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Miguel Piedrafita
I'm a 21-year-old maker, and this is my story.
The Archive
This are articles from a past life, before I fell in love with crypto. To learn what I've been up to since, go here.
Billing access to your Laravel apps with Gumroad
A simple guide detailing how to use Gumroad to sell access to your Laravel apps
How to publish your web app to the Play Store
A simple guide detailing how to package any website as an Android app and submit it on the Play Store.
Building an experimental book-reading experience with AMP Stories
I built an experimental UI for reading books using AMP Stories. Learn more about why and how I did it, and check out the result!
Building a Chrome Extension to highlight my Things tasks
I built a Chrome extension to display my current Things task on each tab I open. Here's how I did it.
Building an affiliate program with Laravel
I recently built a simple affiliate program for Sitesauce. Here's a short article detailing how I implemented it.
Implementing VAT into a Laravel app with Stripe and Cashier
I recently had to update the Sitesauce billing system to account for the European Value Added Tax (VAT). Here's a short article detailing how I did it.
The Sitesauce Story
Today I'm launching Sitesauce. This is the story of what motivated me to build it and how I did it, with a little surprise at the end.
My Maker Spotlight Interview
I was recently interviewed for the Makerlog blog as part of their Maker Spotlight series. Here's an edited and updated version of that interview.
An interview on how I'm building Sitesauce
I was recently interviewed about my experience developing Sitesauce. Learn more about its stack, revenue, implementation strategy, marketing strategies, etc.
Adding Two Factor Authentication to a Laravel app
Learn how to easily add two-factor authentication support to your Laravel applications.
Building complex interfaces with Stripe Elements
An introduction to building more than the standard card input using Stripe Elements.
An interview about building & launching Blogcast
I was interviewed on my experience building and launching Blogcast. Here are my answers!
My first conference
This summer, I attended LaraconEU Amsterdam. It was my first conference ever, and I had a great time. Here's my attempt at describing my experience.
I'm building Sitesauce! Here's why
Learn what motivated me to start working on Sitesauce, and the vision behind it.
Upgrading the Blogcast billing system for the new EU legislation
I upgraded my Laravel-powered SaaS to support Strong Customer Authentication (SCA) using Laravel Cashier v10. Here's how.
How overcomplicating an MVP killed Snaptier
Learn the story of Snaptier, how and why it died, and what we learned from it.
A Chrome extension to focus on your email
The story of how I built an extension in 30 minutes to improve your email experience.
I redesigned my website (2019 Edition)
And I hope you like it! Come learn more about what inspired me to do it, some details, and what I have planned for this summer.
How to add tasks to Things from Android
Things is an awesome task manager whose only downside is the lack of an Android app. To overcome this limitation, I've built a simple work-around.
Please, remind people of who you are on every email you send
I get a lot of product updates on my inbox every day. Here's something most of them are doing wrong and how to avoid it.
Forcing Pocket Casts to refresh their feed cache
Sometimes you'll see on Twitter a link to a new episode of your favorite podcast, but it doesn't appear in Pocket Casts. Here's how to fix it.
How I stop myself from procrastinating
Want to be productive? Here are a few tricks on how to stay away from the tempting traps of the internet.
Building a product in a week
How did it occur to me to build a product in a week? And how did I manage to do it? The history of Blogcast and everything that went in its development.
GitHub Interviewed me about UnMarkDocs
I was contacted by GitHub for an interview about used their API to build UnMarkDocs. They didn't end up using it, so I thought I'd do it myself.
2018 Year Recap
Here's everything I did in 2018
Installing Ghost on Heroku
Learn how to get Ghost up-and-running on Heroku for free and in under a minute.
An extension to remind us it's just HTML
With the internet full of amazing sites, it's easy to forget that everything's just HTML. I built an extension in less than an hour to bring that perspective back.
On Async Productivity
After getting bad grades for not being able to concentrate to study, I started researching productivity, focus and how to avoid distractions.
Laravel GraphQL Gotchas
Lighthouse makes creating a GraphQL API with Laravel a breeze. I wrote about the problems I encountered and the solutions I found so you don't have to.
Getting any Laravel project up and running in your local machine
Learn the steps you need to follow to get almost any Laravel-based project up and running in your local machine
Should you be using Discord instead of Slack?
You may have seen some Slack -> Discord migrations recently, and you may be wondering if you should move too. Here's what you need to know before deciding.
How to get through Chrome security error pages
I recently learned about a little trick to bypass the Chrome security page, even when the option isn't shown. Learn how to get through.
Please stop PRing Route::view to the Laravel repo
After 22+ Pull Requests with the same change got rejected, I decided to write an article people can link to when another PR is created.
What you shouldn't do when building a SaaS
After almost a year of working on my first product, I launched it last month. Here's what I learned.
UnMarkDocs: Better Markdown for your documentation
Learn about UnMarkDocs, a tool designed to transform your GitHub repository into a superpowered, wonderful documentation source.
An interview on Growing UnMarkDocs
I did an interview for the ‘Guest Hustle’ Zero to Grow publication about how I'm sharing UnMarkDocs with the world.
CoderYouth: A code community, but not for you
I'm a 15-year-old who has created a teenager-only code community, but why start a new community? and why only for teenagers?
Free hosting for markdown-based presentations
What started as an app clone with learning purposes ended up being a cool side project. Learn the (short) story of Webslides!
3 ways to get data from GitHub Gists
Have you ever needed to get data from a GitHub Gist? There are three different ways to do it!
Building a Laravel Blog App with Fly
When building multi-tenant apps, you may have found you need to allow users to add custom domains. Learn how to do this with Laravel and Fly.
DependenCI: Keep your Composer dependencies up-to-date for free!
Learn about how I came up, built and launched my first product.
OrgManager: Free invite system for your GitHub Orgs
Learn what OrgManager does, and why I built it.