Seven warning signs that your Laravel application has crossed from asset to liability — each backed by published research, each with a practical way to check. Plus a ten-point scorecard to find out where you actually stand.
An automated script is scanning tens of thousands of servers right now, looking for Laravel applications with known vulnerabilities. It doesn't know your name or your sector. It just needs your application to be unpatched. Here's what that actually costs — in breach data, ICO fines, and real CVEs with confirmed exploitation in the wild.
Your Laravel developer just handed in their notice. You have a month's notice, an application you depend on, and no clear picture of what it would cost — or take — to replace them. This is what actually happens next, backed by UK market data on replacement costs, security risk, and what most businesses get wrong.
Building a full product before you have traction isn't ambition – it's the single most common reason early-stage founders run out of runway before anyone's noticed them.
AI has genuinely changed how fast you can build software – but the cost of getting it wrong in production hasn't moved an inch.
You had the perfect competitive analysis three weeks ago – a Claude conversation that nailed your positioning in under ten minutes – and now it might as well not exist because you cannot find it.
After a decade building platforms and MVPs, we've seen what happens when tech founders focus entirely on the product and forget the legal scaffolding around it. Not legal advice.
Apple's new Creator Studio subscription puts professional creative tools within reach for small businesses – but like every "democratising" tech announcement, the reality is more nuanced than the headlines suggest.