Tampa Forge
Purpose-built applications
Booking systems, member portals, internal dashboards, quoting tools — built around how your business actually operates, not bent to fit a generic template.
Laravel & custom backends
We do build Laravel applications, and for the right job it's the right tool. But most businesses that ask for one describe a workflow that WordPress plus a custom plugin handles for a fraction of the cost — so that's the conversation we'll have first, even though the Laravel build is the bigger invoice.
Article III of our own conduct: build on dependable, well-supported foundations, not whatever framework is trending this month. Laravel has been battle-tested since 2011, runs everything from small business tools to enterprise platforms, and has one of the deepest hiring pools in web development — so your app is never a dead end.
Booking systems, member portals, internal dashboards, quoting tools — built around how your business actually operates, not bent to fit a generic template.
REST APIs for your mobile app, third-party integrations, or connecting Laravel to the payment processors, CRMs, and inventory systems you already run.
Eloquent ORM and versioned migrations keep your data model clean and auditable — not a pile of ad-hoc SQL nobody can trace back to a decision.
Full repo access, your own hosting accounts, no proprietary lock-in. If we ever part ways, your application ships with you — not held hostage.
Custom application work moves through the same four legs as every Tampa Forge project — just with more time spent charting the data model up front.
We map the workflows, entities, and integrations your app needs before writing a migration — and hand you a fixed price.
Core features first, in short sprints, with a clickable staging build you can log into from week one — not a black box until launch.
Automated tests around the business-critical paths, a staged rollout, and a calm launch day with no surprise downtime.
Laravel apps grow with your business. We're available for new features, scaling work, or a maintenance retainer once you're live.
The dividing line is genuinely about the shape of the problem, not the size of the budget.
A marketing site that also books, quotes, or gates content. This is most businesses, and it's plugin work.
A specific process to move off spreadsheets. A plugin ships it in weeks with an admin UI your staff already know.
Multi-tenant SaaS, heavy transaction volume, or an application whose primary job isn't publishing content.
Deep permission models and workflows that would fight WordPress's assumptions rather than build on them.
Describe what the system has to do. We'll give you the honest recommendation — including when that means the smaller WordPress project instead of the bigger build.
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