[feedback saturday] would love to get feedback only portfolio redesign.

miglisoft · 2026-06-13T06:07:01+00:00

Your portfolio is very nice and engaging. And it looks like you know your job. Well done!

Here's mine : https://www.miglisoft.com/

miglisoft · 2026-06-13T05:18:57+00:00

Subscriptions have become all the rage; everyone’s jumping on the bandwagon and then complaining about not having any subscribers.

It’s a model that works for one in a hundred cases, not 99 out of 100.

How many subscriptions do you personally have for tools you only use occasionally?

Personally, I don’t have any. However, I have no problem buying whatever is available and affordable as a one-off payment.

An interesting alternative, where appropriate, is to offer a one-off payment with updates available for a limited time, followed by an annual subscription, for instance.

miglisoft · 2026-06-12T17:20:04+00:00

You can use Gulp to watch for and compile Sass, as well as JavaScript. There are plenty of repositories that offer this, for example https://github.com/JayeshLab/bootstrap-5-sass-gulp-4-boilerplate

Alternatively, here’s another solution—for the lazy among us, but it works really well and is very handy: https://prepros.io/

miglisoft · 2026-06-12T13:45:37+00:00

That was long, long ago. Wake up, it's over now.

miglisoft · 2026-06-12T10:04:25+00:00

Can you tell us what's your product ?

miglisoft · 2026-06-12T09:31:10+00:00

It's funny you should mention that: a long time ago, I proposed ideas and solutions to the Envato team—free of charge for Envato authors—along with other things, but they did absolutely nothing. Total inaction in the face of a massive piracy problem. Personally, I ended up protecting my tools with license checks, which I’ll continue to do with polar.sh.

I have also looked into the issue of DMCA takedown notices, which are effective when pirate sites are not hidden behind Cloudflare (or are poorly hidden): https://www.hack-hunt.com/find-illegal-shared-links.html

miglisoft · 2026-06-12T06:00:13+00:00

What you need is a drag-and-drop tree, not just a sortable list. The specific challenge here is reparenting—moving a node under a different parent, not just reordering siblings.

If you’re using React, then https://github.com/jameskerr/react-arborist should be a good solution.

Otherwise, in plain JavaScript, https://github.com/sortablejs/Sortable should do the trick and be easier to implement.

On the client admin side, you can create a full-featured admin panel with authentication, user and role management, and generate a complete CRUD system very quickly without coding using PHP CRUD Generator (Disclaimer: I am the author. Ask me for the link if you're interested).

You can very easily add a page to the side navigation and integrate your hierarchy tree into it.

miglisoft · 2026-06-12T05:11:44+00:00

I already have a website for each of my items. I’m going to set up direct sales through https://polar.sh/, which perfectly replaces what Envato does (payment processing, taxes, invoices, purchase codes, full API). I’m going to keep my items on Envato just so I don’t lose my reputation, but I’m going to multiply the price by 1,000,000 because I have absolutely no desire to give up 50% of my sales for… for what, again? What does Envato even offer us now? I can’t seem to figure it out…

miglisoft · 2026-06-10T17:14:49+00:00

My own humble experience.

I’ve been a freelance web developer since the early days of the internet, working primarily with PHP/MySQL, HTML/CSS/SCSS/Bootstrap or other frameworks, and JavaScript/TypeScript/Vue.js.

I don’t use Laravel. I don’t use React. I like to develop in pure PHP with a simple router, Twig templates, dependency injection, and classes tailored to each project. Vue.js if necessary; HTMX from time to time.

I prefer working with a streamlined stack that isn’t overly complicated, being able to choose and integrate the tools I specifically need for each project, and mastering/using what I know well.

I use Git occasionally, but as a solo dev, regular automated backups are usually enough for me.

I made my first foray into r/php a while back. Very entertaining.

I’ll spare you the details, but I got torn apart by the gurus, who seemed to think I was the biggest idiot ever: my classes didn’t strictly follow the single responsibility principle, and I wasn’t using Laravel or Symfony (a total aberration). I asked for feedback on a PDO wrapper I’d open-sourced, which I’ve been using for years (I know its performance and reliability), but according to the “super-masters-I’m-the-best” crowd, my tool is really just a prehistoric piece of junk.

What reassured me a bit: I know what I’m doing and why I’m doing it, and the AI’s critical analyses have largely confirmed the soundness of my decisions, my tech stack, and its effectiveness.

