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hmm this is odd, isn't this the same as one of the many full stack boilerplate open source repositories [0][1][2][3] except closed source and 25$?

[0]: https://github.com/crsandeep/simple-react-full-stack

[1]: https://github.com/icebob/vue-express-mongo-boilerplate

[2]: https://github.com/jeroenouw/AngularMaterialFirebase

[3]: https://github.com/ablestack/nestjs-bff

There are many such boilerplates, but the concept is to have end-to-end integrated UI, datastore, dashboard, auth, analytics etc. and of course with dedicated support

Is this just a template for the landing page or is there a user section? I can't see any info on how to login to the demo app.

Also, it may just be me but the fact I would have to use Firebase scares me off this. I've heard more horror stories of seemingly minor Firebase usage generating massive bills than I have from the entire AWS system.

If you click on "Preview", there are "Sign up" and "Login" options to view a dashboard with notes.

Yea, Firebase has its downsides. But this is for quick prototyping for the many who want to jump right in to test the market. It's the fastest datastore/auth mechanism I chose to offer in the first instalment.

Definitely will be adding more variations with Mongo DB etc.

I assume this is somebody (possibly harishv7) who is just testing the market to see if anybody would by this. But as stefanmichael pointed out, there is no reason why anybody would need to buy this. There doesn't seem to be anything here that is unique and not freely available, with the support of a community of developers already working on it.

If I'm wrong, please let me know, but I'd suggest if you're going to take this approach, ask yourself why somebody would use (and pay for) whatever you're thinking of building, instead of what is already out there. Then, tell us what that is! Because that doesn't seem to be on the page.

I personally think these things have a future, but everyone is just marketing them at the wrong people. They're marketing them wrong, if you look at ecommerce, it's clear there is lots of companies that want to buy instead of build. For the majority of generic companies, it's literally not possible. It's not even possible to build the majority of the tooling/framework/generic business logic. I think projects that target developers as their core market will fail. Developers, even at companies, just don't have the budget to buy these things at the costs it would require to make them sustainable. They don't even have the authority to make such a decision, again look at ecommerce and look who decides what software gets bought and built upon; it's generally not the CTO. It's the CEO and COO. But of course, you need to have a professional level of support to make it worthwhile for the company to buy it. The upselling on this is also reasonably good again as seen by ecommerce and other areas.

Oh and one other thing, I think any solution that isn't as vast as the ecommerce solutions are to ecommerce will also fail. Most of these are generally very small and don't tackle any issues companies will have after the MVP stage.

(Disclosure, I'm working on such an application/business framework.)

Supercharge was built because I had a lot of requests as a developer to deliver the same things over and over again - Basic pages, a simple datastore, authentication, analytics, forms etc.

Yes, there are existing open source packages. But I couldn't find something which combined all of the above seamlessly with dedicated support for clients.

What you see in the "Preview" tab is only the first instalment of what's to come. In the coming days, there will be variations with different data stores, authentication mechanisms, quickstarts for mobile apps etc.

I have had a few sales and many further requests that have filled my backlog and I am working actively on it. The customers are usually early stage devs or students who want to learn how to build such apps.

Clicking on the big Preview button - the "Features" are all with the default lorem ipsum text. At the same time the supposed client testimonials are filled. Unprofessional at least?

The preview is a demo site. It's all just dummy data.

That's right!

All of those pages under "Preview" are all dummy. Everything is easily configurable in a config file. You can check this out: https://supercharge.dev/docs.html

Offtopic: The site uses payhip for payments, which I thought it was actually Gumroad as it uses the same loading spinner. Is there an affiliation between Gumroad and Payhip? Did they just copy Gumroad's checkout?

in its current state this is less feature-rich and more expensive than alternative react + auth boilerplates. Maybe this can be differentiated by adding some common SaaS features - eg billing plans, checkout, multi-tenancy

I am working on some of those features - payments, auth modes etc.

Thank you for the feedback! Will add it to the backlog!

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