What's the best SaaS starter kit for indie makers?

aren't you a founder of one? :)

what is the real goal of this post? gauge the market? somehow funnel to your thing? (honestly curious)

//edit I see you already used another account to answer yourself with recommendation of your product

IDK if the solopreneur thing has intensified so much recently, but almost every time I see a thread like that, here or on reddit, it's posted by the creator of the tool and he somehow tries to sneak his product in

for anyone browsing for a starter kit I recommend laravel with a starter kit and laravel stripe package: https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/starter-kits + https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/billing

The standard answer is "whichever one uses the tech stack you already know".

If you don't already know a tech stack, just pick one and learn it. Then you do know one and can re-use it as you wish.

But "best" is such a subjective term, it always depends on what you really need. Better to pick one and run than get caught in analysis paralysis.

Stay away from https://shipped.club. Even the founder (OP) doesn't want to use it.

Not exactly a starter kit, but something I think could be useful during early development: Noop Workshop [1]. Full disclosure I work @ noop.

One of the primary benefits is you can quickly explore what Cloud components you need (locally) before purchasing them. We also built a bunch of templates in different languages that act as application boilerplate.

If it works the way you want in Workshop you can launch right to the cloud. If not it's easy to find alternative hosts for the different components. After all, Noop uses many AWS services under the hood.

The interface for local development is almost identical to the cloud interface, so it will give you a pretty clear idea of what the experience will be like in deployed environments.

1. https://noop.dev

This question has come up many times (here's one thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30807759)

Like others have said, pick the tech you want to use first, then find a good one that uses that tech! I would look for reviews, a history of updates, and a founder who knows their stuff.

There's many directories listing them - probably the most comprehensive one is here: https://github.com/smirnov-am/awesome-saas-boilerplates

Good luck!

"language you know" saas starter kit, get to the github repo and search for issues/activity (remember to include closed issues when you are looking)

A better question would be: what should I look for in a SaaS starter kit?

You will get a lot of opinionated responses, but for me at least, what I'm most interested in:

- admin dashboard

- ability to integrate/generate different billing/invoice/payment options

- multiuser strategy

- deploy options

I maintain a good list of modern fullstack boilerplates at https://www.builtatlightspeed.com/category/fullstack

There is no best one. You will unfortunately (!) need to do some legwork to decide what you want to build, what you need, what tech you want to use and why, and see if there is a starter kit that is good or if you have to just do without one.

Is the chosen starter kit good? Clues may lie in licenses, the repo if source is available, if paid is there a money back guarantee, is it maintained, is the code any good (do they know what they are doing?). Does it meet your functional and nonfunctional requirements?

Take this as advise for a lonely programmer OR (!) user feedback for your gig (!!) ;)

https://github.com/NextJSTemplates/startup-nextjs

The sole purpose of these types of questions is to allow the questioner or others to push their products.

Definitely https://shipflask.com ;)

Check out https://boilerplatehub.com/

That's a nice selection of Starter Kits.

If you are working with or building an API, Treblle has a really good free tier, plus completely free apps (no login required) - API Insights and Aspen API testing.

A free one on github.