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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Monthly update for @phare.io: September 2026 🌐 940 Active organizations (+35) 📈 65M Monthly uptime checks (+7M) 📄 708 Active status pages (+31) 🥰 72 customers (+5) 💰 €416 MRR (+€48)

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

👋 hey there, I've been building @phare.io on EU infra for the past 4 years

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This is why we need sovereign EU LLMs, the tech bros keep trying to push their imperialism into my SaaS 🙅‍♂️

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Can someone at @microsoft.com check on the Bing team? I think they're not OK 😭

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Maintaining a side project alive can be so damn hard, there are so many times when I wanted to quit or not spend my weekend fixing some random bug. But I also learned so much from building it and from the feedback of the thousands of Phare users ✌️

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Found some screenshots from the first release, it's always a struggle to design a screen for a new product, and you don't have enough things to fill the space, and now I have the exact opposite problem 😅

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

It's the only side project where I forced myself to continue after the honeymoon phase instead of jumping on something else. It still doesn't make me nearly enough money to compensate for all the hard work, but it's been growing steadily for the past year, which is encouraging.

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Today is the 4th anniversary of my first commit on @phare.io 🎂🎉

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Monthly update for @phare.io: August 2026 🌐 905 Active organizations (+27) 📈 58M Monthly uptime checks (+5M) 📄 677 Active status pages (+45) 🥰 67 customers (+9) 💰 €368 MRR (+€49)

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Making new features is starting to be challenging, new screens, add linked states on existing pages, make API endpoints, make Terraform data and resources, write documentation, create a landing page, and ensure everything works well together.

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

For some reason, the last week of July saw a big jump in subscriptions with 5 new customers, and SEO traffic is picking up again.

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Monthly update for @phare.io: July 2026 🌐 878 Active organizations (+65) 📈 53M Monthly uptime checks (+2M) 📄 632 Active status pages (+42) 🥰 58 customers (+6) 💰 €319 MRR (+€6)

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Also added an apple mouse, but kept the Logitech MX 🤔

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Asked Gemini to improve my desk interior design, and it replaced my Aeron with an Embody 😅

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Who could have foreseen that not working on the product for two months would reduce growth 😱

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Monthly update for @phare.io: June 2026 🌐 813 Active organizations (-26) 📈 51M Monthly uptime checks (=) 📄 590 Active status pages (+11) 🥰 54 customers (+2) 💰 €313 MRR (+€9)

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Weird month overall, less traffic than earlier this year, and lost a few non-paying users due to an ongoing incident with Phare's hosting provider. Paid customers did not churn, so there's that, and I passed €300 MRR 😎

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Monthly update for @phare.io: May 2026 🌐 839 Active organizations (+8) 📈 51M Monthly uptime checks (-1M) 📄 579 Active status pages (+37) 🥰 52 customers (+5) 💰 €304 MRR (+€22)

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

My go-to tool when building search into my app: MATCH(data) AGAINST(? IN BOOLEAN MODE) 😎

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

That's a good-looking status page 😍

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Phare @phare.io · 04/05/2026

Phare's incident AI summary and post-mortems are now powered by Mistral Small 4 😸

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Monthly update for @phare.io: April 2026 🌐 831 Active organizations (+44) 📈 52M Monthly uptime checks (+8M) 📄 542Active status pages (+41) 🥰 47 customers (+7) 💰 €282 MRR (+€42)

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Me after running for the first time in months 🥵

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

The VCs in the US military also need clothes

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

While a spend a day of my weekend to write about Phare's billing system implementation, a competitor pushed 12k articles using AI news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4764... 🤷‍♂️

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12k AI-generated blog posts added in a single commit | Hacker News

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

It was all doable, but exposed some interesting gaps in Paddle's API along the way. The implementation has been running in production for 3 months now without issues. If you're building metered billing on Paddle, I wrote up my findings and the workarounds I landed on for a clean implementation.

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

While I was at it, I wanted to improve the billing experience for my customers with calendar-month billing cycles, on top of the existing flat subscription + metered billing that define Phare's pricing.

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

Back in December I migrated @phare.io's billing backend to Paddle to let them handle VAT compliance for me.

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 03/04/2026

Hey, I actually answered before seeing there was something to win and already got a Bunny plushy, please give it to another participant 🐰🙏 Thank you, and btw your DM are not open so I couldn't message you

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

19, there's a sneaky one in the back

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Record growth last month when I did not even touch anything for two weeks is kind of crazy to see

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

Monthly update for @phare.io: March 2026 🌐 787 Active organizations (+57) 📈 44M Monthly uptime checks (+2M) 📄 501 Active status pages (+47) 🥰 40 customers (+12) 💰 €240 MRR (+€54)

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

It seems the status page business is a safe bet in this AI era 😂

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

I have the same keyboard, mouse and notebook, but a different ThinkPad 😂

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Monthly update for @phare.io: February 2026 🌐 730 Active organizations (+58) 📈 42M Uptime checks (+6M) 📄 454 Status pages (+39) 🥰 28 customers (+6) 💰 €186 MRR (+€33)

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Interesting, I was about to make the reverse move and add French / German as it's most of my traffic. Is there a reason why you went all in / all out and not keep translations on a few landing pages ?

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Nicolas Beauvais @nicbvs.bsky.social · 02/03/2026