Sander van Hooft
@sandervanhooft.bsky.social
Founder/engineer at https://vatly.com and http://sandorian.com. Maintainer of Laravel Cashier Mollie and more.
A changelog is the cheapest trust signal a software company has. I've picked vendors on it. Empty changelog, or three years of "various improvements and bug fixes", tells me plenty about the roadmap. Vatly's is live now: vatly.com/changelog
Changelog — what we shipped | Vatly
Vatly Pilot is live for European SaaS: merchant-of-record checkout, invoicing, and a self-service customer portal; all on Mollie.
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One week into the Vatly pilot. Finally in real users' hands. Still feels a little unreal. Plenty of feedback, some bugs too. But people keep telling me Vatly is easy to integrate and intuitive. Watching it click for someone who didn't build it? That's what makes it worth it.
Laravel Cashier Mollie now supports Laravel 13 🚀 Enjoy! github.com/mollie/lara... #PHP #Laravel
Release v2.20.0 · mollie/laravel-cashier-mollie
This release completes the Laravel 13 support introduced in v2.19.0, by bumping laravel-mollie to v4. What's Changed Upgrade to mollie/laravel-mollie v4 by @sandervanhooft in #316 Full Change...
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8 PRs open, 735 closed. We're going through the final items before deploying Vatly to production. The last two weeks were rough. Team and family members called in sick one after another. Everyone is back now, and we're picking up steam again.
The EU-first shift is real. More market momentum, yes. But what really changed? The ⚡️ENERGY. Founders cheering each other on. Customers actively seeking out EU alternatives. People wanting European tech to succeed. 🧵
The EU-first shift is real. More market momentum, yes. But what really changed? The ⚡️ENERGY. Founders cheering each other on. Customers actively seeking out EU alternatives. People wanting European tech to succeed. 🧵
"We have a PHP SDK ready for you." What the developer did instead: pointed his AI at our documentation and let it figure out what to use. He vibe-coded his entire Vatly integration in one shot. Didn't even check what the AI had done. It just worked. Documentation > SDKs?
First time handing over the keys to @VatlyOfficial to an outsider. Scary. Even with someone you know like @robindirksen1. Vatly held up. Squashed bugs. Great feedback. Seeing it come to life at the @MolliePayments x @lovable_dev hackathon? Incredible.
Some might call it laziness. I don't think so. Boring task → automate it → automation becomes interesting → rabbit hole → emerge with a gigantic backlog → repeat Artists don't thrive on 9-5. Neither do engineers. New post on my blog: sandervanhooft.com/blog/the-ar...
Writing a new blog post on how I've been working lately. Drops tomorrow.
This is exactly why we're building Vatly. EU-based. EU-hosted. No US jurisdiction exposure. If you're migrating from Lemon Squeezy, consider an EU alternative before defaulting to another US platform. bsky.app/profile/sand...
Sander van Hooft@sandervanhooft.bsky.social · 7mo agoLemonSqueezy is pushing users to Stripe Managed Payments. You were already on US infrastructure with LS. The migration is a good moment to ask if you want to stay there. EU-based MoR launching Q2. vatly.com/vs/stripe
LemonSqueezy is pushing users to Stripe Managed Payments. You were already on US infrastructure with LS. The migration is a good moment to ask if you want to stay there. EU-based MoR launching Q2. vatly.com/vs/stripe
I had the please to speak with @eddmann.com about event sourcing lessons learned from 10 years of production and a bunch of related patterns and concerns that have surrounded this architectural choice. I'm glad that we were able to cover a lot of non-introductory material here.
Edd Mann@eddmann.com · 9mo agoEp. 17: Event Sourcing with Shawn McCool @shawnmc.cool shares how event sourcing fundamentally changed how he thinks about modeling software. if you've felt stuck in the "way we've always done it" mindset, this one's for you 👇 🎧 compiledconversations.com/17/ 1/5
The Vatly landing page is live. Global MoR, built EU-first. Pilot starts in March. European SaaS founder looking to sell globally without the compliance headache? Now's a good time. vatly.com
Something shifted in the last month. I used to spend hours explaining why European SaaS companies need EU-based infrastructure. Why data sovereignty matters. Now? I don't have to. 🧵
Three years ago Mollie said: "Fantastic idea. Build it yourself. We'll support you." So I'm building Vatly. A Merchant of Record for European SaaS. European team, European infra, European DNA. You integrate once. We handle global tax compliance. No more €10k/year per country for local reps.
"Think Different" used to be an Apple slogan. Now it's EU policy. Privacy. Sustainability. Inclusion. Creative freedom. Apple built its entire identity on these values. They aren't American values right now. They're European ones.
🚀 I’ve been quietly working on Vatly with the Sandorian team for a while and I am now super excited 🙀 we're actually going to launch. Selling SaaS worldwide sounds great — until you hit the compliance overhead involved. We built Vatly to solve this. #saas
Announcing Vatly: Your Merchant of Record, built for European SaaS - Sandorian
Scaling a SaaS business globally should be exciting, not overwhelming. Yet, for European SaaS companies, navigating VAT compliance, managing subscriptions, and offering localized payment methods often...
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I’ve been repositioning Sandorian a bit to better reflect where we’ve actually been adding the most value. Still building software that lasts — just a bit more focused now. 👇 sandorian.com/blog/softwar...
Software That Lasts - Sandorian
The hardest software problems aren’t at MVP stage. They show up at 2×, 5×, 10× scale — payments, tax, compliance, multi-tenancy, failover. At Sandorian, we partner long-term with SaaS and fintech team...
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🚀 I've just tagged the very first alpha release of moneybird-api-php github.com/sandorian/mo... #php
Release v0.1.0 · sandorian/moneybird-api-php
First release 🎉 Important Notes This is an alpha release and subject to breaking changes. Actively evolving: we strongly recommend pinning your installation to avoid unexpected issues: "require...
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🚀 The beta version of mollie-api-php v3 is now available. sandorian.com/blog/announc... #php
Announcing mollie-api-php v3 Beta
The beta version of mollie-api-php v3 is now available! This new major version brings significant improvements to developer experience, testing capabilities, and overall robustness.
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Fellow Laravel (Cashier) artisans, It's January and that means many have updated their SaaS prices (good for you!). I've received requests to make *immediate* subscription plan price updates easier in Laravel Cashier for Mollie. So here you go: github.com/mollie/larav... #laravel #saas
Release v2.16.0 · mollie/laravel-cashier-mollie
You can now run cashier:sync-plans to see your subscription plan price changes reflected immediately. What's Changed Added dedicated command for syncing subscription plan prices by @sandervanhooft...
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🚀 mollie-api-php v3 is coming your way! The last few months we've been preparing the v3 release of the popular mollie-api-php v3 client. The architecture has been overhauled completely, providing a new foundation for years to come. Stay tuned. #php
Reviewing big PRs on @github.com web is making the browser very sluggish. Anyone else experiencing this problem?https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GgmgOY9XYAAvx6j?format=png&name=small
I got tired of mocking frameworks in class-based languages, so I created the simplest, most compatible, and most powerful mocking library that I could imagine. It's great for PHP / Java and other class-based languages. github.com/ShawnMcCool/...
GitHub - ShawnMcCool/ultra-mock: A mocking framework for testing any class-based programming language.
A mocking framework for testing any class-based programming language. - ShawnMcCool/ultra-mock
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