Lumina
Free, open-source local PHP development environment.
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Lumina is a free, open-source local development environment for PHP. Run nginx or Apache, MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL and Redis, with automatictest sites and trusted HTTPS, on Windows, macOS and Linux.
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PH · launched Oct 16, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Horizontal
- Dev tools
- Developer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
- Open Source
- Developer Tools
- GitHub
- Development
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Partial The UI is simple, but reliably installing and managing nginx, MySQL, PostgreSQL and Redis with trusted local HTTPS across Windows, macOS and Linux takes systems-level and cross-platform expertise.
What it would actually take: Build a cross-platform desktop app (for example Go, Rust or Electron) that downloads, pins and supervises service binaries, generates a local CA and certificates, and manages hosts-file or DNS entries for test sites. The hard parts are OS-specific service management, certificate trust stores, port conflicts and upgrades across three operating systems. Expertise needed: systems and DevOps engineering, plus QA across platforms.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #24 of 51 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 264 days after the earliest competitor.
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