Ask HN: Best SaaS Boilerplate?

Basic account setup and payment integration (Stripe); ideally with accounts having multiple roles and members etc. Any language, but ideally Java or Python/Django etc.

A Python SaaSSaaS would be great. I find no-code too clunky.

Flask is to hard to setup. I setup a PHP server and dropped a PHP script in 30mins. Why can't I do the same with Python but with user mgt, auth and billing rolled in? sigh.

Personally looking forward to https://redwoodjs.com/ ... (JS/TS) and not out of the box Stripe integration but has most of the rest ready to go. Currently in v1-RC

Disclaimer: I'm the author of the following boilerplate.

Nodewood (https://nodewood.com/) is a Javascript SaaS boilerplate built to take advantage of using Javascript on the server and in the UI. Models, Validators, and other business logic can be re-used in both builds, so you don't have to write, rewrite, and maintain that logic in both places, or in different languages.

It has built-in subscription management (with Stripe), team management, roles and permissions, user management, an Admin Panel, a helper CLI tool, and more. It's in beta just now (with a corresponding 20% discount), but the only "missing piece" is an automated deploy system - the rest of it is in place and has been in use by customers for over a year now.

I'm the creator of https://www.saaspegasus.com/ and would love to have you as a customer, and very happy to answer any questions you have about the Pegasus product, community, etc.

That said, all of the popular boilerplates have been created by individuals or teams who are passionate about their frameworks (in my case Django) and have significant experience building products on top of them (in my case 10+ years). All of them will drastically reduce your time to MVP and likely be a better foundation than you'd author on your own.

I actually would choose a language/framework first and then choose a boilerplate based on that. The boilerplate will get you far, but ultimately you're still going to be doing lots more dev in the framework, so you should pick one you like. Django and Rails and to some extent Laravel are comparable - mature frameworks with lots of batteries included, mostly server-render HTML by default. JavaScript is its own separate beast with a more fractured ecosystem, but tighter integration with the front end. I'm obviously biased towards Python because it's a wonderful language to work with and has a great community and third-party package ecosystem. But honestly, any of these are great choices and will help you launch your first product way faster.

There's a huge list of SaaS boilerplates broken down by language available here: https://github.com/smirnov-am/awesome-saas-boilerplates

Good luck!