This is great. Thank you so much!!
One request is to include some recommended production deployment. I have spent way too much time on devops every time I start on my weekend project.
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#32Having "Open Source" in the name is slightly misleading... > License > Copyright (c) 2019 SaaS Forge Inc. https://www.saasforge.dev . You can use this template for any purposes except reselling or purposes prohibited by law.
Fixed! But I still left the part about not using the code for purposes prohibited by law...
It would be interesting to see a court case in which the offender violates this clause of the license.
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#33Earlier quoted context omitted.
Fixed! But I still left the part about not using the code for purposes prohibited by law...
It would be interesting to see a court case in which the offender violates this clause of the license.
Haha! But at least nobody would sue me for permitting improper using of it :-0
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#34Looks great! I also recently worked on a similar project, Staart (https://staart.js.org) but with a Node.js and Vue.js stack using TypeScript.
It has typical SaaS features like onboarding, API gateway, social auth, Stripe recurring billing, teams, etc.
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#35Nice! I have a similar boilerplate that I've built for myself (there's no client-side), Flask with JWT, login, logout, etc. The React UI looks really nice here.
Thanks! Do you have your boilerplate on Github or anywhere else?
No, I haven't felt like it's really ready for anyone else to use. Just something I use as a shortcut when starting new projects. I ought to go through it and clean it up and put it out there though.
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#36Looks great! I also recently worked on a similar project, Staart ( https://staart.js.org ) but with a Node.js and Vue.js stack using TypeScript. It has typical SaaS features like onboarding, API gateway, social auth, Stripe recurring billing, teams, etc.
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?
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#37This is great. Thank you so much!! One request is to include some recommended production deployment. I have spent way too much time on devops every time I start on my weekend project.
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.
Re: Show HN: SaaS application boilerplate
#38Having "Open Source" in the name is slightly misleading... > License > Copyright (c) 2019 SaaS Forge Inc. https://www.saasforge.dev . You can use this template for any purposes except reselling or purposes prohibited by law.
Fixed! But I still left the part about not using the code for purposes prohibited by law...
It's (presumably) redundant for what you intend it for (you can't grant a right to break the law..) - but can still be troubling. Which law(s), which jurisdictions ?
Copyright law is fairly international through trade agreements - which is one of the reasons copyleft was such a great hack.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thanks! Do you have your boilerplate on Github or anywhere else?
No, I haven't felt like it's really ready for anyone else to use. Just something I use as a shortcut when starting new projects. I ought to go through it and clean it up and put it out there though.
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)
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#40I appreciate the efforts being done in this space, but I don't think this is launch ready yet. It doesn't include some of the things that make a SaaS a SaaS, and not a typical user sign up web app with admin panel. For a SaaS framework you usually need at least: integration with a billing provider (almost always Stripe nowadays), web hook handling for a bunch of services (or a generic way of handling webhooks easily)…
I agree, i'm working on my own SaaS boilerplate in laravel debating oss vs paid, might be a cheaper Nova/Spark combo alternative. $99 per project is pricy, esp when a lot of projects are just testing ideas and things.
SaaS needs to have teams, projects, payments, auth, invites, and possibly be configurable for different 'types' of scenarios... projects could be optional for instance if they don't group actions by project, invites could be optional if anyone can join any team, heck even teams can be optional if you can't add multiple orgs but it's nice to have, say you run multiple brands or something....and want separate invoices with separate logos... etc...
I'm getting close to launch, thinking I might do it as a paid $9.99/month gets unlimited access to everything I do in the scope of the project. Might raise prices eventually but grandfather people in for a time. Or might do FOSS with addons that are pricier, but I don't like apps that do that -- I'd rather pay small fee monthly and use what I need depending on client.