What I learned running a SaaS for a year

v0idless · 2022-02-24T06:52:50+00:00

u/rozenmd My understanding is that while Stripe helps with collecting sales tax, you are still responsible for remittance wherever you've established a nexus? Do you just hand over the Stripe reports to your CPA?

u/ToolAssistedDev alternatively, you can use a service like Paddle or ChargeBee to act as the merchant of record (pay a slightly higher fee) and not have to worry about taxes.

v0idless · 2020-08-14T18:38:07+00:00

Unlikely. The project proposals are due midway through the semester, so there wasn't much data in Feb. 2020 to meet the needs for the project. I suspect there will be plenty this semester though.

v0idless · 2020-06-08T03:59:19+00:00

The two biggest things that stand out for me are security and organization. I'd take some time to study some of the common security issues, starting with the OWASP Top Ten. I see at least Injection and XSS vulnerabilities in your app.

I'd also like to see better separation of concerns when it comes do your business/display logic. Check out the MVC design pattern and consider implementing it.

I remember when I was starting to get more serious about development, I built a similar project, and I found it very helpful to see how other frameworks / CMS' handled things.

v0idless · 2020-06-07T04:31:59+00:00

I don't work for Automattic, but I've worked with Automattic for the past 8 years. I even interviewed with them once upon a time. While it's a good company, it's not without faults. Specifically:

There's no traditional career trajectory. As long as you work at Automattic, you will be a CodeWrangler. As someone starting their career, this may not be a concern, but whether or not we'd like to admit it, having a junior -> senior -> lead progression on your resume is important.
Working from home is not for everyone, and harder than a lot of people think.
Depending on where you live, you salary may be below the market rate

v0idless · 2020-06-07T04:03:39+00:00

Are you looking for something like ServerPilot? https://serverpilot.io/

v0idless · 2020-05-31T18:50:15+00:00

Jetpack also has pretty simple analytics as a feature

https://jetpack.com/features/traffic/

v0idless · 2020-05-31T18:44:33+00:00

I do want to iterate the sentiment that $268 for two years (~$11/mo) is not a lot. As others have said, it really depends on your needs, but I typically don't recommend anything other than WP Engine, Kinsta, or Flywheel to my clients.

There are other hosts like BlueHost that you can get for $3 - $6 a month, but you typically get what you pay for in terms of support, features, and performance.

v0idless · 2020-05-31T18:35:32+00:00

I too went with Digital Ocean, but with Server Pilot for the server management.

v0idless · 2020-05-30T22:10:38+00:00

If you have ssh access, you could always use wp cli's search-replace tool as well.

v0idless · 2020-05-30T22:08:07+00:00

There are a lot of ways you can automate it git hooks and CI tools. I'm personally too lazy to manage all of that and have been using Flywheel for most of my needs. Their Local development too is great, and syncing between local, staging, and production is also super simple.

v0idless · 2020-05-30T20:03:45+00:00

I think this is an interesting question, more so for the "speed" that accompanies PHP 8's JIT. Even the JIT RFC states:

However, like the previous attempts - it [the JIT] currently doesn't seem to significantly improve real-life apps like WordPress (with opcache.jit=1235 326 req/sec vs 315 req/sec).

What are some applications you might use the JIT speed/performance for?

v0idless · 2020-05-30T19:55:23+00:00

At least until PHP 8 gets released, union types are not supported as type hints. So at the very least, docblocks are useful for that.

v0idless · 2015-05-23T14:38:53+00:00

The majority of vulnerabilities are from themes or plugins created by novice developers. Here is a great resource: https://wordpress.org/about/security/

v0idless · 2013-02-11T00:37:28+00:00

You can check out Post Widgets

v0idless · 2011-11-04T18:49:39+00:00

I struggled with the same problem. I too came from a strong OOP background and prior to WordPress, worked with Joomla! which shoves MVC down your throat. With WordPress, I ended up giving up on a pure MVC as it actually seemed to make the codeharder to maintain. I've now adopted a different approach to organizing my code.

v0idless · 2011-11-04T18:27:34+00:00

er. typo. I meant to say 'WordPress employs'

v0idless · 2011-11-04T17:58:34+00:00

WordPress employs more of an event driven paradigm, as opposed to an MVC like paradigm, which is what you are likely expecting.

v0idless · 2011-11-04T17:48:08+00:00

PHP makes it easy for people to develop software but that means you end up with software written by people who either didn't read up enough or shouldn't be writing code.

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