Freek Van der Herten is a developer and partner at Spatie, a web development agency based in Antwerp, Belgium. He is well known in the PHP and Laravel community for his writing at freek.dev and his presence on X (@freekmurze). Spatie has an open-source first mentality and has released many Laravel, PHP, and JavaScript packages that have collectively been downloaded more than 2.5 billion times. The company also built three SaaS products: - Mailcoach: a EU focused email marketing platform - There There: an AI driven helpdesk - Flare: an easy to use error and performance monitoring platform for Laravel apps In addition to the digital products, Spatie also is a well-respected Laravel consultancy, solving complex business problems for international clients. Next to Spatie, Freek co-fou...