Product scoping, Laravel backend, React or Vue frontend, AWS deploy, post-launch support — one hand on every layer. Fixed monthly price. 14-day money-back.
- Scope
- Ship
- Iterate
monthly subscription
Who this is for
Funded startup or SMB owner who has chosen Laravel and needs a single person to scope, architect, build, and ship the full application — without splitting the work across three vendors and a project manager.
The pain today
- You cannot find one person who handles product, backend, infrastructure, and frontend.
- Three vendors means three schedules, three invoices, and no one accountable for the whole thing.
- Agencies quote $80k and need six months to ship what you need in eight weeks.
- Offshore shops disappear the moment the spec turns ambiguous.
- You have a Laravel codebase that grew without tests, queues, or a deployment strategy and now it is slowing you down.
The outcome you get
- A full-stack Laravel application shipped by one senior engineer with 17 years of production experience.
- Fixed $4,999/mo subscription — no scope-creep invoices, no surprise billing.
- one customer at a time — your project is never a rounding error.
- Two to four day delivery cycles with daily async updates.
- Code, deploy keys, and docs are yours from the first commit.
What a full-stack Laravel engagement covers
Laravel development services here cover the full build cycle, not just the backend. Discovery takes two to five days: written spec, architecture diagram, risk list, wireframes where useful. Backend work includes API design, Eloquent models, jobs and queues, form requests, policies, and test coverage with PHPUnit or Pest. Frontend integration uses React, Vue, or Inertia depending on what fits the project. Auth is handled with Sanctum or Fortify plus custom authorization policies. Infrastructure is provisioned on AWS via Pulumi — staging parity, CI/CD pipeline, zero-downtime deploys. Background jobs run on Redis with Horizon; observability is Sentry plus structured logs. Post-launch support is part of the subscription — bugs found after deploy are fixed at no extra charge.
I work directly in Laravel 11 and 12. When a project is an existing codebase, I audit before quoting — dead routes, N+1 queries, missing indexes, and missing tests all affect scope and timeline.
A full-stack Laravel application shipped by one senior engineer with 17 years of production experience.
Multi-tenant SaaS: where Laravel earns its reputation
Multi-tenant SaaS is one of the strongest use cases for Laravel, and it is where the framework's first-party tooling pays off. Laravel Cashier handles subscription billing and usage metering. Laravel Pennant manages feature flags per tenant without custom plumbing. Laravel Sanctum covers API token auth. Tenancy for Laravel handles database-level isolation — single-database shared schema for early-stage speed, or per-tenant databases when a customer demands strict data separation.
I have built multi-tenant backends where tenant onboarding, billing, and feature gating were all live within the first two-week cycle. The architecture decisions (shared vs. isolated schema, queue workers per tenant vs. shared pool, subdomain routing vs. path-based) are part of discovery, not an afterthought. If you are early-stage, I will push you toward the simpler shared-schema approach first — it ships faster and is trivially migrated later.
For context on what that delivery pace looks like in practice: GigEasy, a Barclays and Bain-backed fintech, went from zero to an investor-ready MVP in 3 weeks instead of the typical 10-week development cycle. Laravel, React, PostgreSQL, Redis queues, AWS via Pulumi — one engineer, one coherent architecture.
3 weeks: From kickoff to investor demo.
Timeline and delivery cadence
Kickoff is a paid discovery week: written spec, risk list, architecture diagram, and a delivery schedule. After that, work ships in two to four day cycles with async updates via Linear or Jira and a weekly 30-minute call.
Typical timelines: a landing page plus auth plus one feature module in two to three weeks; an MVP with core CRUD, payments, and deploy in four to eight weeks; a mid-size multi-tenant SaaS with background jobs and billing in ten to sixteen weeks. These are real ranges, not padded estimates — I quote after discovery, not before.
The 14-day money-back guarantee covers the first two weeks. If the engagement is not working for you, you get a full refund, no questions. After that, cancel month to month. Everything you paid for is yours.
API design and third-party integrations
Most Laravel projects I work on have at least one integration that is not trivial — a payment provider, a CRM, an ERP, or a custom webhook pipeline. I have integrated Stripe, Cashier, Twilio, HubSpot, and various REST and GraphQL third-party APIs in Laravel projects. The approach is always a dedicated service class with proper error handling, retries via queues, and test coverage. No raw cURL in controllers.
If you are connecting an existing Laravel application to a new service, I can scope an integration-only engagement during discovery. Some customers come to me specifically for this after a previous developer left the integration in a fragile state.
When Laravel is the right choice and when it is not
Laravel is the right choice for SaaS applications, fintech back-ends, multi-tenant admin dashboards, internal tools, and content-heavy applications where the team has PHP experience or where speed to first ship is the priority. The PHP 8 type system, Laravel's first-party testing tools, and the mature ecosystem mean a solo engineer can move very fast without accumulating technical debt.
Laravel is not the right choice for real-time-heavy products — WebRTC, live collaboration at scale — where Node or Elixir handles the concurrency model better. It is also not ideal for machine-learning pipelines where Python's ecosystem dominates. I will tell you during discovery if the stack should change, and I will refer or switch rather than force Laravel where it does not fit.
Maintenance, legacy code, and ongoing support
A number of customers come to me with a Laravel codebase that was built fast and never refactored. Missing test coverage, N+1 query chains, unqueued jobs blocking HTTP responses, no staging environment. The first cycle on these projects is usually an audit: I map the problem areas, prioritize by business impact, and give you a written report before writing a line of new code.
Ongoing maintenance — dependency upgrades, security patches, performance tuning, new features — is covered under the same monthly subscription. There is no separate retainer or "hours bank." If the codebase needs a Laravel version upgrade (say, from 9 to 12), that is scoped as a project milestone during discovery, not billed as a surprise.
Recent proof
A comparable engagement, delivered and documented.
Built and shipped an investor-ready MVP from scratch
Built the entire technological base and delivered MVP in just 3 weeks, enabling a successful rapid launch and investor demo.
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The questions prospects ask before they book.
The Applications subscription is $4,999 per month, flat. A typical MVP ships in four to eight weeks, putting the total between $4,999 and $7,000. A mid-size multi-tenant SaaS runs ten to sixteen weeks. There are no hourly rates, no scope-creep invoices — you know the monthly cost from day one.
It depends on scope. A landing page plus auth plus one feature module takes two to three weeks. A full MVP with payments and deploy takes four to eight weeks. A multi-tenant SaaS with billing, feature flags, and background jobs takes ten to sixteen weeks. These are post-discovery estimates, quoted after I have read your spec — not before.
It is one of the better PHP-based choices for SaaS because of first-party tooling: Cashier for billing, Pennant for feature flags, Sanctum for API auth, and Tenancy for Laravel for multi-tenant database isolation. I have shipped multi-tenant Laravel SaaS products where billing and tenant onboarding were live within the first two-week cycle.
Yes, and it is common. Before quoting, I audit the codebase — query performance, test coverage, deployment setup, dependency versions. You get a written findings report before any new work starts. Ongoing maintenance, version upgrades, and new features are all covered under the same monthly subscription.
Yes, fully. Work Made for Hire — every commit is yours from day one. When you cancel or the project ends, you receive the repository, deploy keys, infrastructure config, and any documentation. There is no lock-in.
Yes. An NDA is standard in the engagement terms. If your legal team requires a separate agreement before discovery, I will sign it. Confidentiality is part of every customer relationship, not an add-on.
Often, yes. I have worked embedded inside teams at GigEasy, Cuez, and bolttech — pairing, code review, and handoff to in-house engineers are part of how I work. I fit into the existing process rather than imposing a separate one.