No, I have built everything myself over the default Laravel setup. I have found myself doing this over and over again for new projects, that's why I decided to

No, I have built everything myself over the default Laravel setup. I have found myself doing this over and over again for new projects, that's why I decided to turn it into a kit that I and other people could just use. This is going to be a fork and make it your own; once you get the code it's all yours. I may share security fixes as patch files maybe, but that'd be more of a manual work for everyone rather than an automated update mechanism.