests) and unlimited GPT-4.1, which is excellent. Unfortunately, I cannot use my subscription with other AI services or applications that offer AI capabilities, like Raycast. While Raycast's UI for asking anything to AI is fast w...

Now that Picstome is gaining traction, we are starting to receive new payments and renewal payments. However, we noticed that we aren't receiving any notifications from Stripe about these payments. We expected to receive notifications because we got one when we received our first payment. It turns out that, by default, receiving a noti...

I’ve revisited how the server provisioning flow works on Terrific Fuse and found ways to improve the experience. From naming servers and optimizing PHP and MySQL based on server memory, to sending notifications when provisioning completes, the process is now much smoother. Previously, to provision a server, you had to create it on your...

To manage your provisioned server, Fuse uses a flow where it generates a bash script for tasks like managing authorized SSH keys or handling deployments. Fuse uploads the script to your server and then runs it. All these uploaded scripts and their output logs are stored in the `.fuse` folder, either under the fuse `user` or the `root` ...

To run a command on a remote server with Fuse, I upload the script as a .sh file to the server. Then, I use SSH to execute a bash command and use `tee` in a pipeline to write the script output to a .log file. The command looks like this: bash /home/fuse/.fuse/task-1.sh 2>&1 | tee /home/fuse/.fuse/task-1.log However, I also wanted to ca...

Now that I’m feeling comfortable with the current Fuse API for creating and running tasks on remote servers, I have revisited the SSH key management feature since a few important options were still missing. Previously, you could add your public SSH keys so they would be authorized on newly provisioned servers. However, there was no way...

One of Laravel’s best features is its queue system. To run it in production, you need to install a daemon that starts the Laravel queue command, monitors it, and keeps it running. Traditionally, installing a daemon on the server requires SSH access and manually creating a Supervisor configuration file. However, with Fuse, I’ve made it ...

You can deploy almost any Git repository URL with Fuse, using either HTTPS or SSH (git@). However, to use git@ URLs, you must ensure your server has access to your repositories. To grant access, you typically register your server’s public SSH key with your source provider, such as GitHub. Previously, to obtain the public SSH key, you h...

This is something I have wanted for a long time: the ability to see deployment logs and inspect what was run. Fortunately, by storing the output of scripts when they finish, I was finally able to implement this feature. When a deployment is triggered, a script runs on the remote server to start the deployment process. It also makes a c...

Deployments can fail for various reasons. A faulty deployment script might run before or after the deploy, or a bad script could execute before activating the release. Sometimes, things just go wrong, and previously, Fuse had no way to detect a failed deployment. It’s time to address this issue. One way to detect a failed deployment is...

Wouldn’t it be nice to know which commit was deployed? Well, I just shipped that feature. Now, on the deployments table, you can see the commit hash that was deployed, so you’ll always know the latest commit deployed from your Laravel app. When a deployment script finishes, it calls back to Fuse to update the deployment status to "depl...

When a new deployment is triggered, Fuse dispatches a DeploySite job. However, there was previously no way to monitor the deployment—for example, if the deployment script ran too long without marking the deployment as successful. To address this, I improved the job to actively monitor the deployment status. First, if the deployment is ...

When provisioning a server with Fuse, the server you create with your provider may not be immediately ready for provisioning. This is often because the server is still running its package manager, which can conflict with the Fuse provisioning script. To address this, Fuse now checks if a package manager is running on your server before...

Provisioning a new server doesn't always go as expected. So far, Fuse hasn’t provided any feedback when an error occurs or if provisioning fails, which can cause the provisioning status to hang indefinitely. It’s time to address this issue. First, Fuse shouldn't attempt to provision a server that has already been provisioned. When a se...

At Fuse, each new site created has an opinionated zero-downtime deployment flow that works for most basic Laravel applications. But not all application deployments are the same, and from now on, they can be customized. Because Fuse uses a zero-downtime deployment approach, you must first declare which directories and files can be share...

Fuse uses the Laravel Queues system internally to dispatch jobs for provisioning. This means the work is offloaded, and you, as a user, don’t really know if the status of the server has changed to provisioned unless you refresh the page. That’s not good; you want to always know what the latest status is without refreshing the page. The...

Only a few hours have passed since I launched Fuse, and I continue shipping improvements. Let’s be honest, I was a bit in a hurry to launch Fuse; I needed to stop working only locally and actually ship it to the world. However, it means that a few things were not optimal: the UI was not clear, and UI copy was missing, but at least it’s...

Well, probably with other services you can do it too, but here I'm presenting my very own personal service to deploy Laravel apps, from provisioning a fresh VPS server to deploying a Laravel app with zero downtime. It took a while; other services offer this service too; however, their pricing may not be the best. It’s something that I ...

Now that Picstome offers handles for public profiles for photographers, the next best use case for these handles is to display bio links. This feature allows photographers to showcase their social profiles in one place, serving as an alternative to linktr.ee. Customers should be able to create bio links, which we will display on their ...

Picstome currently has no customers, but it was fun to implement a feature that deletes galleries when customers stop paying for their subscriptions. Since storage is the primary cost for Picstome, our terms and conditions state that all galleries will be deleted seven days after a subscription expires. We plan to send reminders before...

We have exciting plans for Picstome to enhance its utility for photographers, particularly in showcasing work such as portfolios or external links like biolinks. However, we currently lack an option for users to have a handle like `picstome.com/@oliver`, so we needed to address this issue first. My plan was to generate a unique usernam...

La mayoría de los consejos que podemos leer sobre cómo construir y promover SaaS indican que primero debes comenzar por la landing page, incluso antes de haber desarrollado el producto. Siempre se sugiere tener una forma de promover lo que vas a construir. Crear una landing page antes de tener el producto fue una experiencia incómoda p...

La landing page es el primer paso para validar el interés en un producto. Antes de invertir tiempo y recursos en el desarrollo completo, una landing page nos permite presentar nuestra propuesta a potenciales clientes y evaluar su reacción. Es el espacio donde podemos comunicar directamente el problema que podría enfrentar nuestro publi...

En las últimas semanas, he incorporado completamente el uso de IA en mi flujo de trabajo como creador de aplicaciones web. Utilizo modelos de inteligencia artificial para tareas clave como la redacción de landing pages, la implementación de nuevas funcionalidades mediante desarrollo guiado por pruebas (TDD), y la corrección de errores ...

En Picstome, recientemente tuvimos que limitar el acceso a la creación de contratos para los clientes. En lugar de permitir contratos ilimitados, los clientes gratuitos ahora solo pueden crear hasta cinco contratos al mes. Para simplificar, el conteo mensual de contratos comienza el primer día del mes, sin importar cuándo se creó la cu...

Como desarrollador web que crea su propio producto, sabes que la velocidad y la calidad son fundamentales. Recientemente, enfrenté un desafío al implementar una función para compartir galerías. Los usuarios podían compartir galerías con fotos con marca de agua y también tenían la opción de descargar la galería. Sin embargo, estas dos o...

Ahora que trabajo en un portafolio de productos, construirlos no es mi principal dificultad, al fin y al cabo soy desarrollador web. En cambio, me resulta desafiante actuar como vendedor, intentar vender un producto y escribir textos de marketing. Buscando ayuda: La Guía de Stripe Lo primero que consideré fue buscar ayuda. Tras una bús...