Eric Mollenthiel

Freelance fullstack dev in Lyon, France. PHP/Symfony since 2008, shipping SaaS solo from idea to production. Building ShipAnvil, a Symfony SaaS boilerplate, and putting LLMs to work inside PHP apps.

Lyon, France Joined on Jul 20, 2026 https://mollenthiel.fr

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Freelance web developer at Mollenthiel Studio

Eric Mollenthiel

Aug 13

Six decisions behind a shared-expense app, and the one where you must refuse to round

#php #algorithms #webdev #symfony

5 min read

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Eric Mollenthiel

Aug 12

A week is seven nights, not 168 hours: dates in a shared-custody calendar

#php #symfony #datetime #webdev

6 min read

Eric Mollenthiel

Aug 9

Cloudflare was 403-ing ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude on my site, and my logs never knew

#cloudflare #seo #webdev #devops

5 min read

Eric Mollenthiel

Aug 7

Splitting €10 three ways: the largest remainder method, and the tiebreak everyone forgets

#algorithms #programming #software #softwareengineering

5 min read

Eric Mollenthiel

Aug 5

Encrypting personal data at rest in Symfony: a 60-line Doctrine type, and the four things it breaks

#symfony #php #security #database

13 min read

Eric Mollenthiel

Aug 2

Building an embedded Shopify app in Symfony: session tokens, token exchange, and the parts nobody writes in PHP

#php #symfony #shopify #webdev

8 min read

Eric Mollenthiel

Jul 31

A league season is not a long tournament: four product bugs my test suite could never catch

#product #softwareengineering #testing

4 min read

Eric Mollenthiel

Jul 20

Building a production-grade SaaS foundation in Symfony in 2026 — lessons from building ShipAnvil

#php #symfony #saas #webdev

7 min read

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Six decisions behind a shared-expense app, and the one where you must refuse to round

Want to connect with Eric Mollenthiel?

A week is seven nights, not 168 hours: dates in a shared-custody calendar

Cloudflare was 403-ing ChatGPT, Perplexity and Claude on my site, and my logs never knew

Splitting €10 three ways: the largest remainder method, and the tiebreak everyone forgets

Encrypting personal data at rest in Symfony: a 60-line Doctrine type, and the four things it breaks

Building an embedded Shopify app in Symfony: session tokens, token exchange, and the parts nobody writes in PHP

A league season is not a long tournament: four product bugs my test suite could never catch

Building a production-grade SaaS foundation in Symfony in 2026 — lessons from building ShipAnvil