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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.
XenForo
The forum software built by the people who walked out of vBulletin - and why, in an age of algorithmic feeds, businesses still pay for a place to talk.
vBulletin
The World's Leading Community Software - vBulletin has been powering online forums for more than two decades, and it is still shipping.
LimeSurvey
The simple, quick and anonymous online survey tool that's bursting with juicy insights.
Invision Community
For more than twenty years, a small team has quietly built one of the web's most enduring community platforms - the software behind forums you have almost certainly posted in without knowing its name.
Vardot
Vardot is an enterprise Drupal agency that builds and maintains large-scale websites and digital platforms for global brands, governments, universities, and NGOs. Founded in 2011 and run by Drupal community veteran Mohammed Razem, the firm is consistently ranked among the world's top Drupal providers, has shipped 200+ projects across 30+ countries, and maintains Varbase - an AI-powered open-source Drupal distribution that accelerates enterprise web builds.
Nicolas Meunier
Nicolas Meunier is the Founder and CEO of talent.io, a Paris-based reverse recruitment platform that flips the traditional hiring model on its head - instead of candidates chasing companies, vetted tech companies apply to pre-screened software engineers. A Stanford-trained computer scientist and Ecole Polytechnique alumnus, Meunier co-founded talent.io in 2015 after previously co-founding CruiseWise (acquired by TripAdvisor) and working as a senior software engineer at Cruise Critic. Under his leadership, talent.io has grown to serve 2,000+ tech companies and 150,000+ developers across 8+ European cities, raising $11M in funding from top investors including Alven Capital and Ventech.
Pieter Levels
Pieter Levels (levelsio) is a Dutch solo founder, serial indie hacker, and bootstrapping legend who built a $3M/year portfolio of AI and remote-work tools — NomadList, Remote OK, PhotoAI, InteriorAI, and a viral flight simulator — entirely alone, with no investors, no employees, and a stubborn preference for vanilla PHP. He pioneered the digital nomad community, co-launched the EU/acc movement, and turned a 2014 Google Spreadsheet tweet into a global platform. His build-in-public style and radical transparency reshaped how a generation of founders think about success.
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.'