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The Lab
The lab is our public roadmap. Some of the ideas and experiments here will turn into new products in the Scalpels catalog, but they will all add to the collective knowledge and understanding of how AI, Laravel Cloud, and open-source make up the foundation of app development in 2026 and beyond.
The Campfire-Rust port got onto Cloud through the Go runtime, and we wanted to know whether that was a Rust trick or a general one. It is general. Thirty-eight environments later we have one line that kills any VM on Cloud, one framework manifest that refuses a deploy outright, and a packaging shape that two separate teams invented on the same night.
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It runs, it costs about a fifth of what the Rails version costs, and it has its own working websockets. Getting there took a wrong premise, a Go launcher, a byte-level rewrite in front of our HTTP parser, and then doing the whole thing again properly on the runtime that had been there the whole time.
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Campfire now runs on Laravel Cloud, on Postgres, a bucket and managed websockets, with about a dozen lines changed in upstream files. Getting there took eighteen deploys, one IPv6 surprise and a new transport for Action Cable.
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Rust just landed in early access on Laravel Cloud, days after 37signals released a Rust port of Campfire that is up to 95 times faster than the Rails app. We just got the Rails version running on Cloud. How much of that fight do we have to have again?
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Caleb Porzio showed off a storyboard editor where you type what you want and get polished motion graphics. The catch is that it runs on the API, and that gets expensive fast. What if the same editor drove Claude Code through Solo instead?
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We just got early access to Ruby on Laravel Cloud, and 37signals open-sourced Campfire. It was built to run on one box you own, which is about as far from a managed cloud as you can get. How much has to change?
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Every idea here gets tried for real: deployed, broken, fixed and written up. Right now that is one person doing the work between everything else, and supporters are what buy the time. As support grows, it will also pay freelancers to run experiments of their own, so more of these ideas get tested, sooner.
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