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Jason McCreary.

Built Shift the night Taylor Otwell said he would use a Laravel upgrade automator. Ten years later he still runs it solo, a few hours of morning support, no employees, no investors, ~$100/mo overhead against $50k+ MRR.

x.com/jasonmccrearylaravelshift.com
$50,000MRR · Jun 30, 2026
1Active products
0Retired products
0Employees
2015First launch
1Sourced datapoints

Revenue History.

EVERY ROW SOURCED · CSV ↓

Not enough dated datapoints yet for a chart — see the table.

DateMRRKindSource
Jun 30, 2026$50,000InterviewSource →

Products.

1 ACTIVE · 0 RETIRED
● ACTIVE

Shift

Automates upgrading Laravel apps between major versions: connect a repo, get a pull request of atomic commits.

Stack — what they build with

PHPLaravelTailwind CSSStripeCloudflareDigitalOcean

Lessons — worth stealing

ALL SOURCED
L-01

Ship it. Shift was buggy at launch. I knew it. I shipped anyway.

SRC: Source → · Jun 30, 2026
L-02

It's okay to stay small. Freedom is the goal. Not the exit.

SRC: Source → · Jun 30, 2026