Special Announcement - Accel invests $57M into Laravel Products & Open-Source Framework

[@LaravelPHP]

Live Q&A: kzbin.infoUV5KGJRN1gk

[@WesBos]

huge congrats Taylor - such an awesome community you have built

[@factonview]

Sir, I am a 20-year-old web developer from India 🇮🇳, currently in New Delhi. I have never been to school, but I found someone who taught me about computers . That's when I started learning about computers, and eventually, I began learning coding languages . When I got into Laravel, I landed my job, and Laravel changed my life . I didn't complete my college education, and I am currently in 10th grade . I just want to say thank you to you .

[@MuhammadAbdullahMirza]

Wow... Amazing M shocked to see your communication skills besides the fact that you have never been to School. Keep up the hard work boy.

[@Tux0xFF]

Impressive, keep it up, the rewards will come later

[@factonview]

@@MuhammadAbdullahMirza thank you

[@factonview]

@@Tux0xFF thankyou

[@kashthrob]

wow , this is nice , i would like to be friends with you man

[@coltonwilliams1565]

Taylor is such a great leader for this community! We appreciate you sir

[@byte5De]

Amazing development! byte5 is a longterm Laravel partner and we're proud to see our favourite framework growing and striving. Keep up the great work, Taylor!

[@simonswiss]

Watching the evolution of Laravel from the sidelines, while working in the JavaScript/React ecosystem day-to-day, has been wonderful. I am glad I got to be part of adjacent circles to Laravel through my work with Tailwind Labs and by being a speaker at Laracon AU (I am back in November 2024)! The community is indeed amazing and so supportive, I have many good friends there ❤

[@ajmeireles]

Laravel aside, someone needs to praise Aaron once again! It shouldn't be me, of course. He's charismatic, has the right timing for his speeches, asks the right questions, doesn't interrupt people, is photogenic, speaks very well, speaks English at a professorial level - easy to understand for non-fluent speakers like me, and is full of jokes. Aaron is a kind of framework for presenters. I dare say that Aaron is the right model of presenter for the Laravel community. If Laravel had to be on a TV show, let it be with a presentation by Aaron!

[@markduffy6776]

Please don't turn into Hashicorp. I came to Laravel for the community. I want to stay for the community.

[@dominuskelvin]

Congratulations Taylor. Your journey with Laravel has been so inspiring. You rock.

[@TesfamariamTeshome]

Great community! I'm from Electrical and Computer Engineering background. Thanks to my internship period, now I'm laravel developer. Laravel changed my life. Thank you artisans 💪

[@kevanschwitzer8585]

Congratulations to Taylor and the team! Look forward to seeing what the future for Laravel holds. Awesome!

[@Pressness]

I'm very skeptical. Investment fund feels "very passionate" about Laravel community. You know what that means, right? That's where they see their return of investment will come from. Yes, from the "passionate community" or in other words - you and me.

[@JacquesvanWyk]

Exciting times for Laravel. I am so happy to be part of this movement. Thanks Taylor

[@naturallifenow]

I believe that a large part of the community would agree that PHP should be maintained by Taylor Otwell and the Laravel team. Much of the language's popularity is due to Laravel and WordPress. If it were up to Zend to keep organizing talks and conferences to promote PHP, it would have died many years ago.

[@sam-j4zy]

Laravel is so addictive, Thanks Taylor for working on it everyday.

[@fevangelou]

Lots of Lamborghinis on the way. Much deserved :)

[@ocanodiego]

What an absolute legend, so happy for Taylor, thanks for giving us so many hours of enjoyable development.

[@imakeinternetdev]

Let’s gooooo! Laravel forever!

[@ocanodiego]

Super cool!!! Very excited for the future of Laravel, thank you Taylor for creating top class products.

[@LearnWebCode]

Congrats! Long live Laravel 🎉

[@sir_brian_d]

such a proud moment. love watching the continued success of taylor and laravel

[@IvanRandomDude]

Oh, God. Laravel Cloud about to become new Vercel in terms of marketing and sponsoring content creators.

[@Etcher]

Such brilliant news, well done Taylor and the whole Laravel team.

