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New Project - Streamlining our support service with Solve Flow
We believe that support is one of the most importing things when it comes to providing products or services. You could create the best app in the world, but if you run into a problem or need help and the support you received is cumbersome or slow, its going to impact what people think of your product and potentially, especially if its a new customer, cause the customer to churn.
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Chris Board
26/11/2025•3 min readBuild In Public
Fixed Test Track Deployment Issue using Docker
For a long time, I’ve been wanting to explore Docker, but never had the time or a specific reason to look into it. However, as you may or may not know, we recently migrated Test Track from a 2 project, Vite for Frontend and Laravel for backend, to a single NextJS project to simplify our development and deployment process.
This was successful, except...
Chris Board
27/08/2025•4 min readBuild In Public
New Test Track Release - Built from the Ground Up
The time is finally here, the rewrite of Test Track is finally on its way. With the rewrite comes with performance improvements but many new features and improvements as well. Below is a list of a high level list of what’s change, but these are more detailed further down this post.
Ability to delete all test plan steps even when used in a test run
Comment badge fix
2FA Support
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Chris Board
28/06/2025•5 min readBuild In Public
Implemented Feedback from a Trial User and they Converted
Most of the advice you see online when building your SaaS is not to implement feedback based on one user, and a lot of the time that may be correct. But you should also use your own judgement and if you feel that it benefits other customers, either now or in the future, then go for it. You should of course consider even if the idea might be a good one, if it takes too long to implement, then...
Chris Board
14/03/2025•2 min readBuild In Public
Changing development stack for Test Track - Why and What to Expect
Test Track currently consists of two projects: a frontend project using the Vite ReactJS framework and a backend project using the Laravel PHP Framework.
I've recently started rewriting Test Track with a new technology stack for several reasons.
The rewrite uses the NextJS framework—a full-stack solution that combines frontend and backend code in a single project using one language. Since Test...
Chris Board
27/11/2024•4 min readBuild In Public
Docuamoury is now Live - What is it, Why I built it and what problems occurred along the way
If you’ve been following Twitter account you would have seen that I’ve building a new project for the last few months called Docuarmoury.
Its taken a bit longer than I expected, but its finally available. If you don’t know what it is, then read on as I’m going to go into what Docuarmoury is, why I built it, and what problems I faced during the development.
What is Docuarmoury?
Docuarmoury...
Chris Board
05/11/2024•7 min read