Hey HN,I've been building SaaS apps for 12 years and got tired of rebuilding the same things every time. Not only for products, but also internal tools in our organization.Things like admin panels, billing/credits, multi-organization support and even marketing pages are still surprisingly annoying and time-consuming to get right. Having these solved upfront makes a huge difference and you can...
Other than that automate more, be it with own tools or existing ones.
It become the #3 selling one (after Shipfast and Makerkit) in under 3 month.
I know the website itself is not the most descriptive, but I do prio feature and customer requests over website/marketing. Soon the starter kit will also have multi-organization support :)
2025 is gonna be interesting since I plan to add multiple boilerplates to the same package deal. Realized I'm not a business that needs to be greedy and grow, just helping others is enough.
Nice idea :) I think there is a small issue with converting \r\n into <br />.
Can't wait to see the leaderboard!
PS: Can you support 2 letter handles? Also converting links in the description would be nice.
After 7 years as the market leader you can expect
- $50 billion TAM => $100 million ARR
- $10 billion TAM => $20 million ARR
Usually you start with a small TAM so you can enter the market with some B2B sales. B2B sales are easier because you have a verify specific ideal customer profile (ICP). Later you can decide to expand your TAM so you can become interesting for VC funding. This is ideal for verticals like salons, restaurants, etc. and actually where the growth is at the moment.
Another approach is to just do something everyone needs but is annoying to handle yourself like AWS SES wrapper (Loops, Resend, ...) or Auth+Organizations (Clerk, Stack-Auth, ...). This is ideal if you target tech startups.
Another approach is to to combine two or more products into one. Requires a lot of code. This is super risky, but can be a gold mine if you target sales, marketing, HR, etc.
The last "approach" is special software for enterprise, but you need to work there to know what is needed. It is very hard to come up with an idea for special software. I know one startup who did this and the founder was writing his doctorate about a very niche enterprise topic.
PS: If you need a SaaS boilerplate, grab mine https://achromatic.dev (Next.js) to skip the first 2-3 months of your journey.
The idea is to provide a high quality boilerplate specifically for web apps.
More here: https://achromatic.dev/docs/tech-stack
Choice had a big impact, because I don't have to context switch, only have to implement validation once, can re-use a lot of the logic between frontend and backend and the UI part also looks neat. Furthermore with React server components and server actions a lot of the boilerplate code for an internal API is just.. gone. Super easy.
Now with Next.js 15 RC 2 and stable coming out next Friday, I'm in a very good position. Using the app router with Next.js 13 or Next.js 14 was like having warts. But now with Next.js 15 caching is good again and the speed improvements for dev mode were good enough to not bother me anymore.
It's no secret that you can target customers by niching down, but you sacrifice thinking too small.When in your opinion is the total addressable market too small?For me it's everything under $20 billion per year (USA).
Let's say A invites B to his organization. The invitation is tied to a specific email.How do you allow joining with Google or Microsoft, but they HAVE to choose this email from the invitation? Is there an authorization param I can set?Right now I only allow sign ups via credentials and allow the users to connect social accounts in the settings if they join an organization.
For example he https://x.com/dublxo will submit yours to 85 directories for $50-60 + testimonial on the website, but usual price is a bit higher. They are registered under your email, so you have to confirm the email sometimes. In the end you should change the passwords for all tho, but it still saves time.
PS: Ask for a list of directories.
Very easy and reliable.
Supported providers: https://authjs.dev/getting-started/providers/github
It's been really great so far and I can recommend it if you have a JS/TS codebase.
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You can test Auth.js (v5 beta.22) in my Next.js 15 boilerplate:
• Credentials auth
• Google and Microsoft login
• Connected accounts
• Multi-factor authentication (via authenticator app)
• Session management
Hard to compete and as a customer it's hard to choose another competitor because the current package includes just so much.
Just added MFA via authenticator apps + recovery codes today.
I suggest to add alternatives. Or do you only consider affiliates that offer your discount code?
Also I think email services and payments are missing.
- Sendgrid, Mailgun, Resend, Loops
- Stripe, Paddle
Would love to see boilerplates as well
If you are scared of abuse usw postfix+opendmarc (for sending), but IP/domain reputation takes time.
Otherwise one provider that offers sending+mailbox or two providers for the use-cases.