Oh Dear
ohdear.app
Website monitoring for uptime, broken links, certificates and scheduled jobs.
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Freek Van der Herten
Spatie partner behind Oh Dear, Flare, Mailcoach and Ray for PHP developers
About Freek Van der Herten
Freek Van der Herten is a developer and partner at Spatie, a web development company in Antwerp, Belgium, known for publishing hundreds of open-source PHP and Laravel packages. Alongside client work, Spatie and Freek have built a set of paid developer products.
Those include Oh Dear, a website monitoring service for uptime, broken links, certificates and scheduled tasks; Flare, error tracking for Laravel and PHP apps; Mailcoach, a self-hostable and hosted email marketing platform; and Ray, a desktop debugging app. More recent projects include There There, an AI-assisted help desk, and Bloom, a free Mac app for running coding agents in parallel. He blogs about PHP and Laravel at freek.dev and speaks regularly at developer conferences.
Products by Freek Van der Herten
Flare
flareapp.io
Error tracking and monitoring for Laravel and PHP applications.
Mailcoach
mailcoach.app
Email marketing platform available hosted or self-hosted.
Ray
myray.app
Desktop debugging app for PHP, JavaScript and other languages.
There There
there-there.app
AI-assisted, human-led help desk for support teams.
Bloom
runbloom.app
Free native Mac app that runs Claude Code and Codex agents in parallel git worktrees.
Videos with Freek Van der Herten
Freek Van der Herten, Co-founder of Oh Dear, on Laravel, Monitoring, and AI | E133
PodcastSeahawk Media· 2026
Implementing Multitenancy in Laravel | Freek Van der Herten | Laracon India 2025
TalkLaracon India· 2025
Sit Down with Freek Van der Herten
InterviewCode with Burt· 2023
Interview Freek Van der Herten : PHP Dev, Blogger and Package Creator.
InterviewBluecoders - Recrutement de profils tech· 2018
Interviews & press
- Sit down with Freek Van der Herten
DEV Community · Interview
- Package, Open Source and Products with Freek
Laravel India Podcast · Podcast
How Freek builds
- Share code as open source.
- Build products for the problems you hit in client work.
Learn from Freek Van der Herten
[newsletter]
freek.dev
Blog and newsletter about PHP, Laravel and modern web development.
Freek Van der Herten FAQ
What products has Freek Van der Herten built?
With Spatie he built Oh Dear, Flare, Mailcoach and Ray, plus newer apps There There and Bloom.
What is Spatie?
Spatie is a web development company in Antwerp, Belgium, known for its large catalog of open-source PHP and Laravel packages.
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