Founded in Macedonia and the magic behind it

G6 is not just a software development company or just a startup.

Over the years we have proven ourselves as huge supporter of the Macedonian startup community. The list of projects for the community in which we participated and contributed is huge, but recently was enriched with one more, with which we are extremely proud.

Part of our team, together will the incomparable support from Mitko Cabeski, realized the project called “Founded in Macedonia”, which represents a web directory of Macedonian startups, as part of the global initiative to celebrate local innovative startups FoundedX.

Thanks to this initiative, Macedonia is now part of the small but important FoundedX family together with 21 other countries, such as Switzerland, Austria, Belgium and Denmark.

When it comes to the realization of our ideas, we always pay attention to the planning and carefully choose the “gear” we are going to use. Although “Founded in Macedonia” is technically a small project, there are many possibilities for it to grow up.

Another thing is that we love the whole open source software “state of mind”. We use open source libraries and tools everyday no matter what we’re working on and it always feels great to give something back to the community.

We took a look at the available solutions for managing such web site and found out that there are two of them developed in Python. Python is great, but what we saw here is another opportunity to contribute and help even more people. That’s how we decided to develop another solution using PHP.

PHP is the most widely used programming language in the world for developing web applications that powers more than 80% of all web sites spreaded over the internet. If you’re following the trends, you must have heard of Laravel – “ The PHP Framework for web artisans”. We chose Laravel because it is great exactly for what we needed here – it works great when the project is still small but gives us the ability to easily extend the project later and add new features as needed.

The source of the application is available for everyone on GitHub. We encourage everyone who has any idea or find a bug to contribute by forking the repository, submitting pull requests or reporting new issues.

If you consider yourself as a “Laravel artisan”, and want to try out what it is like to be a part of an awesome team like ours don’t hesitate to “wave to us” at join@g6solutions.com.

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