Introducing Headless Comments

Over the past six weeks, I've been learning Laravel and the best way I thought to do that was to build a small SaaS product along the way.

Introducing Headless Comments, an API-based commenting system for sites and blogs.

What does it do?

Headless Comments enables any site to grow their community engagement on each and every piece of content published on their site. At its launch, it features:

• Toggle comments on/off per page/site
• Track comment authors and their comments
• Email and Webhook notifications
• Daily, weekly, monthly stats
• Extensive rule system to manage which comments are deleted automatically
• Import pages from existing sitemaps
• API to integrate with any static site

Why a Comments SaaS?

I chose a Comments SaaS for a few reasons. Firstly, a goal of relaunching my blog was to enable people to interact with my content more, I thought about adding a "like" counter to each article, but comments seemed like a much more fun approach.

Secondly, it seemed like a solution with a small scope that I could build in a new language and framework without getting too overwhelmed but with just enough requirements to help me learn a bit of everything, from Eloquent models and CRUD, to Queues and Mailables.