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SaaSykit Birthday SALE Ending Soon, Generate Apple and Google Wallet passes from Laravel, Is My Team AI-Pilled?, The "AI Job Apocalypse" Is a Complete Fantasy & more
Ahmad
May 10, 2026
Hey Makers đ
GREAT NEWS! Seeing the incredible response to the anniversary deal, I decided to extend it just a little longer.
If youâve been thinking about starting your next SaaS project, this is probably the best moment to jump in before the price goes back to normal.
SaaSykit gives you the foundation that usually takes weeks (or months) to build from scratch â authentication, billing, teams & multi-tenancy, subscriptions, admin panels, onboarding, and all the SaaS essentials already wired together.
Instead of rebuilding the same boilerplate again, you can focus on shipping your actual product faster.
đ Use code âSAASYKIT2YEARSâ to get 20% off the Complete package while itâs still active.
Now, letâs jump into whatâs happening in the Laravel & SaaS world this week đ
From the Community
Laravel v13.7.0 introduces the Interruptible interface for queued jobs to respond to worker signals, a new @fonts Blade directive for Vite font optimization, bulk JSON path assertions for testing, SortDirection enum support in collections, and several other improvements across the framework.
A mobile pass is that thing in your iPhone's Wallet app. A boarding pass, a concert ticket, a coffee loyalty card, a gym membership. Apple calls them passes. Google calls them objects. Both Wallet apps let you generate them, hand them out, and push live updates to the copy that's already on someone's device.
We just released Laravel Mobile Pass, a package that lets you generate those Apple and Google passes from a Laravel app and send updates to already issues passes.
The spatie/laravel-sluggable package has been around for close to a decade. A slug is the readable part of a URL that identifies a record, like announcing-laravel-sluggable-v4-with-self-healing-urls in this post's URL. The package generates one for any Eloquent model when you save it, derived from a title or another text field, and most of the time you don't have to think about it.
AI coding agents love to run tests in parallel processes.
Running tests in parallel is great until multiple processes try to use the same local test database at once. This is mainly useful for feature tests that actually touch the database.
A small file lock can serialize access and stop those runs from stepping on each other.
Laravel v13.8.0 adds methods for inspecting jobs across all queues in a single call, plus new worker pause/resume events, assertSessionMissingInput() for testing, SortDirection enum support in the query builder, and more.
Laravel Shopper is an open-source headless e-commerce administration panel built on the TALL stack (Tailwind, Alpine, Laravel, Livewire). Rather than shipping a pre-built storefront, it focuses entirely on the back-office side â product catalogue, orders, customers, discounts, and team management â leaving you free to build the customer-facing frontend with whatever technology fits your project: React, Vue, Svelte, server-rendered Blade, or anything else.
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I have been spending lots of time figuring out what it means to become âAI pilledâ and how I can help my teams/company become AI super users. Itâs my #1 priority. Itâs existential.
AI-Pilled: Realizing AI will change everything. You reimagine your role, current processes/workflows, and what is possible. Your family and non-work friends hate you because AI is all you talk about.
The AI Alarmist, âPermanent Underclassâ panic isnât a convincing story. It isnât even a new story. Itâs the âlump-of-laborâ fallacy, with updated branding.
The âlump-of-laborâ fallacy claims there is a fixed amount of work to be done. It assumes a zero-sum competition between existing workers, and anyone or anything that may do the same jobâwhether thatâs other workers, machines, or in this case, AI. If there is a fixed amount of useful work that needs doing, then if AI does more, humans must do less.
Every board deck in AI right now uses the same benchmarks. Companies like Cursor and Sierra have ridiculous growth curves. The message is implicit: this is what AI growth looks like in 2026, and if your company isnât on this trajectory, something is wrong. Founders have to explain the gap. Investors are calibrating expectations against it. Buyers are wondering whether every vendor they talk to needs to have raised $100MM.
Every few weeks, a founder emails me some version of the same thing:
âWeâre getting early traction. How do we start doing marketing?â
Most advice is written for people at companies that already know what theyâre doing. You donât. Thatâs fine. I didnât either when I joined PostHog in 2020, and somehow Iâm still here!
This is everything about marketing that Iâd tell the Charles who doesnât know anything in 2020.
In the last 12 months, I've had the opportunity to chat with over 100 C-Suite executives at the largest companies across America. The conversation usually goes as follows: they spent a millions trying to bring AI into their business, whether in the form of new software licenses that promise to take work off their plate, or straight to the model providers in token spend.
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