Why use Laravel for custom development?

Three reasons. First, Laravel ships with everything a custom application needs (auth, queues, billing, real time, admin, scheduling, mail) so engineers focus on what makes your application unique. Second, Laravel has a huge talent pool (1.5 million plus live applications worldwide) so hiring engineers post launch is easier than with niche stacks. Third, Laravel scales well from prototype to enterprise, so you do not rewrite when growth arrives. Forge, Vapor, and AWS give a clean upgrade path.