Introducing Built with Laravel

Today I'm excited to share a new resource I've built for the Laravel community: BuiltWithLaravel.com, a list of companies and organizations using Laravel in the non-Laravel world. This is the list to use when you want to show someone how widespread Laravel's adoption is.

#The Back Story

At Tighten, I spend a lot of my time meeting with potential clients. Some of our prospective partners have already committed to Laravel, so the conversation is easier. But many folks considering working with us are just kicking the tires because someone in their organization has recommended Laravel.

Inevitably, someone in the organization needs convincing that Laravel is legitimate. They've heard bad things about PHP, or maybe they just have never heard of Laravel, and that's enough to scare them off.

One of my key tools in this type of conversation is to show them a list of other companies that have chosen Laravel and thrived as a result of it. But that list has always been a personal list, sitting in my private notes somewhere.

Earlier this year, I set out to build the ultimate list of companies using Laravel that would show our potential clients that Laravel truly is a key player in building stable, scalable web applications. And I set out to do it publicly, so I'm helping everyone, not just Tighten.

#BuiltWithLaravel.com

After the former owner of the builtwithlaravel.com domain generously donated it to my cause (thanks Ollie!), I brought on a designer and we spent the month of July designing and building out the site. And it's live now!

Built with Laravel

Each organization shows you any specific technologies we know they're using, and any specific public-facing sites we know use Laravel. Sometimes we know an organization uses Laravel internally, but we can't say specifically where; they're still listed on the site, but with just a logo.

#Asking for Your Help

I spent most of my time and energy building the site instead of the list, but here's the great news: there's a suggestion form so you can share more sites!

Here are the primary criteria for being featured on this site:

• A company or organization that uses Laravel somewhere in the organization, even if not on their public web page
• The company doesn't purely exist to target the Laravel ecosystem (or if they do, they are so deeply successful it's impressive in its own right)
• We can publicly share attribution of how we know they're using it
• No packages or other code, or marketing sites for individual developers or agencies

Basically: If you were trying to convince the CEO of a Silicon Valley startup or a Fortune 500 company that Laravel is legit, would this organization help convince them? If so, I want it here.

Please note that I'll be manually reviewing and screenshotting sites for now, so it'll take a while to get a good workflow set up at Tighten so other folks can help me. So please be patient with any delays!

#Other Work

If you're looking for a broader list of sites using Laravel, the closest I've found is Wire in the Wild, a list of projects and sites using Livewire, and Made with Laravel, a list of projects and sites using Laravel.

I want to honor the contribution of both of those sites to our community, and also specifically name that they have a different focus: each of them highlight a huge swath of smaller projects and packages, and each of them succeed when they have more content.

Built with Laravel, on the other hand, is focused on a small, hand curated list of impressive organizations. Not better, just different!

So, please, check out the site, and let me know who you think we're missing!