We build it so that
your own developer can take it over
Products, internal systems, e-commerce, APIs and integrations on PHP: built from scratch, taken over from a previous team, or modernised while the business keeps running. Standard Laravel and Symfony, code in your repository from day one, a handover any mid-level developer can pick up in a week.
Built by the team behind phpukraine.com→Four things we get called for
Most requests fall into one of these. If yours is a mix, that is normal: an audit usually comes first and tells us which parts to build, which to fix and which to leave alone.
A product, a back office, a marketplace, a client portal or an API. We start with a short conversation about who uses it and what it has to survive, then estimate by stages instead of one number for everything. Every two weeks you see a working result on a test environment.
The previous developer left, the agency bills for every comma, or nobody knows how the system works. We start with an audit, make the project reproducible (repository, deploy, backups, monitoring), and only then add features.
Unsupported PHP versions, a framework nobody updates, or no framework at all. Two routes: bring it up to date in place, or migrate module by module to Laravel or Symfony while the old system keeps serving customers. Never a rewrite from zero for its own sake.
Fixes, planned upgrades, new features and monitoring, with hours sized to your product rather than a package. No mandatory contract: the code, servers and documentation stay yours, so you can hand the project to an in-house developer at any point.
From the first message to a working system
A few sentences in the form below, in English. No requirements document needed. If you have one, good; if not, we write it together in a couple of calls.
For existing code, an audit with a written report: state, risks and three options with prices. For a new build, a breakdown into stages, each with its own price and timeline, so you can drop what is not critical yet.
Work goes out in two-week iterations, each ending with something you can click through on a test environment. Priorities can change between iterations.
Your repository, your servers, documentation written as we go. When you decide to hire your own developer, they get a project that makes sense in a week. Taking it in-house is a normal ending for us, not a lost client.
Rules that keep your maintenance bill sane
Laravel or Symfony the way the official docs describe them. Filament for admin panels instead of a homegrown one. No wrapper framework only we understand.
A monolith where it is enough; queues, APIs and separate services where they solve a real problem. Complexity is added when it earns its place, not to make the quote look serious.
Rewriting from scratch is the most expensive and riskiest route and usually unnecessary. Modules get rewritten one at a time, with tests, when the numbers say it is cheaper than fixing.
No price list, because two similar-looking projects can differ tenfold. Each project is estimated after a short conversation, in stages, and if the task is not ours we say so on the first reply.
PHP at the core, the rest chosen for the job
Modern PHP with Laravel or Symfony, Livewire, Vue or React for the frontend, PostgreSQL or MySQL, Redis and RabbitMQ where queues make sense, Docker and AWS or a plain VPS for infrastructure. WordPress and OpenCart when the task is a content site or a shop, not a product.
You are looking at our work right now
phpukraine.com is a platform we built and run: a job aggregator pulling from three boards every hour, a company catalogue, salary analytics, an interview question bank, translated documentation and a set of developer tools, with a moderation panel behind it. It is the kind of system we build for clients, on the same stack and by the same rules.
Deduplication across boards, classification by framework, level, city and salary, and indexing thresholds that keep thin pages out of search.
Filters and curated landing pages, salary distributions with a published methodology, interview cards with test mode, and Ukrainian translations of framework documentation.
A Filament panel for moderation, content review and analytics without cookies. Everything deploys with one command.
What you need, what state the code is in, and when
The form takes a couple of minutes. We reply within one business day with questions, a proposal for an audit, or a straight answer that the task is not ours.