Date convention

Using the something_at convention instead of just a boolean in Laravel models gives you visibility into when a flag was changed – like when a product went live.

 1// Migration
 2Schema::table('products', function (Blueprint $table) {
 3    $table->datetime('live_at')->nullable();
 4});
 5 
 6// In your model
 7public function live()
 8{
 9    return !is_null($this->live_at);
10}
11 
12// Also in your model
13protected $dates = [
14    'live_at'
15];

Tip given by @alexjgarrett