[@MyCompsci]

Looking forward to the special announcement

[@ThrowBackZone]

Imagine if DHH joined forces with a VC like Accel. Oh wait, Taylor Otwell just did that with Laravel! 🤯

[@SaiyanJin85]

The guy doesn't have to do it at that scale and yet he is doing it.... GOAT

[@alexz75515]

I'm excited for the future of Laravel and its team, but I'm still a little worried about where this will bring the company.

[@TDR9111]

Wow, this is so exciting! Laravel will be even stronger! 👏🏻 11 years ago I tried Laravel and since that day its my number one tool ❤

[@centeura1435]

I would love to see an integration for k8s from laravel to make it as easy as it was docker compose with laravel breeze..

[@ParsclickTV]

My hero! He should know web development without Laravel and community is very tiring.

[@mnoquiao]

Congrats Laravel Team and Taylor!

[@aldoyh]

Great interview, I really think Laravel needs to get Erin on their team, such amazing speaker! I definitely need to check out the cloud right away.

[@axepourhomme]

Thanks for being this transparent. Can´t wait for the future.

[@ShawnLindstrom]

Congrats to Taylor and the (growing) Laravel team! However, I take exception to hearing Homestead "was" a great solution. Homestead IS STILL meta for Windows users that run Horizon.

[@exelentshakil]

congrats! can't wait to see what coming next

[@edge-rps]

$57,000,000 / $278,972 = 204 Lamborghini Huracáns

[@FabioIngrasciotta]

Congrats 🎉! Well deserved! Laravel forever ❤

[@AlaminIslam-hi8dl]

Laravel is awesome never ever I saw. At present I am working as a Software developer in TwiteSoft Software company . I am a university 2nd year student in CSE.

do i have to learn kotlin now?

[@caneco]

8 hours ago? 👀

Glad it's just an interview about Laravel Cloud

[@caneco]

*Cloud

[@obinnaelviso]

I've been a Laravel developer for a long time and I'm so happy to see this framework breaking grounds

[@LaravelPHP]

Thank you 🙏 (Christoph)

[@DanielSzewczyk1]

hi laracon 👋

[@SaiyanJin85]

Btw, Aaron is a super cool dude

[@mactavish7287]

Is there any customer support role in Laravel at the moment or in near future? I would love to be part of Laravel while doing my favorite thing of helping people!

[@wadecodez]

Laravel will always be remembered as one of the greatest. That is why I chose it to make my Game of Thrones app. Will Laravel Cloud have horizontal and vertical scaling? I have a hard time with Docker right now.

[@FaycelBenmadani]

Will be like an availlibility zone in africa ?Algeria or South Africa for example?

[@anaisabel19886]

Has something been announced yet? Just joined now

[@anaisabel19886]

@@matthias8582 after watching from the beginning: laravel cloud and partnership with excel ;)

[@JigarDhulla]

Great Vibes. 🤘

[@wallnut4270]

Please create laravel for api / restful api only without web or something 🙏

[@adampatterson]

This is such amazing news!

[@optimusdebugger9638]

Let's gooooo

[@aliarain7037]

its my dream know i want to join laravel as a interne

[@HridoyKhan-nf9le]

Getting good day by day But i would like if you give more in Api development using Laravel. There is no starter kit for Laravel api and there are some hustle in creating password reset like for frontend. have to go to app service provider and write code. would love it if you give concentration in Laravel Api as backend as you are giving Laravel as full stack using inertia....

[@_withoutwax]

Hi Laracon 👋🏼

[@AhmedMi1ad]

Congratsss

[@insideofcode]

I love laravel than ever

[@adamiyyin4412]

how investors will get back their money and profit ? is some open source Laravel project will becomes premium ?

[@alexleo4863]

Laravel is the standard of Web framework.

[@tabibito2522]

Think i missed what the special announcement was 😅

[@joniscoding]

How did you miss it? It's even in the title 🤔

[@rohithn-76]

Great news ❤

[@IRPinheiro]

In 8 days ?

[@faridagl]

Come back bro, it started!

