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Large Laravel PHP Project Examples

This is a list of links to real big money-making projects built with Laravel/PHP.

The goal is to share stories by real people, with real names, with traffic/revenue numbers if possible.

#Table of Contents

#In-Depth Stories/Articles

Jack Ellis from Fathom Analytics: Does Laravel Scale?

Awesome long article based on the story of Fathom who run Laravel on infrastructure that can handle over 157 billion requests per month (data from 2022). For large projects, Laravel will NOT be the main bottleneck.

Mathias Hansen: How Geocodio keeps 300M addresses up to date

Their entire platform is built on Laravel and uses Laravel Nova. They also make heavy use of queueing using Laravel Horizon.

Mateus Guimarães: Scaling Laravel to 100M+ jobs and 30,000 requests/sec

How they scaled to over a hundred million jobs and peaks of 30,000 requests/minute a timespan of only twelve hours, using nothing but Laravel, MySQL and Redis.

Redberry: From 0 to 150K Visitors in 4 Hours: Scaling a Real-Time Engagement Platform

When 150K users flooded a web platform in just 4 hours, with no ramp-up, no downtime, and real-time interaction required, Redberry made it possible using Laravel Cloud, Filament, PostgreSQL, and Pusher. A story from official Laravel Blog.

Matthew Davis: The Power Behind Mumsnet, the UK’s No. 1 Platform for Parents

Business of Laravel Podcast interview with Matt Stauffer from Tighten, they discuss Mumsnet's full-scale transition to Laravel, unpacking the challenges and victories of their ground-up rewrite.

Galahad Creative: From Zero to 35M: The struggles of scaling Laravel with Octane

The remarkable success of Laravel Octane in our project can be largely credited to its foundation on Swoole, a high-performance, coroutine-based PHP framework.

Behind the scenes of Lemon Squeezy with Gilbert Pellegrom

Lemon Squeezy payment provider (later acquired by Stripe) was built entirely using Laravel and Vue. PHP gets a lot of hate but the language has come a long way in the last ten years and Laravel really makes it a joy to work with.

Arvid Kahl: One Year of Podscan.fm: Reflecting on Tech & Business Decisions

A podcast episode where Arvid says that the biggest choice he made at the beginning of Podscan was to build this product with the Laravel framework. As of April 2025, Podscan is somewhere north of five to six terabytes in raw storage.

Serg: How We Are Processing 1B+ Events Per Month With Minimal Performance Impact

A very basic observability processing flow looks like this: a request comes in, the Laravel application processes the request in 200ms, and then the observability package collects the data and sends it to an ingestion server, taking another 100ms. Only after that is the response returned to the user. That means the total response time becomes 300ms, where 200ms is actual request processing and 100ms is the user waiting for observability ingestion to complete.

How Sportmonks Handles 600M API Requests a Week on Laravel Cloud

Today, Sportmonks runs 12 applications on Laravel Cloud, serving sports data to more than 100,000 registered customers worldwide, with no infrastructure failures since going live.

Jess Archer: Nightwatch Found 78K Exceptions in 2.7B Events on Forge

This internal test helped us prepare Nightwatch for launch and greatly improved Forge’s performance.

Max: StreetGroup: Laravel at scale

One of the biggest technical challenges for Street has been migrations at scale, how do you change a table queried thousands of times a second?

Michael: From Zero to 35M: The struggles of scaling Laravel with Octane

This blog post aims to share my experience using Laravel Octane with OpenSwoole to scale our system, enabling it to handle more than 35 million requests per day. I'll also discuss the challenges I encountered as a direct result of this increased traffic.

Vincent Bean: How I plan on scaling my Laravel (PHP) application

As a solo developer I want to spend as little money as possible in the early stages of this project which is why I host on a cheap VPS. But I do want to be prepared for what comes next, when this project grows I need to have a plan on scaling the hosting of this application.

Vedran Cindrić: How does Treblle scale on AWS without breaking the bank?

This one has been a long time coming. Like really long. It's been in the back of my head for months on end. But the day is finally here. I'm super happy to share the details of how do we actually scale Treblle without going bankrupt in the process.

