I built a verified launch registry for Laravel. Here's why.

Every launch directory I've ever used had the same problem: I couldn't tell which projects were still alive.

Product Hunt, GitHub trending, the dozens of "awesome lists" — they all have their place. But when I wanted to see what indie Laravel developers were actually shipping, I kept hitting the same wall: beautiful cards linking to apps that no longer exist. Directories rot because listing something dead costs nothing.

So I built Shipped — a launch registry for Laravel projects where every entry is verified to be actually running. It's free, and it lives at larashipped.laravel.cloud.

What it does

The idea is simple. You record your project, write a short release story, and point Shipped at your live *.laravel.cloud URL. Before anything goes public, Shipped checks that the app is genuinely up: it resolves DNS, probes the origin without credentials, refuses off-origin redirects, and matches the Cloud slug against the live hostname. If the check passes, you get a publishable launch page — and a "LIVE ON CLOUD" badge you can drop into your README.