Ask HN: A SaaS template for new products? Cut dev time to 1 week?

Posted by amukbils on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @03:24PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I have lots of ideas and I want to try them out. Some of the are rather small and some are big, but they all need: 1. Auth 2. Subscription 3. Dashboard

Is there an easy way to basically scaffold an entire SaaS project to cut development time to 1 week and focus only on building the product, not all the other stuff?

Using Auth0 and Stripe and what not does cut dev time but still requires a lot of work for a new project.

Any ideas?

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Re:Ask HN: A SaaS template for new products? Cut dev time to... by tluyben2 on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @03:29PM (#33614580)

There are many saas starter kits: some free, most paid. There are very complete ones which will safe you from having to do any saas plumbing like you say.

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Re:Ask HN: A SaaS template for new products? Cut dev time to... by amukbils on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @03:31PM (#33614607)

Great. Maybe the term "SaaS starter kit" is what I should be searching for. That's helpful. Thank you.

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Re:Ask HN: A SaaS template for new products? Cut dev time to... by tluyben2 on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @03:33PM (#33614635)

Here is one that I ran into a few days ago on HN: it seems very complete. I have no affiliation but it just seems more complete than others I ran into.

https://saasrock.com/

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Re:Ask HN: A SaaS template for new products? Cut dev time to... by amukbils on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @03:45PM (#33614770)

Too expensive, too limited in stack :/

Definitely valueable but I feel it's not been cracked quite yet.

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Re:Ask HN: A SaaS template for new products? Cut dev time to... by tluyben2 on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @03:49PM (#33614823)

Yes, I see your point. The pricing is definitely on the very high side compared to the others.

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Re:Ask HN: A SaaS template for new products? Cut dev time to... by bambataa on Tuesday November 15, 2022 @04:04PM (#33614983)

Why not do all that for one of your small ideas, spend a big of time making it configurable and repeat for the next one?

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Re:Ask HN: A SaaS template for new products? Cut dev time to... by amukbils on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @07:41AM (#33622103)

I'm growing more frustrated every time I have to do this. So I'm really thinking about building a premium starter kit and pricing it for anyone else like me as well.

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Re:Ask HN: A SaaS template for new products? Cut dev time to... by czue on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @02:20AM (#33619954)

The best listing of these I've found is here: https://github.com/smirnov-am/awesome-saas-boilerplates

I believe they are listed in ~order of popularity/maturity by framework. Or at least the top 1-2 in each framework are the ones I've heard the most about.

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Re:Ask HN: A SaaS template for new products? Cut dev time to... by amukbils on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @07:42AM (#33622107)

Thank you!!!

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Re:Ask HN: A SaaS template for new products? Cut dev time to... by kylegawley on Wednesday November 16, 2022 @08:31PM (#33633730)

There are quite a few starter kits, for various stacks.

I built https://usegravity.app for React/Node

SaaS Pegasus is a good one for Python: https://www.saaspegasus.com/

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