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TL;DR<\/p>\n
Two Laravel backends started serving Flutter apps on the same day \u2014 an events platform (auth, orders, offline check-in) and a helpdesk product (ops mode for agents).<\/p>\n
gatherhub-web moved to plans-only pricing with a comparison matrix driven by one data file.
\nA hardening pass: payment-safe queues, gateway reconciliation, one heavyweight dependency dropped.<\/p>\n
Two mobile APIs in one day<\/p>\n
Coincidence, but a useful one: two products I’m building both needed their Laravel backends to serve mobile apps this week.<\/p>\n
The events platform got the full foundation \u2014 token auth (login\/refresh\/logout\/me), participant orders, mobile payment with status polling, push-device registration, and an offline-first staff check-in flow. That last one is the interesting bit; I wrote it up as its own post.<\/p>\n
The helpdesk product went the other way: its API was client-only, and today it became role-aware. The same endpoints now serve ops agents working tickets from their phones, with abilities deciding what each role sees. One API surface, two personas, no duplicated \/admin routes.<\/p>\n
The lesson that repeated in both: API Resources are the contract. The moment a mobile dev consumes your endpoint, every field you accidentally leak becomes a field you can’t remove.<\/p>\n
Plans-only pricing (public)<\/p>\n
gatherhub-web, the Next.js marketing site, dropped \u00e0-la-carte feature pricing for three plans and gained a plan comparison matrix. Everything renders from a single plans.ts \u2014 the matrix, the pricing cards, the enterprise page \u2014 so the marketing site can’t drift from what’s actually sold. A pricing page is a contract too; it deserves a single source of truth as much as your API does.<\/p>\n
Hardening pass<\/p>\n
Change
\nWhy<\/p>\n
Bulk email blasts isolated to their own queue
\none big send must never delay a payment webhook<\/p>\n
Reconciliation command for stuck pending orders
\nwebhooks fail silently; polling the gateway is the safety net<\/p>\n
maatwebsite\/excel \u2192 spatie\/simple-excel for exports
\nstreams rows instead of building sheets in memory, smaller dependency surface<\/p>\n
Publish readiness enforced on every transition path
\none invariant in one place, not per-controller checks<\/p>\n
Takeaway<\/p>\n