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Sander van Hooft @sandervanhooft.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

A changelog is the cheapest trust signal a software company has. I've picked vendors on it. Empty changelog, or three years of "various improvements and bug fixes", tells me plenty about the roadmap. Vatly's is live now: vatly.com/changelog

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Changelog — what we shipped | Vatly

Vatly Pilot is live for European SaaS: merchant-of-record checkout, invoicing, and a self-service customer portal; all on Mollie.

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Sander van Hooft @sandervanhooft.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

One week into the Vatly pilot. Finally in real users' hands. Still feels a little unreal. Plenty of feedback, some bugs too. But people keep telling me Vatly is easy to integrate and intuitive. Watching it click for someone who didn't build it? That's what makes it worth it.

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Sander van Hooft @sandervanhooft.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

First green production deployment for Vatly!

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Sander van Hooft @sandervanhooft.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

8 PRs open, 735 closed. We're going through the final items before deploying Vatly to production. The last two weeks were rough. Team and family members called in sick one after another. Everyone is back now, and we're picking up steam again.

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Sander van Hooft @sandervanhooft.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

The EU-first shift is real. More market momentum, yes. But what really changed? The ⚡️ENERGY. Founders cheering each other on. Customers actively seeking out EU alternatives. People wanting European tech to succeed. 🧵

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Sander van Hooft @sandervanhooft.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

"We have a PHP SDK ready for you." What the developer did instead: pointed his AI at our documentation and let it figure out what to use. He vibe-coded his entire Vatly integration in one shot. Didn't even check what the AI had done. It just worked. Documentation > SDKs?

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Sander van Hooft @sandervanhooft.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

First time handing over the keys to @VatlyOfficial to an outsider. Scary. Even with someone you know like @robindirksen1. Vatly held up. Squashed bugs. Great feedback. Seeing it come to life at the @MolliePayments x @lovable_dev hackathon? Incredible.

Sander and Robin (blue shirt) evaluating Vatly's first appearance. Two men in a video call, office setting. One smiles at a laptop, while the other appears on a video call, both engaged and friendly.

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Sander van Hooft @sandervanhooft.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Some might call it laziness. I don't think so. Boring task → automate it → automation becomes interesting → rabbit hole → emerge with a gigantic backlog → repeat Artists don't thrive on 9-5. Neither do engineers. New post on my blog: sandervanhooft.com/blog/the-ar...

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Sander van Hooft @sandervanhooft.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

Writing a new blog post on how I've been working lately. Drops tomorrow.

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Vatly Payments @vatly.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

This is exactly why we're building Vatly. EU-based. EU-hosted. No US jurisdiction exposure. If you're migrating from Lemon Squeezy, consider an EU alternative before defaulting to another US platform. bsky.app/profile/sand...

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Sander van Hooft @sandervanhooft.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

LemonSqueezy is pushing users to Stripe Managed Payments. You were already on US infrastructure with LS. The migration is a good moment to ask if you want to stay there. EU-based MoR launching Q2. vatly.com/vs/stripe

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Shawn McCool @shawnmc.cool · 26/01/2026

I had the please to speak with @eddmann.com about event sourcing lessons learned from 10 years of production and a bunch of related patterns and concerns that have surrounded this architectural choice. I'm glad that we were able to cover a lot of non-introductory material here.

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Sander van Hooft @sandervanhooft.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

The Vatly landing page is live. Global MoR, built EU-first. Pilot starts in March. European SaaS founder looking to sell globally without the compliance headache? Now's a good time. vatly.com

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Sander van Hooft @sandervanhooft.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Something shifted in the last month. I used to spend hours explaining why European SaaS companies need EU-based infrastructure. Why data sovereignty matters. Now? I don't have to. 🧵

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Sander van Hooft @sandervanhooft.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Three years ago Mollie said: "Fantastic idea. Build it yourself. We'll support you." So I'm building Vatly. A Merchant of Record for European SaaS. European team, European infra, European DNA. You integrate once. We handle global tax compliance. No more €10k/year per country for local reps.

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Sander van Hooft @sandervanhooft.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

"Think Different" used to be an Apple slogan. Now it's EU policy. Privacy. Sustainability. Inclusion. Creative freedom. Apple built its entire identity on these values. They aren't American values right now. They're European ones.

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Sander van Hooft @sandervanhooft.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

🚀 I’ve been quietly working on Vatly with the Sandorian team for a while and I am now super excited 🙀 we're actually going to launch. Selling SaaS worldwide sounds great — until you hit the compliance overhead involved. We built Vatly to solve this. #saas

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Announcing Vatly: Your Merchant of Record, built for European SaaS - Sandorian

Scaling a SaaS business globally should be exciting, not overwhelming. Yet, for European SaaS companies, navigating VAT compliance, managing subscriptions, and offering localized payment methods often...

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Sander van Hooft @sandervanhooft.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I’ve been repositioning Sandorian a bit to better reflect where we’ve actually been adding the most value. Still building software that lasts — just a bit more focused now. 👇 sandorian.com/blog/softwar...

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Software That Lasts - Sandorian

The hardest software problems aren’t at MVP stage. They show up at 2×, 5×, 10× scale — payments, tax, compliance, multi-tenancy, failover. At Sandorian, we partner long-term with SaaS and fintech team...

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Sander van Hooft @sandervanhooft.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Cooking up something new for #php / Moneybird

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Sander van Hooft @sandervanhooft.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Fellow Laravel (Cashier) artisans, It's January and that means many have updated their SaaS prices (good for you!). I've received requests to make *immediate* subscription plan price updates easier in Laravel Cashier for Mollie. So here you go: github.com/mollie/larav... #laravel #saas

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Release v2.16.0 · mollie/laravel-cashier-mollie

You can now run cashier:sync-plans to see your subscription plan price changes reflected immediately. What's Changed Added dedicated command for syncing subscription plan prices by @sandervanhooft...

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Sander van Hooft @sandervanhooft.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

🚀 mollie-api-php v3 is coming your way! The last few months we've been preparing the v3 release of the popular mollie-api-php v3 client. The architecture has been overhauled completely, providing a new foundation for years to come. Stay tuned. #php

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Sander van Hooft @sandervanhooft.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

Reviewing big PRs on @github.com web is making the browser very sluggish. Anyone else experiencing this problem?https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GgmgOY9XYAAvx6j?format=png&name=small

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Shawn McCool @shawnmc.cool · 28/12/2024

I got tired of mocking frameworks in class-based languages, so I created the simplest, most compatible, and most powerful mocking library that I could imagine. It's great for PHP / Java and other class-based languages. github.com/ShawnMcCool/...

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GitHub - ShawnMcCool/ultra-mock: A mocking framework for testing any class-based programming language.

A mocking framework for testing any class-based programming language. - ShawnMcCool/ultra-mock

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Sander van Hooft @sandervanhooft.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

In case you're using Mollie Connect with #php: I've tagged a hotfix on oauth2-mollie-php just now. An unexpected breaking change in the underlying league/oauth2-client package (v2.8.0) was wreaking havoc on some integrations. Just in time for the holidays, enjoy! 🎅 github.com/mollie/oauth...

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Release v2.8.2 · mollie/oauth2-mollie-php

What's Changed The latest League OAuth2 package version 2.8.0 release caused an unexpected breaking change. This release provides a temporary fix until the issue is resolved in the League OAuth2 pa...

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