[@KaledNader]

Show 🎉

[@wtfdoiputhere]

i am so happy and sad with laravel happy bcz i found it eventually and web dev finally made sense sad bcz i didn't find it sooner

[@thejasonmccreary]

I want in on the IPO - $LRVL

[@TrondHus]

Homestead IS good. Still use it ;)

[@ChrisBlue4U]

When you make it just as easy to create desktop and mobile applications for all platforms with PHP backend...then Laravel will be top dog...

[@mahmoud-bakheet]

Hi laracon

[@ocanodiego]

Taylor will become a Billionaire wether he wants it or not, might take some years, but it will come. And he should.

[@viction7236]

Cheese 😢

[@drtoxiccookie]

I will still use vapor as much better for adult content as vm you have noise neighbours issue.

[@GamePlayByFaks]

also sold laravel to company... ( if you check LLC you will find it)

[@Alex1611AD]

That guy with glasses is throwing me off big time

[@vasiovasio]

Yes... the new Lamborghini Revuelto starts at $700 000! 😂😂😂

[@iamafasha]

the "Colin DeCarlo - Laravel and AI" speech 🥲🥲

[@bitcoinxofficial]

We switched from laravel to reactjs.

[@jogalong]

I'm scared Laravel will become another evil corp

[@hardevine]

Homestead WAS.. good, come on.

[@heunha9269]

When laravel did this - it got praises, when vercel did it - its getting bashed, even tho most of the tools for laravel are paid even an extension while JavaScript libraries getting hate on monetizing auth that uses infrastructure, life is so unfair man

[@mon_codes]

cant blame them, they over hype nextjs so much while the tool itself is pretty much unstable

[@tanzimibthesam5861]

The paid tools are nova forge and you are not bound to use them tbh

[@drugoviic]

what do you mean most tools, we don't pay for auth, dark mode, multi-factor auth, monitoring and alot more, most paid products are what i like to think of them as 'luxuries' and not necessities example backpack, nova, spark

[@heunha9269]

@@drugoviic so a simple intellisense on phpstorm to go to definition is a luxury instead of necessity

[@MrVimkaf]

@@heunha9269 What are you rambling about?

[@SodalisUK]

Perhaps Taylor will announce an open source Livewire UI component library to go alongside the paid Flux library. IMO having only a paid UI library is actually against the ethos of Laravel.

[@sidscorner1]

Sounds like an ethos of entitlement.

[@SodalisUK]

@@sidscorner1 Not at all. I am not suggesting that Caleb shouldn't be able to offer his efforts as a chargeable product, nor am I saying that Laravel shouldn't give Flux an official status. But what I am saying is that Laravel should NOT offer Flux as the only official Livewire UI Component library when there are others out there that are also good and are free (like Filament Forms for example). I recognise that both Livewire 3 AND Flux are technically excellent products - I was extremely impressed with the excellence of Flux as shown in Caleb's Laracon demo, but personally this looks like giving Caleb this status only because he is already an author of official Livewire.

[@ChristopheLimpalair]

Now that they’ve raised funding, you’re likely to see a whole lot more of this type of behavior

[@SodalisUK]

​@@ChristopheLimpalair IME raising funding specifically to allow a commercial service to be launched is not an issue and is actually a sensible thing to do. Laravel Cloud is also a sensible thing. So, this announcement is not in itself a bad thing at all. But it remains to be seen whether this is going to result in a change of focus away from free open source offerings.

[@ChristopheLimpalair]

@@SodalisUK my experiences have been the opposite in the long term, but I certainly hope you’re right

[@additionaddict5524]

Just use js people, it's not that bad

[@sifrious]

I love that Laravel and js aren't mutually exclusive. Just use inertia! It's actually *really* good

[@drugoviic]

most laravel devs know and use js, what do you mean

[@additionaddict5524]

@@drugoviic if i dissect the turtle it dies...

[@MrVimkaf]

@@drugoviic I think he is just pained that PHP/Laravel is doing so well.

[@xixihunjie]

中国有很多laravel开发者，为laravel高兴。

[@jasonennis4905]

Respect 🫡