# Freek Van der Herten
Building since 2018. Not reviewed by Freek.
Page: https://mrrmaker.com/@freekvanderherten
Launched Oh Dear (2018), Flare (2019) and Mailcoach (2020)
In their words: "I'm the co-owner of Spatie, where my colleagues and I maintain over 300 open source packages for PHP and Laravel." (freek.dev)

## Numbers
- Revenue: €10K MRR, Oh Dear (● last reported Jul 2020)
- Products: 5
- Building since: 2018

## Products
- Mailcoach (2020 →): running
- Flare (2019 →): running
- Oh Dear (2018 →): running
- There There: dates not stated in any source
- freek.dev newsletter: dates not stated in any source

## Timeline
- Jul 2026: On Laracon US, Boston, talk: Proven Package Patterns [stated]
- Jul 2026: On WP Legends podcast, episode 133 [stated]
- Jun 2023: Flare: Flare 2.0 launched [stated]
- Mar 2023: On Sit Down with Freek Van der Herten, an interview by Bert De Swaef [stated]
- Oct 2022: Oh Dear: Oh Dear 2.0, a full redesign, launched [stated]
- 2022: Mailcoach: Mailcoach Cloud, the hosted version, launched [stated]
- Jan 2021: On Agiledrop interview: Living the dream with Spatie [stated]
- Dec 2020: On PHPBenelux Online, talk: A tour behind the scenes of Oh Dear! [stated]
- Feb 2020: Oh Dear: First redesign of Oh Dear launched [stated]
- Jan 2020: On Full Stack Ghent, talk: Introducing Mailcoach [stated]
- Jan 2020: Launched Mailcoach [stated]
- Aug 2019: Launched Flare [stated]
- Aug 2019: On Laracon EU, Amsterdam, talk: Introducing Ignition and Flare [stated]
- Mar 2019: On AFUP Day 2019 speaker interview [stated]
- 2019: Oh Dear: Doubled Oh Dear's monthly recurring revenue during 2019 [stated]
- Apr 2018: On Laravel User Group Munich, talk: A tour behind the scenes of Oh Dear! [stated]
- Jan 2018: Launched Oh Dear [verified]
- Jun 2015: On Laravel News Developer Spotlight [stated]

## How sure
5 verified by someone other than Freek, 49 stated by Freek in public, 3 outdated. Read on 11 Oct 2026.

## Sources
- About - Freek Van der Herten's blog on Laravel, PHP and AI, freek.dev: https://freek.dev/about
- Newsletter - Freek Van der Herten's blog on Laravel, PHP and AI, freek.dev: https://freek.dev/newsletter
- github.com: https://api.github.com/users/freekmurze
- Speaking - Freek Van der Herten's blog on Laravel, PHP and AI, freek.dev: https://freek.dev/speaking
- Oh Dear 2.0 has been launched - Freek Van der Herten's blog on Laravel, PHP and AI, freek.dev: https://freek.dev/2343-oh-dear-20-has-been-launched
- Website Monitoring Pricing & Plans | Oh Dear, ohdear.app: https://ohdear.app/pricing
- The road to 10k MRR · ma.ttias.be, ma.ttias.be: https://ma.ttias.be/the-road-to-10k-mrr
- A recap of 2019 - Freek Van der Herten's blog on Laravel, PHP and AI, freek.dev: https://freek.dev/1522-a-recap-of-2019
- Flare: an error tracker built for Laravel apps - Freek Van der Herten's blog on Laravel, PHP and AI, freek.dev: https://freek.dev/1442-flare-an-error-tracker-built-for-laravel-apps
- About | Flare, flareapp.io: https://flareapp.io/about
- Error tracking & performance monitoring for Laravel | Flare, flareapp.io: https://flareapp.io
- Pricing | Flare, flareapp.io: https://flareapp.io/pricing
- About | Mailcoach, mailcoach.app: https://mailcoach.app/about
- Pricing | Mailcoach, mailcoach.app: https://mailcoach.app/pricing
- About | There There AI Helpdesk, there-there.app: https://there-there.app/about
- Pricing | There There AI Helpdesk, there-there.app: https://there-there.app/pricing
- Posts tagged with 'announcement' - Freek Van der Herten's blog on Laravel, PHP and AI, freek.dev: https://freek.dev/tags/announcement
- Oh Dear! Website and SSL Monitoring Application Is Now Live, laravel-news.com: https://laravel-news.com/oh-dear-app
- Developer Spotlight: Freek Van der Herten, laravel-news.com: https://laravel-news.com/2015/06/developer-spotlight-freek-van-der-herten
- [:fr]La parole est aux speakers : Freek Van Der Herten (AFUP Day 2019 Lille)[:] – Cycles de conférences AFUP, event.afup.org: https://event.afup.org/afupday2019-interview-freek-vanderherten/
- Interview with Freek Van der Herten: Living the dream with Spatie • Agiledrop, agiledrop.com: https://www.agiledrop.com/blog/interview-freek-van-der-herten-living-dream-spatie
- Sit Down with Freek Van der Herten - DEV Community, dev.to: https://dev.to/burtds/sit-down-with-freek-van-der-herten-1oll
- Freek Van der Herten, Co-founder of Oh Dear, on Laravel, Monitoring, and AI | E133 | WP Legends, rss.com: https://rss.com/podcasts/wp-legends/2743409/
- Site checks on 2026-10-11, MRRMaker: https://mrrmaker.com/how-it-works#checks

Labels: "verified" means confirmed by someone other than the founder; "stated" means the founder said it in public. Method: https://mrrmaker.com/how-it-works