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Taylor Otwell’s $57 million change of mind
Taylor Otwell spent 13 years building Laravel on his own terms. Then the programmer from Arkansas accepted outside investment to tackle a problem his success had made harder to ignore: what should he build next?
SAREMCO Tech turns other people’s ideas into working software
A basketball game, a Norwegian clinic and a French storefront reveal the business behind this Lahore software studio: making somebody else’s digital plans work.
Sunlight Media Opens the Black Box of Website Pricing
A touring drummer built a Los Angeles digital agency by taking on the work he once had to turn away. Its published project prices reveal what businesses are really buying when they commission a website.
Laravel made the framework free. Now it sells the time you get back.
Taylor Otwell built a business around the chores of web development. With $57 million from Accel and a growing cloud platform, Laravel is taking on the work that begins when the code is finished.
Mubs
Mubashar Iqbal - known universally as Mubs - is a Pakistani-born, upstate New York-based software developer and serial maker who has shipped over 126 products in 26 years, won Product Hunt's Maker of the Year award in 2016, and built Will Robots Take My Job?, a site that racked up 14 million page views in weeks. He works nights (11pm-2am) while his family sleeps, ships fast, and moves on - building everything from AI news feeds to sourdough timers.
Adam Wathan
Adam Wathan is a Canadian developer, entrepreneur, and the creator of Tailwind CSS - the utility-first CSS framework used by millions of developers worldwide. As CEO of Tailwind Labs, he turned a side-project experiment into a multi-million dollar business encompassing Tailwind UI, Headless UI, and an ecosystem of developer tools. A college dropout turned prolific course creator, he built his reputation first through 'Refactoring to Collections' and 'Refactoring UI' (co-authored with Steve Schoger), generating over $2.5 million in book sales alone. In January 2026, he made headlines again when AI's disruption of developer documentation led to dramatic revenue declines and significant layoffs at Tailwind Labs, prompting major sponsorships from Vercel, Google, and others rallying to support what they called 'foundational web infrastructure.'