Looking forward for your experiences. I am on the fence which way to go today. Also depending on the project of course.

Take a look at the upscaling features of Topaz Photo AI. 🤯

Still people seems to stuff everything in controllers and models?

Of course I should be able to choose what ever you like. It’s not that.

This is another I (been guilty of my self). Not using file system disks and instead hardcoding storage_path() and public_url() here and there. Painful switching to cloud store then.

Yes. I know. But there are so many problems you don’t know about. 🫣 Look for usage of Excel documents. Haha.

In my opinion, B2B is often the better path, but it requires understanding the area and its unique challenges. Identifying and solving real pain points for businesses. Try to verify the idea as soon as possible.

It's tricky, for sure. As developers, we often gravitate towards creating developer tools, which can sometimes be too niche or fail to address broader problems. Many "easy ideas" feel already done.

Yes. I understand what you mean. First step is that you learn that the controllers should be lean. Then it ends up inte the model instead. 🫣

Yes indeed. Too fat controllers and fat modells.

You mean honeypot? 🙃

I have been using rate limiting and a ugly (at the time a temporary solution) security question in Swedish for many years, very effective. Seems to do the work but eventually I guess some bot will figure it out.

Rate limiting seems to be an effective way. I am using it too. Honey feels a bit hacky indeed.