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Laravel - The Open Source Advantage
Laravel - The Open Source Advantage

What is Open Source, how it affects your business, or the risks and benefits that come with it.

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09 Feb, 2026 6 min read
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Why AI Is Becoming Essential for Membership Communities

Personalisation has moved from being a competitive advantage to becoming a baseline expectation.

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09 Feb, 2026 6 min read
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Laravel - The Ecosystem

The Laravel ecosystem is thriving, with both first-party (created and maintained by Laravel Holdings Inc), and third-party (created and marinated by community members) software and extensions.

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03 Feb, 2026 8 min read
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Laracon US 2025 recap: Why “You Should Reinvent The Wheel” matters for your website

We attended Laracon US 2025 and Thiery Laverdure’s talk, “You Should Reinvent The Wheel,” challenged a common rule in web development. Careful reinvention can remove hidden complexity, speed delivery, and produce software that fits today’s needs.

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05 Jan, 2026 3 min read
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Laracon US 2025 recap: What “Laravel Boost” means for your website

Laravel Boost brings safer, Laravel-aware AI into your project. It gives assistants real context like routes, schema, logs and versioned docs so small features ship faster, code stays consistent and debugging gets clearer.

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01 Dec, 2025 3 min read
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Laravel Agency Pricing Models Explained (Fixed, Retainer and Time & Materials)
Laravel Agency Pricing Models Explained (Fixed, Retainer and Time & Materials)

Why the cheapest quote could cost you more

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19 Nov, 2025 5 min read
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Laracon US 2025 recap: Pest 4 and why it matters for your website

Pest 4 brings faster, more reliable testing to our Laravel projects with Playwright browser checks, visual regression tools and smarter diagnostics, helping us catch issues early, ship confidently and keep your product stable and high-quality.

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19 Nov, 2025 3 min read
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What is GEO and why would I build an MCP Server?
What is GEO and why would I build an MCP Server?
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31 Oct, 2025 5 min read
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Laravel explained in three minutes
Laravel explained in three minutes

Let’s get one thing out of the way: this one’s not for developers, it’s for the rest of us.

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21 Oct, 2025 2 min read
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Three announcements from Laracon US 2025 that will save you money
Three announcements from Laracon US 2025 that will save you money

We were there, not just to learn but to take what we’ve learnt and share how it applies to your community, product or business.

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04 Sep, 2025 4 min read
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Our Laracon US 2025 Experience
Our Laracon US 2025 Experience

Our reflections and thoughts on our trip to Denver for Laracon US 2025.

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29 Aug, 2025 4 min read
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Laracon 2025!
Laracon 2025!

Laracon US, the flagship event for all things Laravel, is just around the corner and this year, it’s in Denver.

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26 Jun, 2025 2 min read
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