Will mastering Bitrix24 give Laravel benefits to a freelancer?

Question

Bitrix24

My team specializes in the development of large portals on Laravel. Recently an idea came up - why not study Bitrix24, because for sure you can give the client the opportunity to integrate their portal with B24 and use B24 as even an admin panel. That is, it will be possible to earn money both on setting up Bitrix 24, and on selling boxes, and on setting up integration with the site, and on developing the site itself.
Or is the idea so-so and not worth the time to learn this technology and continue to explore your Laravel + frontend direction?

We just need the advice of implementers from Russia - is such a bundle in demand or is it completely different?

Do not offer Bitrix itself. we only work with Laravel.

Answer 1

Bitrix can be crossed with anything, but its ecosystem is self-sufficient. My opinion (and I have been implementing Bitrix24 since 2008, and Bitrix24 since its inception): you will not find such clients who want to pay for Bitrix24 as an admin panel for Laravel portals, because those who buy Bitrix24 understand its self-sufficiency, and do not will pay to satisfy your Laravel ambitions.

Answer 2

TLDR: If you are considering Bitrix24 (cloud) and your applications - the flag is in your hands. If you want to take a box and saw off the front of it, it’s better to give up this idea.

give the client the opportunity to integrate their portal with B24 and use B24 even as an admin panel.

When you talk about using B24 as an admin panel, you are very much mistaken. Bitrix24 is not 1C-Bitrix: Site Management, and your statement grows from the archaic "Let's take the BUS, leave the admin panel, write the public in XXX" (which were quite common purely with respect to the BUS about 5-10 years ago), but in B24 the public does not play a less important role than the admin panel (for example, there is simply no classic admin panel for the CPM module). By itself, the idea of ​​using Laravel not for separate parts but for the “front as a whole” is rather utopian.
This will not be a walk through documentation, with examples and a clear route.

That is, it will be possible to earn money both on setting up Bitrix 24, and on selling boxes, and on setting up integration with the site, and on developing the site itself.

Now that's a pretty good context.
If you study the Bitrix24 REST API, learn how to write applications for Bitrix24 itself, then your value as a company will only grow.
You will really get the opportunity to make money on creating a website AND make money on integration with Bitri24 AND selling cloud/boxed licenses AND setting up Bitrix24.
But you definitely shouldn’t get involved in the development of complex and non-standard box mechanics that cannot be done without code customization. There, the Laravel experience will only get in the way.