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Hopefully, you find this article useful! Let me know what you think. Thanks!
Hi, I created this plugin to help people with their support after spending 7 hours in a queue to get an answer to my (pretty simple and standard) question.

This tool has a lot of automation and customization, and it's not stupid as most chatbots.

If you have a website, you can create a chatbot even without registration, here: https://enumhq.com/test-drive

Let me know what you think.

Thanks!

Re:Show HN: SaaS application boilerplate on Monday December 23, 2019 @10:19PM (#21869592)
ORM is used in this boilerplate, and it's SQLAlchemy. I need to mention it somewhere.
Re:Show HN: SaaS application boilerplate on Thursday December 19, 2019 @11:09PM (#21841655)
Okay, I got your position. And thanks a lot for your efforts! I will contact you if I have questions/suggestions (I found your email at the end of the doc).
Re:Show HN: SaaS application boilerplate on Thursday December 19, 2019 @12:35PM (#21837127)
Thanks! Which stack do you use?
Re:Show HN: SaaS application boilerplate on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @05:36PM (#21830192)
Ok, thanks! I will consider adding teams.
Re:Show HN: SaaS application boilerplate on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @03:11PM (#21828870)
Thanks for your great comment.

You are not the first person who wants companies/teams. But I'm not sure I understand you well, guys. Can you give more details, with some examples, why and what it could be useful for?

Re:Show HN: SaaS application boilerplate on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @03:09PM (#21828858)
I know, I know!! I will include unit tests... some day... soon.
Re:Show HN: SaaS application boilerplate on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @03:08PM (#21828843)
Thanks for your opinion! It's probably more valuable for me than from people who like it :)

But you are a little bit wrong. Currently, it supports migrations and will support deployment very soon.

I don't agree about ReactJS and Webpack. I start using both in my projects and it didn't take too much time to learn them. Even if I don't know them deep I know them enough to use in the real projects.

I agree that currently, Django is more might than this project but it's just a beginning.

You are not right about modules too. It has nothing to do with Python's modules, I "invented" my own "modules" - it's just a combination of front-end code and Python API in one folder. And I created them to make the project more scalable. I don't know though if I gained this goal or not - yet.

Re:Show HN: SaaS application boilerplate on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @03:01PM (#21828760)
WOW! You put a lot of work into it, and I'm going to research it. Just wondering, what made you create this phenomenal work?
Re:Show HN: SaaS application boilerplate on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @12:15AM (#21822032)
I changed all those words to just MIT :)
Re:Show HN: SaaS application boilerplate on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @12:14AM (#21822024)
Update the license, now it's MIT.
Re:Show HN: SaaS application boilerplate on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @12:14AM (#21822021)
Okay, I put MIT license. I found this type of license is most appropriate for this product.
Re:Show HN: SaaS application boilerplate on Wednesday December 18, 2019 @12:06AM (#21821976)
Yeah, I'm thinking the same. I just didn't really have the time to put some standard one - was busy with all these comments!
Re:Show HN: SaaS application boilerplate on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @11:17PM (#21821738)
Looks interesting although it seems to me not SaaS-oriented.
Re:Show HN: SaaS application boilerplate on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @11:14PM (#21821725)
Thanks! It's a pity you gave it up, maybe you could create something really cool.
Re:Show HN: SaaS application boilerplate on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @08:50PM (#21821026)
To be honest, I don't know. Probably no - but maybe just because Java is much less popular language than Node and Python?
Re:Show HN: SaaS application boilerplate on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @08:48PM (#21821017)
Thanks for your idea! Btw I created a simple script that literally does the same - you just provide comments and it's sending to GitHub, rebuild the frontend and send command to deploy to AWS. But it's when I already set up everything. I'm thinking to automate much more - the WHOLE process of deployment, from the beginning, and actually, I already did it partially (you can find working snippets in the book). So, stay tuned to know when I implement it :)
Re:Show HN: SaaS application boilerplate on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @08:45PM (#21821000)
per project btw
Re:Show HN: SaaS application boilerplate on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @08:45PM (#21820997)
Hi Andrew!

Thanks for your great comment, really appreciate it!

You are right, I'm very excited on this experience! Even if it's not the first time when I publish my products here, I never had such level of attention.

Well, I'm looking right now from my personal point of view and your price looks "a little bit" high to me. I know I can do almost everything you already have in your project and maybe more, and if I would like to create my own SaaS right now, I wouldn't pay so much.

But if considers only corporate customers like established companies or well-funded startup, of course, your price is just nothing. The problem is I'm still looking for my niche, ideal customers etc. and I see this price is high for many of them.

My goal is to provide a democratic price that would be moderate for individuals and companies but would be different for them. I'm thinking to charge per seat as an individual can buy just one license and it will not be hard for him/her and companies would pay much more just because they would have more seats. But it's still plans (yet).

Thanks again for your advice and comment, good luck to you too!

Re:Show HN: SaaS application boilerplate on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @08:10PM (#21820826)
Thanks for sharing your thoughts and experience! Honestly, I don't know if teams and projects should be a part of SaaS. If so, in which context?

I wonder, how are you going to charge? Is your product is app or it's SaaS itself? And I think $9.99/month is very low price.

Any link to share? ;-)

Good luck!

Re:Show HN: SaaS application boilerplate on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @06:27PM (#21820153)
Yeah, I understand you. But you know what - I found if you would like to share your work with people in any way (open-source, commercial or whatever) it's much better to show it as soon as possible even if you think it's not ready yet.

Quote: If You're Not Embarrassed By The First Version Of Your Product, You’ve Launched Too Late :))) (Reid Hoffman, founder of Linkedin)

Re:Show HN: SaaS application boilerplate on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @06:15PM (#21820035)
Thanks! You know, deployment automation is one of my highest priority tasks. I even wrote a book on it (https://www.saasforge.dev/books/the-book-on-deployment) but I think it would be much better to add some scripts/automation into the boilerplate.
Re:Show HN: SaaS application boilerplate on Tuesday December 17, 2019 @06:12PM (#21820004)
Thanks for sharing your link. It looks pretty mature to me! But I see you put all parts separately in Github, is it more convenient?

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