Education · SaaS
Multi-city sports academy fee collection
Sports academy (multi-city)
SlimReactMySQLTailwind
Laravel & PHP
Laravel and modern PHP, written to be inherited.
You've already picked PHP. What you need is someone who knows where Eloquent gets expensive, why the queue backs up, and how to leave code your next hire can read.
The brief, honestly
The stack is settled. The craft is what you're buying.
Most people who call about Laravel aren't choosing a framework. They already run one, and something in it has started to hurt: a queue worker that stalls under load, an Eloquent relation that fans out into a query per row, a test suite nobody runs before deploy.
So we read before we write. First pass is the codebase itself: migrations, service layer, where business rules ended up living. Then we set a standards and static-analysis baseline everyone can see, so a review argues about the design rather than someone's brace placement.
Delivery is short reviewable branches, PHPUnit where a bug would be expensive, and an Artisan command instead of a cron job somebody has to remember. Ten years of PHP teaches you that the expensive part is never writing it. It's the next person opening it.
Problem 01
Our Laravel app was fine until traffic doubled.
Usually the queue, not the framework. We profile the slow paths, move the heavy work to a queue worker, and put monitoring in front of it so you can see what's stuck.
Problem 02
The last team left no tests and no docs.
We add PHPUnit coverage on the paths where a failure costs money, not everywhere, and write the README that explains why the odd decisions were made.
Problem 03
We're on Slim and wondering if we should be.
Sometimes yes, often no. Slim Framework is a fine answer for a service with a narrow job, and we'll tell you when moving off it buys you nothing.
Problem 04
Every change needs the one guy who wrote it.
That's a structure problem. We pull the business rules out of the controllers, name them, and cover them — until any senior PHP developer can take the ticket.
What's included
Scope, spelled out.
Laravel application work
Feature work in an existing Laravel app or a new one: domain models, Eloquent relations, policies, form requests, service classes.
Queues, jobs and workers
Long jobs moved off the request cycle onto a queue worker, with throughput, failures and retries visible instead of guessed at.
Artisan commands and cron
Scheduled and one-off work as an Artisan command in the repo, versioned and testable, rather than a crontab line nobody documented.
Query and Eloquent tuning
We find the N+1 relations, the missing index and the collection loaded into memory, then fix the query rather than adding a cache.
PHPUnit where it earns it
Tests on payments, permissions and anything with money or law attached — we'd rather have a small suite you trust than a coverage badge.
Composer package extraction
Shared code pulled into a private Composer package with its own tests and version, so two of your apps stop drifting apart.
Slim Framework services
Small PHP services where a full framework is overhead: Slim Framework, a thin router, and no more structure than the job needs.
How we work
What actually happens, week by week.
01
Read-in
We run the app locally, read the migrations and the service layer, and list what surprised us.
02
Baseline
Coding standards, static analysis and CI wired up first, so every later review argues about design.
03
Branches
Short reviewable branches against your process, small enough that your lead can actually read them.
04
Tune
The queue and query pass: worker visibility, indexes and N+1 fixes where the profiler points.
05
Hand over
Artisan commands, a README that explains the odd decisions, and a walkthrough with your engineers.
Tech stack
The tools we actually use here.
PHP is the whole point of this page, so this is the PHP half of our stack plus what usually sits under it. If it runs something not on this list, we say so on the first call.
PHPLaravelSlim FrameworkMySQLPostgreSQLJWTREST APIsWebSocketStripeTwilioQuickBooksApacheAWSGoogle Cloud
What you get
Deliverables, outcomes and who this is for.
Deliverables
- Read-in notes on your codebase
- Coding standards and static analysis
- Short reviewable branches, your repo
- PHPUnit tests on the critical paths
- Artisan commands for scheduled work
- README and a walkthrough for your team
Outcomes
- Queue work visible, not guessed at
- Slow queries found and fixed
- Any senior PHP dev can take a ticket
- Code written to be inherited
Ideal client
Teams already running Laravel, Slim or older PHP who want senior engineers in the codebase rather than a framework recommendation.
Proof
Two builds where the PHP had to hold.
Manufacturing · B2B
No-code product finder for networking components
Pulse (electronics & networking)
SlimAngularMySQLREST API
Why the academy build stayed on Slim
The fees platform runs on Slim Framework and MySQL. Slim was the right size: a focused set of endpoints for bulk student imports, receipt numbering keyed to city and center, and a public page where parents pay by registration number and pull their own receipt. A heavier framework would have bought nothing.
Pulse: the hard part wasn't the framework
The Pulse product finder runs on Slim with an Angular front end, and its awkward part was the filter designer: a non-developer composes the search, so the shape of a query became data rather than code. Modelling that in PHP is where most of the hours went, not in the framework.
Frequently asked
Questions we get on the first call.
Both, and what drives it is the codebase: a well-kept Laravel app and a neglected one are different jobs at different speeds. Hourly fits a defined piece of work. If you want a standing seat instead, the terms for that live on the Dedicated Developers page. Send read access and we price it on the call.
Yes, that's the default. We branch off your main, follow whatever your contributing guide says, and keep pull requests small enough that a reviewer reads them properly instead of approving on faith. If your CI enforces a stricter static-analysis level than ours, we move up to yours.
Not for the work itself, but it changes the conversation. If the plan is to keep shipping features on it, we'll do that and tell you honestly what it costs each sprint. If the plan is to leave it, that's a move with its own sequencing and its own risks, and we'd scope it separately.
You own all of it, including the repo history. We reuse patterns, not code: the way we structure a queue worker, or how we shape a form request, travels between projects because that is what experience is. Your domain logic never leaves your repository — nothing of yours reaches anybody else.
We're in Vadodara on IST and most of our clients are not, so overlap is arranged per team rather than promised as a number here. In practice that means a fixed window we both keep for calls and reviews, and everything else written down so the other half of the day isn't blocked.
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