Get NGO St Pete is a community platform for the St. Petersburg, Florida area — community shop, custom orders, Facebook Marketplace integration, and a deliberately in-person sales model. The site is the catalog and the interest-capture surface; the closing happens face to face, the way the local market actually works.

Surfaces

• Community Shop — furniture and household goods catalog, photographed and listed for browse-then-pickup flow rather than ship-anywhere e-commerce.
• Custom Orders — request channel for specific community needs the shop can source against.
• Facebook Marketplace integration — the FB page is where most of the eyeballs are; the site backs it up with a fuller catalog and a contact path that doesn't require a Messenger account.
• Light + dark theming — Blade templates with hand-written CSS/JS and a clean theme toggle, no framework heaviness.

What's underneath

Laravel 12 + Filament 3 for the admin, PHP 8.3 + SQLite, Apache + mod_php in production behind Certbot SSL. Postmark handles inbound and outbound mail. Backups roll daily under a grandfather-father-son rotation off-site to a sister deployment, so the catalog and request log are recoverable independent of the host.

Why Laravel here?

Filament 3 makes the admin essentially free for a CRUD-heavy catalog + leads system, and the operator side wanted a familiar Laravel surface for ongoing edits. The single-Go-binary pattern wins on small-operator landing sites; this one earns its framework on the volume of admin views.