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Unlocking the potential of subscriptions in Europe: Strategies for success
The subscription e-commerce model is taking Europe by storm. Consumers are eagerly embracing the convenience, value, and personalization of recurring deliveries for everything from meal kits to beauty products. As a merchant, this presents a massive opportunity to build predictable revenue streams and forge deep customer relationships.
Setting up SSL for your Rails app
In March 2015, I wrote about setting up SSL for your Rails app. Back then, only 16.4% of the 148.486 most popular website had secure SSL implemented.
Building an iOS app with Turbolinks-iOS
Over the last couple of months, we’ve been shipping quite some hybrid iOS and Android apps...
Using Mixpanel Custom Queries
This weekend, I implemented a metrics dashboard for our iOS, Android and web app Sporzer. One metric that I needed on this dashboard...
Measuring Monthly Active Users
Two weeks ago, we decided that we are going to focus all our efforts for our app Sporzer towards increasing the number of Monthly Active Users (MAUs).
Forcing a Rails database migration
Today I accidentally ran migrations on a production environment that shouldn't run. Luckily, the table wasn't critical, but it did cause a feature of...
Announcing s3bucketpolicy.com
Because S3 is awesome but the policies are awful, we created a small tool for you!
Setting up an S3 bucket for your uploads/assets
In the past few weeks, we at Firmhouse are starting to make all our apps 12factor compliant. One thing that we needed...
Persistent storage for your Rails apps with Dokku and Docker
At Firmhouse, we're building Intercity Next. An open source hosting management panel for Ruby on Rails that hosts apps on servers of your choice.
Simple signup and login in your app (Part 2)
In my previous post, I showed you how to easily create a simple signup for your Rails app, without needing any external gems.
Basic signup in your Rails app with has_secure_password
The past week I've been working on a little web app that lets you post to a Twitter account as a group: http://samentweeten.nl.
Run migrations on Dokku/Heroku deployment
We at Firmhouse are currently moving our projects over to a new version of Intercity, which is using Dokku as its backend. Dokku is a "Docker powered...