2. Wow, sounds impressive. But it's a crowded market already, so what tools do you see as direct competitors? The same New Relic? Or maybe Sentry.io? Bugsnag? Eyewitness is positioned in between many monitoring companies. So we have a bit of what New Relic offers. We have a bit of what Bugsnag/Rollbar offers. We have a bit of what DeadManSnitch offers. Each of those tools specialises in what it offers, while we offer a single solution that takes the most common needs and puts it into one simple solution. More importantly - because we focus specifically on Laravel - our solution provides a great insight into what is actually occuring.
3. Do you have any customers already, and what is the feedback from them? Are you happy with it? We launched the day of Laracon Online (which we sponsored). Since then we are having people sign up each day to Eyewitness and the feedback has been extremely positive. We are working on adding some additional features based upon the feedback, and continue to improve the service daily.
4. What was the greatest challenge in creating Eyewitness? We worked hard to ensure our package works for all versions of Laravel 5 - including 5.0 to support people running legacy applications. However we also wanted the installation to be dead simple. The power of Laravel's IoC is truly amazing, and using that we've actually been able to use our package to "backport" Laravel 5.3 features into 5.0 and 5.1 - allowing us to monitor every aspect of an application - all without having to change a line of code. The framework of our package means we can now hook into any part of the lifecycle of the application - and we are excited about some of the upcoming features and power that provides. We've also got a beta of a Laravel 4.2 package available now that should be tagged "stable" next week.
It all sounds really ambitious. So we wish Laurence good luck with the project, and thanks for the interview. Guys, what do you think about EyeWitness? Does it have potential? If you want to follow the project, here are a few links:
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