Are you French?
Seems like the only place where PHP is still popular is France because of Symfony.
But for the rest I agree, coming from Rails and now working in Typescript: Rails is way faster for building stuff, but building scalable apps in a team that scale without a typed language is way more complicated
Kind of a typical PHP developer post unfortunately, it's the only language where I see people say 'I've been here long enough to know better'
That's the thing though, tech changes way too fast to say that. As soon as I see somebody say that in a interview, I assume that they are not even up to date in the language they claim to use so well, because they are likely to use it like they did 5 years ago.
I guess the key to more money today is staying flexible. I'm sure you can find well paying PHP jobs, it just makes it harder to say it so bluntly.
I run one too. International, customers in Europe, us, south America.
It's been running for almost 8 years, so now it's practically 'finished' - basically does the job for the niche it's targeting.
But I'm tired of being solo, so I'm merging with other people that are more on the sales part. One of them also has a profitable company (not saaa - involves people transportation) and needs a tech to make everything smoother (insurances contacts etc)
We'll see how it goes because we come from VERY different perspectives and need to bend our habits to be able to work together
Having a profitable SaaS is awesome (I can work on it something like 2 days a month if I want to, just managing specific invoices) but you just get nuts working from home alone after a while. It was fun during COVID-19, can't say it is anymore
I've stumbled upon this, tried it on a small api documentation of ours and it seems to work well!
Seems like a good way to make tools you use regularly but that are a bit old school become compatible with Cursor and Claude
Seems like the paint is still fresh and they're actively developing it