First off, being some one who is new to Laravel and just getting started in PHP I found Waterhole to be a 10/10 product.
And Toby has been more than great in getting back to me when I came across issues.
Second, Waterhole is worth infinitely more than the $399 / year. If you're having trouble monetizing $100 out of a community, that's troubling and you might have to reconstruct your business model.
Happy to pay more up front and get access to the attention when needed.
I highly recommend Waterhole.
Hey replying here to say I am the same as @Tyler DuPont !
Waterhole has been bulletproof for our forum (ideas.tana.inc), zero worry on anything breaking all year, great experience. Bullet proof performance all year is worth more than $100! Toby has been super helpful, and I love when someone with talent and experience follows their instinct to build products which I think waterhole is. That is, one of the great benefits of using Waterhole for me is knowing Toby built it the way he wants, which means his taking all he learnt and all his skills to it. That’s also worth way more than $100. I get an expert in forum design to build our product, plus listen to my ideas, and generally be great to talk to. There’s always different ways to do things, but I love Waterhole as is.