Yerd
Local PHP, without the friction - rootless, open-source, and no Docker in sight! The open-source alternative to Laravel Herd!
Hype can't move this line. Only verifiable outcomes do.
No money. No seat. It doesn't move the price. It goes on your record — and in 28 days reality settles it.
by reality anchor — the price money can't pump
Dev. Launched 6d ago on Devhunt, picking up 2 votes. Today, it's live, but nothing on the site has changed since we started watching. It's anchored at 300 pts.
It launched on Devhunt with 2 votes. It also showed up on 1 other board — but didn't place in the top 25% on any of them, so none of them add to the price. Listing on twelve directories is free; placing well on them isn't.
A launch's opening price comes from where it placed on its own board, normalised across all 12 platforms we watch. That's deliberate: #1 on a small board beats #40 on a huge one. It's how a launch nobody saw can still be worth more than one everybody did.
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.
Quiet for 3 days — no penalty yet. Bleeding begins on day 7.
We fetch this site every day and hash what's on it. A founder can post “still working on it” — but if they actually shipped, the page changes. That's the only claim we price: evidence, not announcements. The real question isn't “will this be huge?” — it's “will they still be moving in four weeks?”
The story so farEVERY MOVE, AND WHY▾
Repriced every day, no cliffs. A launch that goes quiet bleeds a little at a time, so there's never a drop you could have run from the night before.
Momentum on its boardDOESN'T MOVE THE PRICE▾
How the launch is moving on its own board, day by day. This is the crowd's attention — it does not move the reality price. Only verifiable outcomes do.
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.
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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 launched2 PLATFORMS▾
The board it did beston sets the price. Every other board only adds to it if the launch also landed in that board's top 25% — because just showing up somewhere isn't an achievement. Listing on twelve directories is free; placing well on them isn't.