Yerd
Local PHP, without the friction - rootless, open-source, and no Docker in sight! The open-source alternative to Laravel Herd!
What this is
An open-source, Docker-free local PHP environment for macOS and Linux — automatic HTTPS, per-site PHP versions, zero-config sites. A direct alternative to Laravel Herd for developers.
Our one-line summary — not the founder’s tagline.
- How it works
- A local PHP development environment: park a folder and every project inside becomes instantly live at .test; issues per-site HTTPS certificates automatically; installs multiple PHP versions side by side, pinned per site; runs MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, Redis and an SMTP catcher as native processes supervised by one daemon; streams Laravel dump()/dd(), queries, jobs and requests to a dedicated window.
- What's different
- Open-source, rootless and Docker-free — a direct alternative to Laravel Herd, MIT licensed with every feature included.
- Pricing
- Open-source, no subscription.
- Best for
- macOS and Linux developers running local PHP/Laravel projects who want to avoid Docker.
What we measured
Nobody else publishes this — it comes from knocking on the door every day.
- Watched by us
- 18 days
- Last checked
- 2d ago
Where it shows up
Every group here is a page of its own — each one checked daily.
The numbersIs it still shipping, is it overpriced, where did it land — and what the price is built from.
League price & chart
No money. No seat. It goes on your record — and in 28 days reality settles it.
Calls are closed while we rebuild accounts. You can still read every one of them.
Dev. Launched 18d ago on Devhunt, picking up 2 votes. Today, it's been quiet for 15 days and the price has started to bleed.
Already bleeding a little every day, and it accelerates the longer it stays quiet.
We check this site every day, ourselves. A founder can post “still working on it” — a claim like that doesn't price. What we price is what we can verify from the outside: evidence, not announcements. The real question isn't “will this be huge?” — it's “will they still be moving in four weeks?”
The market viewHow this launch is priced and ranked in our league — the investor side of the page.
ranked by the reality anchor, not the market price
It launched on Devhunt with 2 votes. It also showed up on 1 other board — but didn't place well enough on any of them, so none of them add to the price. Listing on twelve directories is free; placing well on them isn't.
No matter how much money goes in. There is no pump here — you can't make yourself right by buying more. The line only moves on things that actually happened: an award, revenue that grew, a new platform, code that shipped — or silence.
En eski 5 hareket bu listede yok — toplam 17 olay var. A launch that goes quiet eases down a little at a time — never a cliff you could have run from the night before.
How the launch is moving on its own board, day by day — the crowd's attention.
A flat line is normal: votes stop within a day or two of launch, on every board. What's unusual — and what actually counts — is a launch that keeps pulling votes long after its day is over.
About
Yerd is a fast, open-source local PHP development environment for macOS and Linux - a Laravel Herd alternative with every feature in the box, MIT licensed. Zero-config sites. Park a folder and every project inside is instantly live at .test, or link a single directory under any name. Automatic HTTPS. A local certificate authority issues per-site certificates on demand. No mkcert, no OpenSSL, no browser warnings. Per-site PHP versions. Install multiple PHP versions side by side as isolated static builds. Set a global default, pin per site, update in place. Everything supervised by one tiny daemon. MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and Redis as native processes. A built-in SMTP catcher for outgoing mail. Composer, Node, and Bun managed on your PATH. Laravel telemetry, live. dump()/dd(), queries, jobs, requests, logs, and outgoing HTTP streamed to a dedicated window with zero code changes. Rootless by design. Setup elevates exactly once. After that, the daemon, CLI, and tray app never run as root. The whole runtime is a single ~8 MB Rust binary - no Docker, no VM, no Electron, no subscription.
Where it launched
2 platformsThe board it did best on sets the price. Every other board only adds to it if the launch also placed high on that board too — because just showing up somewhere isn't an achievement. Listing on twelve directories is free; placing well on them isn't.
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