Ozu, a static website deployment solution for Laravel projects, is now recruiting beta testers

Philippe Lonchampt — Fri, 24 May 2024 14:37:25 +0000

For my first post here (even if I'm a long time quite reader), I chose to present the project I've been working on, with others at Code 16, for a while now: Ozu.

Bur first, a quick presentation: I'm involved in web development since a long time, and in Laravel and PHP specifically since 2014. I founded Code 16 where we shipped a lot of projects (websites and apps) for many clients, for which we created and still are actively maintaining a quite big open source project: Sharp for Laravel.

Over the years we've had to turn down projects because they were too small or because they lacked the technical challenges that I think we are good at. When the hype for static websites came back, a few years ago, we tried many solutions and tools to build and deploy these projects on a static platform, but we were almost always disappointed by the workflow, or the limitations.

So we built Ozu, for our own needs, with three main goals in mind: keep our Laravel stack, handle all the deployment stuff automatically and allow our customers to manage their content. We are now trying to convert it to a product, since we think it could really benefit to others, and here's the real reason for this post: we are recruiting beta testers to gather feedback, and to be sure that it is a good way to tackle this (complex) topic.

If you want to know more, please check our announcement post and browse to Ozu's landing page to subscribe (100% spam free).

Forem: Philippe Lonchampt

Ozu, a static website deployment solution for Laravel projects, is now recruiting beta testers