Jack Ellis
@JackEllis
Building @usefathom, the simple, privacy-first alternative to Google Analytics. Tweets about scaling web apps, Laravel and my health optimization journey.
I've been building for the web since I was 13 years old and have been building Laravel apps since I was 17. These days, I run usefathom.com with a small, but mighty, team to power website analytics for over one million websites. I'm here to share my journey.
SaaS idea number three. An app called Toasty which pings your whole website from multiple locations, every 5 minutes, to force your CDN host to keep your whole site in its “hot cache”.
SaaS idea number two. An uptime checker that checks your real uptime checker SaaS. So you get pinged if your uptime checker goes down. It can be called The Uptime Checker Checker!
Building features is fun and flows beautifully. Documenting them, not so much 😅
YES. And run it over private networking not the public internet 🥳
please please please make sure your application servers are in the same region as your databases stop paying for extra latency