Laravel SaaS development by a senior freelance developer
A SaaS product needs sign-up, teams, subscriptions, billing, background jobs, an admin area and a way to deploy it before a single customer can pay. I build that, from the first screen to the invoice, for founders with no developer of their own and for teams that want a senior developer alongside their own.
I'm all in on AI. It lets me get through a lot of work in a short time, and I stay careful about the code and about what goes live. I have built and run SaaS products of my own, and I wrote Rapid SaaS with Laravel, a book about exactly this.
I usually reply within one working day.
What goes into a SaaS product
The parts every SaaS needs before it can take money, and the ones that come after.
Accounts, teams and roles
Sign-up, login, email verification, password reset, two-factor, team invitations, roles and permissions. Jetstream or Fortify gets you most of the way; the rest is your product's rules.
Subscriptions and billing
Plans, trials, upgrades and downgrades, invoices, failed payments and dunning. Stripe or Paddle with Cashier or Spark. Paddle handles VAT and invoices as the merchant of record, which matters if you sell worldwide.
Usage, credits and limits
Whatever your product meters, whether that is seats, credits, API calls or storage, it has to be counted, limited, shown to the customer and tied to billing. I have built this for products that bill by the minute.
Background jobs and queues
Emails, imports, exports, AI calls, webhooks from your payment provider. All of it runs in queues with Horizon, retries on failure, and shows up in a dashboard when something goes wrong.
An admin area you can run the business from
See customers, subscriptions and usage, impersonate a user to reproduce a problem, adjust a plan, refund a payment. The admin area is where you live after launch, so it gets built properly.
Deployment, monitoring, backups
Forge and Hetzner or AWS, zero-downtime deploys, error tracking, uptime monitoring, and backups that are tested. From day one, not after the first outage.
How I work
You don't need to have everything figured out before we talk. An idea, access to the repo, a screen recording or a list of problems is enough. I look at what is there, tell you what I would do and what it costs, and then I build it.
I use Claude Code, Codex and my own agent workflows for reading code, planning changes, writing tests, refactoring and debugging. It is not vibe coding. It is senior engineering with a much faster loop.
AI-first, on a stack I know inside out
Claude Code, Codex and my own agent workflows write a large share of the code. Because I have built the account, billing and queue parts of a SaaS many times, I know exactly what to ask for and what to check, which is why a first paying version comes together fast.
I stay in control
AI writes a lot of my code. I still make every technical decision, read every change before it ships, and test it. Fast, but meticulous: the speed is only worth something if what goes live is right.
The way you want to work
Some clients want to look at every change before it goes live, others want me to deploy. Some want a weekly call, most prefer written updates. I work well asynchronously, and I still ask the important questions when they come up.
I think like an owner
I still run my own online products. So when I build or fix yours, I think about traffic, conversion, revenue and support as much as about the code, and I tell you when something is not worth building.
Ways to work with me
Fixed price, a flat monthly rate, or hourly. It's always me doing the work, not an agency. If you're not sure, describe what you need and I'll suggest one.
Examples of my work
SaaS products I have built.
AI agents, scraping, teams and billing
A B2B product in Laravel and Vue: team accounts with Jetstream, subscriptions and credits with Spark and Paddle, background jobs on Redis and Horizon, and workflows that run several AI models across Anthropic, OpenAI, Google and xAI.
Market data, triggers and AI reports
Users define workflows over instruments and portfolios, the product watches market data, and reports are generated when something changes. Credits, Stripe billing, queues and background execution included.
Try before you buy, then subscribe
A reverse-lookup product where visitors can try the service before creating an account, then move into a Stripe subscription with self-service plan changes.
What clients say
"He started by really digging into our requirements, asking clarifying questions until he had a solid understanding. He then built exactly what was needed and kept us informed throughout."
"Vincent does not just close tickets, he thinks through the product, the edge cases, and the customer impact. If you need a senior Laravel developer who can move a SaaS product forward, I strongly recommend him."
"He doesn't need micromanagement - he's fully capable of making decisions and driving the project forward, which has freed me up to focus on other parts of the business."
Questions
How long until customers can pay?
That depends on the product, but the parts around it are known: accounts, teams, billing, admin, deployment. I have built them many times, and with AI tooling they go fast. I tell you what it would take after a short brief.
Which billing provider should I use?
Stripe or Paddle, with Cashier or Spark. Paddle handles VAT and invoices as the merchant of record, which saves you a lot of accounting if you sell to other countries. I have shipped both.
Do you also build the frontend?
Yes. Vue with Inertia and Tailwind most of the time, React if that is what you have.
Can you take over a SaaS that someone else started?
Yes. I read what is there, tell you what I would keep and what I would change, and continue from there.
What about the parts that are specific to my product?
That is the interesting part, and it is where the time should go. The generic parts are fast because I have done them before; your product's own logic gets my attention.
Do you keep working on it after launch?
Most clients keep me on after launch. Some hand over to their own team, and then I make sure the handover is clean.
Get a quote
What the product does, who pays for it, and what exists already. A few sentences are enough. I'll reply with how I would build it and what it would cost.
If you would rather talk first, book a 30-minute call.