Laravel is the most popular PHP framework in the world. 500M+ lifetime downloads. Thousands of packages. A developer community that shows up — at conferences, in forums, on Twitter, in Discord servers, and in every “what framework should I use?” thread on the internet.

But Laravel is more than a framework. It is a complete ecosystem with dedicated tools and resources to help you go from building an app locally to deploying it, monitoring usage, and then improving and scaling it up. Laravel Cloud is the platform at heart of it all: a fully managed home for web apps, with managed compute, databases, caches, object storage, WebSockets, queues, and built-in scale-to-zero with millisecond wakes that keeps idle infrastructure from breaking the budget.

We’re early. Laravel Cloud is growing fast, the roadmap is wide open, and the decisions we make now will shape the product for years. There is no 50-page process doc and no layer of approvals between you and shipping. What...