I Built a Job Platform With Laravel 13, Livewire 4, and GPT-5 — Here's What I Learned

TL;DR I'm building UWork.kz - a local services marketplace in Kazakhstan. The stack: Laravel 13 + Livewire 4 + Alpine.js + Tailwind CSS (the TALL stack), with GPT-5 handling SEO content and smart internal linking. In this post I'll break down the architecture decisions, the trade-offs, and the things that surprised me along the way. Why TALL Stack in 2026? Every second de.to post right now is about Next.js, Nuxt, or some React meta-framework. Fair enough - they're great tools.