The Power of Laravel: Success Stories from Top Companies

A summary of successful companies using Laravel

7 min readMar 22, 2023

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Laravel has established itself as the most popular framework for PHP. In this story, I will explore some of the companies that have successfully adopted it. Let’s look at some of the largest companies and some of the popular SaaS products.

Each company will include a list of linked technologies. This is based on a combination of Stackshare, job postings, and other related articles.

Top 5 SaaS products

These products have been built directly on the Laravel framework and have gained significant market share in their respective industries.

1. Invoice Ninja

Invoice Ninja is an open-source invoicing solution intended to help businesses and freelancers process payments, monitor expenses, generate custom invoices and curate proposals in one place.

Currently, more than 170,000 businesses count on Invoice Ninja for easy and fast invoicing.

JavaScript, jQuery, PHP, Laravel, Java, CloudFlare, Ruby, Modernizr, Shell, Objective-C, Dart, Docker

2. Barchart

Barchart is a leading provider of content and services to the global financial, media, and commodities industries. Their diversified client base trusts Barchart’s innovative solutions across data, software, and technology to power operations from front to back office. Barchart’s media brands enable financial and commodity professionals to make decisions through web content, news, and publications.

jQuery, PHP, NGINX, AngularJS, Laravel, Amazon CloudFront, Moment.js

3. Alison

Introduced in 2007, Alison is one of the leading eLearning platforms that offer online education and up-skilling courses.

The platform offers various online courses, certificates, and diplomas in categories including sales and marketing, IT, health, business, language, personal development, management, engineering and construction, teaching, and academics.

With 20+ million users in 195 nations, Allison is transforming how the world up-skills.

jQuery, PHP, Laravel, CloudFlare, AWS, Slick

4. CheckPeople

CheckPeople is one of the sites built with Laravel to find basic information about someone else, criminal records, background checks, and other related things. This platform has made it very straightforward for people to find email addresses, phone numbers, etc.

What makes this platform unique from other similar sites is simplicity from design to navigation and the results are categorised in a way so that users don’t feel overwhelmed.

jQuery, NGINX, Bootstrap, Laravel

5. AlphaCoders

AlphaCoders is a platform that connects content writers with their fans to collaborate for great revenue-earning opportunities. Through this platform, you can search images, avatars, art, and much more as content.

A platform built using the Laravel framework, AlphaCoders.com is expanding worldwide, and credit goes to its uniqueness.

jQuery, NGINX, CloudFlare, Ubuntu, Laravel, Bootstrap, PayPal

6. 9GAG

This list should be capped at 5, but this platform deserves a mention, and I couldn’t resist the “69” reference.

9GAG is a social media website where anyone from the world can upload their content. The content can be anything and from any platform, but the most important requirement for the content is to be funny as it is a fun platform. 9GAG is a Hong Kong-based startup started in 2008, with Laravel being the backend support for the platform.

JavaScript, Python, PHP, HTML5, Java, MySQL, NGINX, CloudFlare, Redis, Vue.js, Firebase, Laravel, RabbitMQ, Swift, Kotlin, Google Cloud, Amazon Services, Objective-C, Scala, Memcached, Cassandra, Apache Spark, Airflow, Fastly, Elasticsearch, Twilio SendGrid, TensorFlow, Looker, Flurry, Docker, Kubernetes, Android Studio, New Relic, Kibana, Terraform, Babel, Xcode, Ansible, Gradle, Grafana, Varnish, CircleCI, SourceTree, Datadog, HAProxy, Pingdom, Crashlytics, PagerDuty, Nagios, Fluentd

Top 5 largest companies

Most of these companies don’t focus on technology but have adopted Laravel to some extent to drive their solutions or services.

1. Pfizer

Pfizer Inc. is an American multinational pharmaceutical and biotechnology corporation headquartered on 42nd Street in Manhattan, New York City. The company was established in 1849 in New York by two German entrepreneurs, Charles Pfizer, and his cousin Charles F. Erhart.

