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Friends

Personal sites and people we rate

This is a friends page — a blogroll of other people's websites that we read and recommend. Not sponsors and not partners. If you're looking for who we build with commercially, that's the partners page.

Personal websites

People whose writing and work we follow.

  • Punyapal Shah

    Laravel engineer and open-source maintainer, core team on Pest and Pinkary. Posts about Laravel, PHP and developer tooling.

  • Benjamin Crozat

    Writes deep, practical guides on Laravel and PHP — the kind we find ourselves reaching for.

  • Christoph Rumpel

    Laravel consultant and teacher; his newsletter and chatbot book are both worth your time.

  • Freek Van der Herten

    Co-founder of Spatie. Ships open-source packages constantly and writes about how.

  • Chris Fidao

    Servers, Docker and deployment — the Servers for Hackers author.

  • Samuel Štancl

    SaaS and multi-tenancy in Laravel; wrote the multi-database tenancy package we pay attention to.

  • Brent Roose

    PHP core contributor writing about the language itself — internals explained readably.

  • Matt Stauffer

    Long-form writing on Laravel, tech leadership and building things with a team.

  • Jess Archer

    Laravel and security writing; the anonymization and migration work is exemplary.

  • Mohamed Said

    Works on the Laravel framework itself. Clear thinking on frameworks and APIs.

  • Rias Van der Veken

    Filament core team — pragmatic posts on building admin panels and developer experience.

  • Andreas Heigl

    PHP community stalwart on releases, calendars and time zones — the edge cases that bite.

  • Dries Vints

    Laravel core maintainer. Precise writing on security, events and open-source stewardship.

  • Laravel News

    Eric Barnes and the team keep the pulse of the ecosystem. The weekly recap is enough to stay current.

  • Laravel Daily

    Povilas Korop's tutorials and demo projects. The quickest way to see how a feature is actually meant to be used.

Companies we rate

Teams we have worked alongside on feed problems.

  • Multi Feeds

    Feed management for 400+ retailers, processing over a million products a day across 2,000+ integrations. Full service or self-managed.

  • Shopify

    The platform a large share of our merchants sell on, and one of our deepest integrations.

Communities we learn from

NextFeed is built on Laravel; these are where we learn and ask.

  • Filament

    The admin panel toolkit the whole NextFeed app is built on. Active plugin ecosystem and a genuinely helpful Discord.

  • Laracasts Discuss

    Where Laravel questions have been answered properly for over a decade.

  • Laravel.io

    Community-run forum and paste bin, independent of any vendor.

  • Laracon

    The Laravel conference — where the framework's direction usually gets announced first.

  • Laravel Discord

    Official chat. Good for the questions too small to write up.

  • Model Context Protocol

    The open protocol our AI setup assistant speaks. Spec, SDKs and a fast-moving community around them.

  • Hugging Face

    Models, datasets, and the discussions that go with them.

  • OpenAI Developer Forum

    Practical answers for when an API behaves in a way the documentation doesn't cover.

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We add people because we already read them, not because they asked — but if we've missed someone obvious, tell us.

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