Today I Shipped a Laravel App. It’s Live!

After weeks of planning, building, fixing bugs, and learning more than I ever expected, I finally launched my first Laravel project into the wild. The Hope for the Forgotten Outreach website is now live, and I’m honestly so pumped (and a little relieved) to say that out loud.

This wasn’t just another dev project — it’s a site that matters. It's for a ministry that’s doing real work, reaching real people. That gave every line of code a little more weight.

What I Built

The new Hope for the Forgotten Outreach site is clean, easy to navigate, and built entirely with Laravel, Blade, Livewire, Tailwind CSS, and Filament.

It’s simple by design. I wanted the focus to be on the mission and the stories — not on a bunch of bells and whistles.

Visitors can:

• Learn what the ministry is all about
• See where they serve
• Read testimonies
• Contact the team or donate

And thanks to Filament, the team has a friendly backend to update content and keep things fresh without needing me every time.

What I Learned

Shipping this app taught me a ton:

• Filament is amazing for building admin panels fast
• Clean Blade layouts go a long way in making a site feel cohesive
• Deployment with Forge takes patience, but once it clicks, it’s powerful
• And GitHub + Laravel + Forge is a workflow I’ll be sticking with

More than anything, I’m proud of what I built, and I already see ways I want to keep improving it.

Why This Project Matters

Hope for the Forgotten Outreach is a ministry I believe in. They serve people who often get overlooked. Getting to help tell that story through the site was a huge honor.

This is the kind of work I want to keep doing — using code to support the Kingdom in ways that are practical and powerful.

So yeah, the site’s live.
My first Laravel app is out there in the world.
And I’m just getting started.