One year of Filament Mastery - A personal look back at 2025

About a year ago, I launched Filament Mastery with a pretty simple goal: create a place around FilamentPHP that I would genuinely enjoy reading myself.

No hype, no endless tutorials rewritten ten times, no over-engineered examples, just clear, useful content for developers building things with Filament.

As 2025 comes to an end, this felt like the right moment to pause for a bit and look back at what Filament Mastery has become over its first year.

Filament Mastery in numbers

I usually don’t obsess too much over metrics, but numbers can still tell part of the story.

After one year, Filament Mastery looks like this:

• 347 community members
• 274 newsletter subscribers
• 35 published articles
• 12 community links
• 4 partners supporting the project

They’re just numbers, but behind them are real people reading, learning, experimenting, and building things with Filament.

A community that goes beyond borders

One thing that surprised me early on was how international the audience became.

Looking at the dashboard, users are spread across many different time zones. Some of that data isn’t perfectly accurate (a lot of users are still grouped under UTC), but the overall trend is clear:
Filament Mastery is being read all over the world.

Different countries, different projects, different levels of experience — but the same interest in building solid back-offices with Filament.

What this year taught me

Working on Filament Mastery over the past year reinforced a few things I already suspected:

• Developers value clarity more than complexity.
• Not every problem needs a clever abstraction or a custom solution.
• Filament works best when you lean into its conventions instead of fighting them.
• Writing content that you would actually use is usually the right approach.

I intentionally kept Filament Mastery focused and calm. No rush to publish, no pressure to cover everything, just content that feels useful and honest.

A sincere thank you

Even though I’m writing this from a personal perspective, Filament Mastery wouldn’t exist without the people reading it and writing.

So thank you, whether you’ve read one article, subscribed to the newsletter, shared a link, wrote an article or simply bookmarked the site and come back from time to time.

Where to follow Filament Mastery

If you’d like to stay updated, share content, or help the community grow, you can also find Filament Mastery on:

• X.com
• Dev.to
• Facebook
• LinkedIn

Following and sharing helps more than you might think.

Looking ahead to 2026

I don’t have a big roadmap or ambitious promises for 2026 — and that’s very much on purpose.

Most of what I share on Filament Mastery comes directly from real client projects.
Things I actually use, patterns that work in practice, and decisions made under real-world constraints. I usually avoid diving too deep into heavy concepts like strict DDD or over-abstracted architectures, not because they’re wrong, but because they often add complexity and make articles harder to read and reuse.

My goal is to keep sharing practical ideas that you can adapt easily, without forcing a specific methodology or way of thinking.

I also want Filament Mastery to stay open and community-driven.
Anyone can write and publish content directly from their member area, and this will remain free. No paywalls, no hidden requirements, just useful content shared by people building real things.

On a more personal note, 2026 will also be a bit different for me. I’m planning to spend around six months in Europe, and if the opportunity comes up, I’ll try to attend local meetups or events. Nothing official or planned yet, just a chance to meet people from the community in real life.

For now, the direction stays simple: build, learn, share and keep things approachable.

Thanks for being part of this first year, and see you in 2026 🚀