Anup Sharma: How We Scaled Our Laravel App During a Business Expo: From PHP Artisan to PHP-FPM + Nginx

The application was unable to handle the surge in traffic. Registrations were stalling, check-in queues were getting longer, and there was mounting pressure to resolve the issue before attendees lost patience.

At first, it looked like a server resource issue. But on deeper investigation, we uncovered the real problem.

#Social Media Posts with Numbers

Srinath Reddy on X:

We are currently doing 30M / month on app built using laravel.

John O'Nolan on X:

Doing ~12M req/mo now on my laravel app on Laravel Cloud - which powers explore.ghost.org (the public front end is very simple, the back end is much more extensive).

Jake Casto on X:

Almost 100,000,000 reqs in 24 hours and people say Laravel can't scale

Alam Lam on X:

~80M req/mo now on laravel app - which powers one of our client project. The public front end by Livewire, app by React Native, the backend by Filament. Our server using Azure App Services with Redis and MySQL.

Ben Rüegg on X:

My 3 VPS (4GB RAM) handling 13,430,000 requests in 6 hours (thats about 37K/minute). Boring Tech FTW: CDN, Load Balancer, PHP-FPM, Redis

Sachin Ganesh on X:

One of my site handles ~120M requests/month on a $100 server. Laravel + Octane is 🔥

Al Kafi on LinkedIn:

Our high-performance web application, built with Laravel 12 backend and Blade + Tailwind CSS frontend, handles 109M+ requests monthly.

Lwin Maung on LinkedIn:

Tiny PHP project (source on GitHub) but hit 2M/day traffic for Myanmar Election 2020.

Shane on X:

Building Lucidly.so with Laravel/React. Hosted on Laravel Cloud and performing wonderfully. Pic is the last 30 days of requests.

Alin Ionut on X:

Here is a day of request for one of my projects. And Nightwatch sample rate is set at 10% for requests, so real numbers are 10x.

Zsoldos Szabolcs on X:

Here is one of our B2B platforms. Migrated all the way fro Laravel 5 to 12.

Jonty Behr on X:

We're handling ~230m requests per month (~88 rps) on Laravel across 3 linked sites. Original codebase was written in Laravel 4, but has been upgraded along the way, and now on L11. Monoliths, fully tested, strong typehints.

Dan Brown on Reddit:

My Laravel-based open-source project BookStack is used across 7k sites. I'm now receiving a healthy income from just donations, sponsors and support packages!

User External-Working-551 on Reddit:

Leroy Merlin Brasil mantains a huge ecommerce made with Laravel, MongoDB and Elasticsearch, with over 15 million users, 2 million products, and $1M/day in sales

Derrick Grigg on X:

I originally built PageProofer on CodeIgniter and then switched to Laravel way back on version 7. ~53K users, ~$2.5k MMR, ~$300k lifetime revenue, loaded onto ~500k web pages per day.

Octavio Herrera on X:

AddressHub is built with Laravel and we are processing millions of requests per month.

Sergio on X:

Medicloud.com.ar is a highly successful medical platform in Argentina. I am one of the co-founders. And I’m proud to share that the backend and the API are entirely built with PHP and Laravel.

JustSteveKing on X:

The Treblle.com code base was built using PHP and Laravel, and that handles (last I checked) half a billion requests per month.

Jay Patel on X:

I have built an entire ERP for 3 security companies in Kenya with Laravel / Vue integrated with an Android application. The system effectively caters for management of HRM, CRM and BI for over 5,000 employees. It has been 5 years since the go-live. Good to see happy clients.

Sabatino Masala on X

Laravel handles our traffic at Unipage like a champ. Last Friday we handled a burst of 208 requests in a single second as the evening rush kicked off, without breaking a sweat! Laravel has been powering our platform since Laravel 4.2 (~2014) and today we process tens of millions of euros in transactions monthly. Laravel scales

Scaling to 1.5M Daily Requests on a Single Server: A Real-World Optimization Story

On one of my projects, the production environment ran on a single server hosting both the database and application. As the user base grew, we hit around 1,000 simultaneous active users, a modest number, perhaps, but challenging when your entire backend runs on just one server with 7 cores and 16GB RAM.

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