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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!

ORM is used in this boilerplate, and it's SQLAlchemy. I need to mention it somewhere.

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).

Thanks! Which stack do you use?

Ok, thanks! I will consider adding teams.

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?

I know, I know!! I will include unit tests... some day... soon.

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.

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?

I changed all those words to just MIT :)

Update the license, now it's MIT.

Okay, I put MIT license. I found this type of license is most appropriate for this product.

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!

Looks interesting although it seems to me not SaaS-oriented.

Thanks! It's a pity you gave it up, maybe you could create something really cool.

To be honest, I don't know. Probably no - but maybe just because Java is much less popular language than Node and Python?

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 :)

per project btw

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!

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!

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)

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.

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?

Haha! But at least nobody would sue me for permitting improper using of it :-0

Thanks a lot for the great comment.

I totally agree about the functionality. Stripe integration will be the next feature I will add. And even so, I still believe this boilerplate can save you at least a week of work. I already used it for my other projects and I can confirm it.

Dashboard UI is already done and I'm going to add more modules/components to make it easier to use. Do you have any suggestions what it would be?

Laravel Spark is one of the resources for inspiration :))) I just didn't implement everything I would like to - yet.

I fixed the license, the boilerplate can be used for any purposes (except ones against the law) - this version. Because I'm working on the commercial extension of it - and it will be a completely separate story. But even with using of commercial modules (or version) you will be totally free to use it and it will be completely white-labeled.

Another situation when you are trying to modify and resell a product but it has nothing to do with making a SaaS, right?

THANKS!!

Thanks for the link - pretty interesting.

Scaffolding and other cool things for productivity accelerating are in our plans.

Check some of them on our website https://www.saasforge.dev in the "Coming soon" section.

What happened to it? Was it open-source or commercial?