Just about anything, but a good ground work in php would help.

You can create any modern type of website with the laravel framework, which is suitable for the small and large scale projects. With this versatile framework, you can build any kind of web applications like, Social network, password manager, monitoring tool or whatever with it.

And if you ask, why should I choose Laravel, then the answer would be, Laravel makes it easier for you to develop & maintain any high quality web applications with minimal fuss, also it saves your time & effort and makes web development a joy.

It's MVC architecture is great from a developer’s perspective, and its convenient shortcuts for frequent programming tasks, clear conventions for how to solve the problems, and it's tightly integrated unit testing support give you the tools you need to build any application.