Profitable Businesses Built on Laravel
Published: 6 months agoIn a post I made earlier this year, I mentioned a couple of businesses that are well known for using Laravel. Some reactions to that post have centered around the limited set of examples, but that wasn't the point of the post.
Laravel continues to grow, so new apps and businesses using it are popping up all the time. But finding truly profitable businesses that are built on Laravel—not just ones that use Laravel somewhere in the mix with a ton of other tools, but ones where Laravel is the breadwinner, with teams that are keen to continue with Laravel.
I think this is whole other level of example.
So back in March, I tweeted asking who was running a profitable business on Laravel and I got a really awesome response.
I intend to keep this list up to date as time goes by, so if you know of any others, please let me know! And if you're on here already and want to get more of your products listed, just say - my DMs are always open on Twitter.
Heads up! Some of these links are tracked for affiliate earnings, meaning I may earn something when you buy.
Here goes, in no particular order:
- Obviously, first and foremost Laravel Holdings, Inc - the mothership. With products like Forge and Vapor
- Spatie - the Laravel package people. They run cool products like Flare, OhDear and Mailcoach
- Tailwind Labs Inc with TailwindUI
- SnapShooter by Simon Bennett, which was acquired by DigitalOcean (Get $200 of credits with this link!)
- Statamic, LLC by the awesome Jack McDade and co
- Codecourse by Alex Garret-Smith
- Fathom Analytics, of course!
- VideoTap
- FM LLC with platforms like Musicbed, FilmSupply and Stills
- Tebex Ltd's Minecraft server analytics, TebexAnalytics
- King of Code, behind cool tools like Vemto
- Teamworks - for the business of sport management
- Paperform - form builder and much more
- BeMyGuest - products for the travel activities sector
- Tettra - AI-powered knowledge management system for businesses
- Payit - digitizing and automating events management
- SendWP - email delivery platform geared towards WordPress sites
- Turboleague AB who run Turboboost and Turbosmurfs
- Calvient - healthcare apps
- TrafficGate - an affiliate platform that's now part of Rakuten
- Bankrate - financial publishing and comparison service
- Screeenly - powerful screenshot generator
- StatusTicker - outage monitoring and alerting
- Hospitable - vacation rental software, integrates with AirBnB and Booking among others
- Slingshot - managing brand swag
- Lockport - find lockers for luggage and bikes
- Seller Assistant - an app aimed at Amazon sellers
- clearooms - meeting room and desk management system - great for hybrid teams
- Motional.io - supporting schools and child carers in taking care of the mental health of their students
- evarto - booking platform for event spaces in Denmark
- Laravel News
- LaravelDaily
- Laracasts
- Harmonizer - a kind of Zapier alternative built in Laravel. They're growing!
- OP.GG - a gamers network
- Develop Diverse recently rebuilt on Laravel
- DirtMatch - connecting folks who have dirt with folks who need dirt
- Provalido - Procurement validation software
- aspire - South-East Asia's biggest B2B Neobank
- ServerAvatar's backend and data processing is anaged in Laravel
- FusionInvoice - self-hosted invoicing and CRM
- GetHomeSafe - personal safety system running on Vapor
- unipage - webshop solution for restaurants
- ploi.io - website hosting
- Drag'n Survey - create online surveys - I love the play on words 🐲
- Laravel Shift
- Kick - a gaming streaming service
- Softline Computer Systems creating Zygos - lawyer office management software - and Altis - account management software
- ZoneWatcher - DNS monitoring
- AlbaJet - private jet hire
- FlipperForce - house flipping software
- GoodRun - basketball court rental and pickup games
- Pure Pet Food - personalised healthy dog food (love the "Our story" video 🐶)
- Weebly - acquired by Square (now Block) in 2018
- Fintable - sync your bank data to Airtable
More to come!
And of course, this isn't even counting the thousands of indie developers and small businesses (like me 👋🏼) who are building and running Laravel applications that are profitable—even if they're not quite enough to employ anyone full-time yet.
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Simon Hamp
I run Laradevs. I'm a long-time Laravel developer and I love helping other Laravel devs to excel.
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