Solo maker behind Photo AI, Nomads.com, Remote OK, Interior AI and the MAKE book
Photo AI, Vibe Jam, Interior AI +5~$219K/mo across products
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Indie makers who build with PHP (2026)
15 indie makers on IndieMakerList list PHP in their stack — 9% of makers who share one — including Pieter Levels, Caleb Porzio and Jeffrey Way. A server-side scripting language that powers a large share of the web. Below: their products, self-reported revenue and the tools they pair with PHP.
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64
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$228K/mo
combined revenue*
5
exits
Official site: php.net
Top indie makers using PHP
15 makers, ranked by profile depth, audience and reported revenue.
Creator of Livewire, Alpine.js and Flux UI, funded by sponsors and component sales
Livewire, Alpine.js, Flux +2$112K/yr from GitHub Sponso…
Founder of Laracasts, the bootstrapped video school for Laravel and PHP
Laracasts, Rosette, Laravel Mix
Product Hunt Maker of the Year 2018 behind Sheet2Site, Web3 Jobs and SearchConsole.ai
SearchConsole.ai, Applicant AI, Web3 Jobs +5
Developer-educator behind Mastering Postgres, High Performance SQLite and Solo
Database School, Solo, Screencasting.com +1
Indie iOS developer of Overcast, previously Instapaper and Tumblr
Overcast, Unforgetful, Instapaper +1
Bootstrapper behind HelpSpot since 2005, LaraJobs and the Mostly Technical podcast
HelpSpot, LaraJobs, Outro +2
Slovakia-based 'Coding Dinosaur' who has shipped 200+ web projects
Featurenest, Download3000, Colorion +3
Software engineer and sole owner of Fathom, the privacy-first Google Analytics alternative
Fathom Analytics, Serverless Laravel, SingleStore for Laravel
Laravel developer behind Larafast, Blogr.ai and bytemail; sold Directify for $85K
Blogr.ai, bytemail, Larafast +1
Fractional CTO in Portugal shipping vanilla PHP/JS tools like LLM Overwatch
LLM Overwatch, Toolbox Space, Vanilla Devs +1
CTO and agency owner building AI products on the side: SharpAPI, BrandGEO, Legalnaut
SharpAPI, BrandGEO, Legalnaut +1
Medical doctor turned self-taught full-stack developer and SaaS maker
Evotik, EmailCheckerAI
Dutch Laravel developer, founder of Alphena and maker of popular Laravel/Filament packages
Awesome Pulse, Laravel Service Generator, Filament Timesheets
Full-stack developer running SendtoReader, which delivers newsletters to Kindle
SendtoReader
Products built by PHP makers
A selection of the 64 products shipped by these makers.
Photo AI
photoai.com
AI photo generator that trains a model on your selfies to create realistic photos and videos of you.
$86K/moby Pieter Levels
Vibe Jam
vibejam.com
Game jam for games built mostly with AI coding tools.
$44K/moby Pieter Levels
Livewire
livewire.laravel.com
Full-stack framework for Laravel that builds dynamic interfaces without leaving PHP.
by Caleb Porzio
Alpine.js
alpinejs.dev
Minimal JavaScript framework for adding behavior directly in HTML markup.
by Caleb Porzio
Laracasts
laracasts.com
Subscription video platform teaching Laravel, PHP, JavaScript, tooling and AI-assisted development, with web and iOS apps.
by Jeffrey Way
Rosette
getrosette.com
Sheet music, practice and performance library for classical guitarists, with iPhone and iPad apps.
by Jeffrey Way
No-code website builder powered by Google Sheets.
$10K+/mo at peakby Andrey Azimov
SearchConsole.ai
searchconsole.ai
Read-only MCP server that connects Google Search Console data to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other AI agents for SEO audits.
by Andrey Azimov
Database School
databaseschool.com
Home of Aaron and Steve's database video courses, including Mastering Postgres and High Performance SQLite.
by Aaron Francis
Solo
soloterm.com
Desktop app that runs and manages every dev process for your projects, with MCP integration for AI agents.
by Aaron Francis
Overcast
overcast.fm
Popular indie podcast player for iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch with Smart Speed and Voice Boost.
by Marco Arment
Unforgetful
apps.apple.com
Shame-free to-do app that keeps reminding you until tasks are done, built for forgetful people and ADHD.
by Marco Arment
Revenue of indie makers using PHP
Combined self-reported revenue: about $228K/mo across 2 makers. *Figures come from the makers' own posts and interviews, at different dates, and cover their whole business — not just PHP projects.
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Pieter LevelsSolo maker behind Photo AI, Nomads.com, Remote OK, Interior AI and the MAKE book
~$219K/mo across productsas of 2026 - 02
Caleb PorzioCreator of Livewire, Alpine.js and Flux UI, funded by sponsors and component sales
$112K/yr from GitHub Sponso…as of 2020
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PHP indie makers FAQ
Which indie makers build with PHP?
Indie makers on IndieMakerList who list PHP in their stack include Pieter Levels, Caleb Porzio, Jeffrey Way, Andrey Azimov and Aaron Francis. 15 makers use it in total.
How popular is PHP with indie makers?
15 makers — 9% of the 170 profiles with a listed stack — use PHP, ranking it #8 of 80 tools used by two or more makers.
What tools do indie makers use with PHP?
The tools most often listed alongside PHP are Laravel (9 makers), JavaScript (5 makers), MySQL (4 makers) and Tailwind CSS (3 makers).
How much do indie makers using PHP earn?
2 makers using PHP have shared revenue figures, adding up to roughly $228K per month combined. The highest is Pieter Levels (~$219K/mo across products). Figures are self-reported and from different dates.
What do indie makers build with PHP?
Makers using PHP mostly work in Developer Tools (6), SaaS Founders (6) and Creators & Writers (5), and have shipped 64 listed products between them.
What is PHP?
A server-side scripting language that powers a large share of the web. Official site: https://www.php.net
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