Greetings From Laravel Land

Introductions
#1

Hello,

I’m Taylor Otwell, software engineer at UserScape where I’ve primarily worked on Snappy for the past year or two. I’m also the creator of the Laravel PHP framework (http://laravel.com), an open source framework / “foundation” of sorts for building web applications.

I also recently launched Laravel Forge (https://forge.laravel.com), my first paid web app. Forge is a server management app for quickly deploying Laravel applications into the wild.

Will mainly just be gleaning from the wisdom you all share, but just wanted to say “hi”! :smile:

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#2

Hello Mr. Otwell. Welcome to the forums! :smile:

#3

Hey there!

I’m sure people here can definitely learn from your experience. Not many people out there have a top tier open source project in addition to a bootstrapped web app.

Welcome aboard.

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#4

Hello Taylor!

Exciting to see you joining the flock of world-changers and progress-makers!
Congratulations on launching Forge, it definitely will make a dent in the PHP/webdev universe, it’s incredibly easy to use and already saved me a bunch of time. Keep up the good work!

Maks, one of your happy customers :slight_smile:

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#5

Welcome Taylor!

It’s a joy to see innovation in a new arena–so many new products and services live in the same spaces over and over. I feel like I want to pick your brain as much about the work you did to grow Laravel as I do about Forge.

It’s great to have you! Welcome.

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#6

Welcome to the forums, I’m awed at the fact that the person responsible for my favourite framework is on this board. Excellent work I love all of it and use it everyday on multiple projects and contracts!

Can’t wait to read more about you and your new business, I’ll sure give it a try!

#7

Welcome Taylor! My favorite framework creator on my favorite boostrap forum! Worlds are colliding!