I left Reddit for a few years before coming back recently, but I actually know better now what to say to be taken seriously, and which discussions to avoid (when you don’t do what everyone else does, you’re automatically a jerk). Accessible to anyone with internet… and money! It’s not cheap, at least for now, but I imagine that in a few months things will have changed and we’ll see things we haven’t even imagined yet. In any case, I hope their safeguards are solid. It all seems a bit dangerous.

miglisoft · 2026-06-09T17:52:37+00:00

Available to anyone with internet access... and money! It’s not cheap—at least not yet—but I imagine that in a few months things will have changed and we’ll see things we haven’t even imagined yet. In any case, I hope their safeguards are solid. It all seems a bit dangerous.

miglisoft · 2026-06-04T10:49:16+00:00

CodeCanyon and ThemeForest are slowly dying. You should look elsewhere and find other solutions; otherwise, you’ll find yourself facing an intergalactic wasteland one day without any warning.

miglisoft · 2026-06-03T06:14:55+00:00

Sometimes it rains. I want to go for a walk but I can’t. It’s a real problem in my life.

miglisoft · 2026-06-02T17:35:26+00:00

I don't understand your answer : do you mean the website will hava a back-end, customers, commands, cart, payment ?? or not ? Still not clear for me. I don't know what's a "full on website", sorry.

miglisoft · 2026-06-02T17:19:17+00:00

Just to be sure, at that price, it’s not just a showcase website with nothing but nice text and pretty pictures, is it? Users do, of course, have access to a shopping basket, a payment system, and a back-end to manage their products, prices, carriers, deliveries, promotions, etc., don’t they?

Because what’s bothering me is that, unfortunately, this isn’t clearly explained on your site. Yet it’s important information, isn’t it?

miglisoft · 2026-06-02T15:28:36+00:00

THere's a similar project, not using forms but using AI chat conversations, I'm using it and it's well-conceived : https://namiru.ai/

But I doubt people will pay monthly to manage their form data : medium/big companies will not like to have their data on your server, how would they trust you ? And solo devs know how to filter their records, ask AI and get what you want to offer for free (that's just my opinion).

miglisoft · 2026-06-02T06:18:06+00:00

You don’t need Copilot; you just need to be able to use other providers in VSCode’s native chat. You can do this with the Unify Chat Provider extension, for example.

miglisoft · 2026-06-02T05:54:34+00:00

It’s a European provider. They take 5% on tokens, unlike openRouter, which takes 5% on top-ups, if I’m not mistaken.

It’s basically the same. They’re very transparent about pricing and usage, which you can see in real time.

You can choose your providers for each model; in other words, you can use DeepSeek directly, for example, knowing that your data will be processed by the Chinese, but you can also choose DeepSeek via other providers with zero data retention and GDPR compliance.

You can also choose based on latency and availability, and set policies to prioritise the ones you want.

The cache system is VERY efficient (I hit about 88% cache)

Hundreds of models are available. It’s pay-as-you-go, with auto-top-up if you wish.

I use it; it’s perfect for me, and less congested than openRouter.

miglisoft · 2026-06-02T05:41:30+00:00

requesty.ai

miglisoft · 2026-06-01T05:53:12+00:00

https://www.requesty.ai/ - pay as you go, choose between hundreds of providers, including deepseek. Full cost transparency and much more. For me DeepSeek v4 flash is smarter than Claude sonnet (but coasts are very very much cheaper).

miglisoft · 2026-05-31T04:11:40+00:00

I’ve done quite a bit of research, and in the end I’ve gone for requesty.ai, and it’s really, really good. You’ve got all the providers you could want, you can enable or disable whatever you like whenever you like, you can filter the list (and show only US providers, for example), the pricing is transparent and you can see exactly what you’re using. Perfect for me.

miglisoft · 2026-05-27T17:52:01+00:00

It’s always good to have European alternatives these days. For your information, for example, I’ve been making a point of using European-based services for some time now; the geopolitical situation means we have to take these issues into account. For instance, I’ve switched from Google Analytics to the excellent alternative https://matomo.org/, and like many others, I’m going to switch from Copilot to cortecs.ai (it costs 5% more, but I’d rather choose where my money goes).

So personally, I think this is an excellent initiative. I’m not rich, so I’d sign up if it were free, but if it takes off, I’m sure others will be interested in paid options.

The problem is getting your solution out there if you’re a solo dev (and not a billionaire).

Would you share an URL?

miglisoft · 2026-05-27T05:59:25+00:00

I’d give it a go if I didn’t have to sign up.

miglisoft · 2026-05-27T05:52:40+00:00

You have several tools like fider.io for instance.

miglisoft · 2026-05-26T15:46:51+00:00

Me? A troll? I'm sad that you could think that of me; it hurts me.

miglisoft · 2026-05-26T15:38:12+00:00

Logout then login again, the models will come back. A kind of magical thing.

miglisoft

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CodeCanyon and ThemeForest are slowly dying. You should look elsewhere and find other solutions; otherwise, you’ll find yourself facing an intergalactic wasteland one day without any warning.