JavaScript, Python, PHP, Laravel, AWS, Mailgun

2. Liberty Mutual Insurance

Liberty Mutual Group is an American diversified global insurer and the sixth-largest property and casualty insurer in the United States. It ranks 71st on the Fortune 100 list of largest corporations in the United States based on 2020 revenue.

JavaScript, Python, PHP, Laravel, Java, TypeScript, C#, CSS 3, Ruby, Shell, Golang, Kotlin, C++, Scala, C lang, PowerShell, Groovy, F#, Apache FreeMarker, Docker

3. BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a world-renowned public service broadcaster headquartered in London, United Kingdom. Established in 1922, the BBC operates multiple television and radio channels, as well as digital services, providing news, entertainment, and educational content. Funded primarily by the license fee paid by UK households, the BBC is committed to impartiality and delivering high-quality programming to inform, educate, and entertain audiences across the globe.

JavaScript, Node.js, React, Angular, Laravel, PostgreSQL, TypeScript, Sass, GraphQL, AWS, GitHub Pages, Optimizely

4. Accenture

Accenture is a global professional services company with leading capabilities in digital, cloud, and security. Combining unmatched experience and specialised skills across more than 40 industries, they offer Strategy and Consulting, Technology, and Operations Services, and Accenture Song — all powered by the world’s largest network of Advanced Technology and Intelligent Operations centers. Their 710,000 people deliver on the promise of technology and human ingenuity every day, serving clients in more than 120 countries.

JavaScript, Python, Node.js, PHP, Laravel, Java, MySQL, NGINX, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, AngularJS, Bootstrap, Redis, Vue.js, C#, Firebase, Django, Ruby, ExpressJS, Android SDK, Heroku, Microsoft Azure, Dropbox, Amazon Services, RabbitMQ, Rails, Microsoft SQL Server, DigitalOcean, Swift, SQLite, Apache Tomcat, MariaDB, Microsoft IIS, C++, Objective-C, Google App Engine, Scala, Elasticsearch, PayPal, Stripe, GitHub Pages, Shopify, Twilio, Docker, Jenkins, Bitbucket, Webpack, VirtualBox, Vim, Android Studio, Kibana, Xcode, Atom, Selenium, PhpStorm, Sentry, WebStorm, Varnish, Gradle, Logstash, Travis CI, Vagrant, CircleCI, Datadog, RequireJS

5. Deloitte

Deloitte drives progress. Their firms around the world help clients become leaders wherever they choose to compete. Deloitte invests in outstanding people of diverse talents and backgrounds and empowers them to achieve more than they could elsewhere. Their work combines advice with action and integrity. They believe that when their clients and society are stronger, so are they.

React, PHP, Java, NGINX, CloudFlare, Ubuntu, AngularJS, Bootstrap, Amazon Services, jQuery UI, Modernizr, ASP.NET, Laravel, Microsoft Azure, Apache Tomcat, Microsoft IIS, Slick, RxJS, OpenResty, Akamai, Meteor, Yii, CakePHP, Cowboy, SweetAlert, Windows Server, Jetty, CKEditor, Raphael, Kendo UI, Aurelia, Apache Wicket, Optimizely, New Relic, Sentry, RequireJS, CodeMirror

Some testimonials worth mentioning

You can find more testimonials from the official Laravel site.

I’ve been using Laravel for nearly a decade and have never been tempted to switch to anything else. — Adam Wathan, creator of Tailwind CSS

I’ve been enjoying Laravel’s focus on pushing developer experience to the next level for many years. All pieces of the ecosystem are powerful, well-designed, fun to work with and have stellar documentation. The surrounding friendly and helpful community is a joy to be a part of. — Freek Van der Herten, creator of Spatie

Laravel is nothing short of a delight. It allows me to build any web-y thing I want in record speed with joy. — Caleb Porzio, creator of Livewire and Alpine.js

I’ve been using Laravel for every project over the past ten years in a time when a new framework launches every day. To this date, there’s just nothing like it. — Philo Hermans, creator of Anystack