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Ask HN: What are some good modern SaaS starter boilerplates?

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Starting a new SaaS project always requires the same basic features:

- signup with e-mail confirmation - login - rbac - etc.

A 'long' time ago I used the 'hackathon starter' by sahat. With all the progress in web dev, this doesn't feel like a modern stack anymore in 2024.

So I was wondering, are there any starters you'd recommend others on HN?

In order to make this post as useful as possible for others, feel free to post paid and free projects in any language and framework you like. Might be useful to start responses with 'language - framework - paid/free' so people can easily scan for what they prefer.

Also, if you're going to promote your own project, please be transparent about that!

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Most boilerplates like shipfast and others focus waaaaaaaay too much on the landing page, leaving you with abysmal SaaS functionality. Yes you can "launch fast" but what are you launching exactly?

If you're serious about building a web app (not landing page with some gimmicks) check out Achromatic.

Website:

https://achromatic.dev

"Acme" demo:

https://demo.achromatic.dev/

Packed with essential features (~40k SLOC) and updated frequently with a focus on quality over quantity. It's built with Next.js 15, React 19, Auth.js 5 and shadcn/ui - fully embracing RSC and server actions. Besides that I'm adding regularly important application components like TreeView, ColorPicker, RichTextEditor or InputPassword:

https://achromatic.dev/docs/components

It's fairly new, I've launched it less than 3 weeks ago, but already got over 40 customers in that short amount of time. I run a SaaS myself and took quite a lot of components from there and also help customers/partners getting their SaaS started via Google Meet. Also there are 4 freelancers in the US, Germany, India and France who use the boilerplate for their client projects. The license is very business-friendly and allows unlimited developers and projects.

You demo site should not require a login, I'm not giving oauth access to a product I may or may not be interested in.

Gotcha, good point. It doesn't request any sensitive scopes tho. There is also credentials login.

I think this is the largest list https://github.com/smirnov-am/awesome-saas-boilerplates

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