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Zefaro

Free local PHP & Laravel environment for Windows

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Zefaro serves each project folder at name.test on Windows. PHP 7.4 to 8.5 side by side, one-click HTTPS, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Redis, phpMyAdmin and Mailpit, plus tools for Laravel apps. Free and open source (MIT), no account, about 3 MB.

PH · launched Nov 10, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 65%) · 0 views

Niche: software development environments · 118 launches, 13 in the last 7 days ▲ +18% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags
  • Horizontal
  • Dev tools
  • Developer
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • Windows
  • Open Source
  • Developer Tools
  • GitHub

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Could you build this?

Partial The UI and orchestration are scriptable, but a reliable Windows dev environment needs side-by-side PHP runtimes, local DNS, trusted HTTPS certificates, and service management, which are systems-level and fiddly.

What it would actually take: The app bundles multiple PHP binaries, manages Windows services for MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and Redis, and runs a local DNS or hosts-file resolver for name.test domains. It installs a local certificate authority into the Windows trust store for HTTPS and fronts projects with a web server such as Caddy or Nginx. The hard parts are Windows-specific process, service, and certificate handling, which require systems programming experience on Windows.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 91 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #42 of 92 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 357 days after the earliest competitor.

  • SoftNix Server · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.66
  • lampRabit · ph · 2026-10-27 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
  • hyphp · github · 2026-09-28 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • laravel-http-mailer · github · 2026-10-31 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • Lumina · ph · 2026-10-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • PhpEZ · hn · 2026-08-29 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.46
  • Brewless · ph · 2026-11-03 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.45
  • Hosting-File-Manager · github · 2026-09-11 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.44

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