Case Studies
Proof, not promises
Real engagements on live PHP, Laravel and Symfony applications — taken over, stabilised, modernised and extended without risky rewrites. The clients are anonymised because their systems are their business, but every number here comes from a production system we were responsible for.
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- maintenance & support
- modernisation & upgrades
- product development
- rescue & incident response
Maintenance & Support Laravel maintenance for two established travel websites
How we took ongoing technical ownership of two live Laravel travel websites — cutting a key search page from about 17 seconds to about 1 second along the way.
Maintenance & Support Stabilising an inherited Laravel platform nobody dared to restart
A half-finished Typo3-to-Laravel migration, a 15 GB repository and a production server nobody dared to reboot. Audit first — then backups, security fixes, Docker and ~500 tests.
Modernisation & Upgrades MySQL upgrade that cut about $10k a year in AWS costs
An outdated MySQL 5.7 database was quietly adding about $900 a month in AWS Extended Support fees. We planned and ran a safe upgrade to 8.0 around a live legacy application.
Modernisation & Upgrades SAP–Shopify sync rebuilt from legacy PHP to Symfony
Six storefronts depended on a fragile black-box sync with SAP. We took it over and replaced it step by step with a Symfony middleware — without stopping the business.
Maintenance & Support Culinary events platform: years of maintenance and a UK launch
We keep a Dutch culinary events platform stable through high-traffic ticket sales — and refactored its legacy Symfony core so the same system could launch in the UK.
Maintenance & Support 300,000-SKU product catalogue: instant search and stable syncs
A custom PHP product information system struggled under 300k+ SKUs: slow searches and fragile Shopify and Shopware syncs. We modernised it in place — no rewrite.
Modernisation & Upgrades REST API on a legacy Symfony app for a headless React frontend
Instead of rewriting a Symfony 3.4 events platform, we exposed its existing business logic through 20+ REST endpoints — unblocking a full React migration at a fraction of rewrite cost.
Product Development From no-code prototype to a production SaaS platform
A validated MVP built on Make, Bubble and Replit had hit its ceiling. We re-platformed it into a multi-tenant Symfony + React SaaS with a grounded AI content engine.
Product Development An AI legal-training MVP, live in about two weeks
Law students practise argumentation against AI judge personas grounded in real legal documents. We designed and shipped the production-ready MVP in roughly two weeks.
Maintenance & Support Keeping a Symfony 1 / PHP 5.4 website safely in business
A property website on Symfony 1 and PHP 5.4 still earned its keep. We maintain it carefully — SEO updates, feeds, cache issues — and brought production changes back under Git control.
Rescue & Incident Response The outage that wasn’t the application: a Route 53 DNS story
Internal business systems stopped resolving even though the servers were healthy. We traced the outage layer by layer to incomplete Route 53 delegation and restored access.
Maintenance & Support Technical SEO cleanup for two Laravel travel websites
After a difficult migration history, two travel websites had canonical, sitemap, redirect and indexation problems. We cleaned up the technical foundation as part of ongoing maintenance.
Product Development A real-time crypto signals SaaS on Symfony and ClickHouse
Tick-by-tick market data from major exchanges, analysed and delivered as trading signals in under half a second — through a web dashboard and a Telegram bot.
Product Development Monetising AI chatbots in WordPress — with no user accounts
Five AI personas, a freemium paywall and Nordic Swish payments — built as a custom WordPress plugin that charges users without ever asking them to register.
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