Matt Carroll

Laravel just shipped a new laravel.com with a bold headline:

The clean stack for Artisans and agents.

Laravel has always been opinionated and seems like a solid option in this AI era. Has anyone made the switch since they started working with coding agents?

Last month, I did something that felt slightly insane.

I took our product description, fed it into ChatGPT, and asked it to build a competitor. Not a parody. A real competitor. Better features, better positioning, better everything. I told it to be ruthless.

It did!

The output was polished. Confident. Structured like a real go-to-market plan. It named features we don t have. It positioned itself against us. It looked like a threat on paper.

Hey everyone,
I m currently building a small SaaS product, and I started thinking seriously about monitoring.
Most tools (Datadog, New Relic, etc.) feel built for larger teams.
Powerful, yes but also complex and expensive.
So I m curious:
What do you actually monitor in your small or solo SaaS?
Do you track uptime only?
Do you track latency?
Do you rely on logs?
At what point does monitoring start feeling like overkill?
I m trying to understand what is truly essential vs. what is just enterprise noise .
Not selling anything just genuinely curious how other indie builders approach this.
Would love to hear your setups.