Glad to see DaisyUI on here - it’s a component library designed with tailwindcss - it hits that fine balance for component libraries between covering the hard-to-do stuff (modals, accordions, drop-down) without building such big components that you end up constantly tinkering to get what you want.
Show HN: SvelteKit SaaS Boilerplate to help launch your product fast
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Re: Show HN: SvelteKit SaaS Boilerplate to help launch your product fast
#22This looks great, and I can certainly see this saving me some time!
Re: Show HN: SvelteKit SaaS Boilerplate to help launch your product fast
#23I’m not a skilled enough developer.
I wanted to create a product to sell access to a URL endpoint that provides data. The URL is used within other products, like a SEIM, firewall, dashboard, etc.
I can create the URL endpoint, data, server infrastructure, etc. I also already have enterprise customers ready to subscribe.
However, I’m not skilled enough to create a storefront, auth, billing, etc. I tried finding a solution I could pay for, but it was a rabbit hole of solutions that would not work.
Re: Show HN: SvelteKit SaaS Boilerplate to help launch your product fast
#24I've been seeing so many people trying to sell "kits" like this for Next.js and similar, it's quite strange as it's always mostly boilerplate code and otherwise freely available NPM packages. These types of things should be "starter projects" and frankly they should be free on Github for anyone to download and learn with. I have a hard time seeing any market for these kits outside of lazy junior developers.
I've setup my own internal kit (I'm not selling it now) and it's much work that you think to get the small details right and bring everything together properly. I've spent a few days on it and the price is worth it to save that amount of work in my opinion.
Wasn't it worth it to truly learn the internals, though?
Re: Show HN: SvelteKit SaaS Boilerplate to help launch your product fast
#25I've been seeing so many people trying to sell "kits" like this for Next.js and similar, it's quite strange as it's always mostly boilerplate code and otherwise freely available NPM packages. These types of things should be "starter projects" and frankly they should be free on Github for anyone to download and learn with. I have a hard time seeing any market for these kits outside of lazy junior developers.
Free boilerplate templates are often not maintained for that long, dare I say usually maintained as long as the author is interested in that particular stack. I think there's some value in offering a stack that has preconfigured settings for your IDE, linters, formatters etc as well as complicated things like multi-tenant databases. It eliminates a lot of toil when setting up a new product and generally the price for these kits is under $100.
Re: Show HN: SvelteKit SaaS Boilerplate to help launch your product fast
#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've setup my own internal kit (I'm not selling it now) and it's much work that you think to get the small details right and bring everything together properly. I've spent a few days on it and the price is worth it to save that amount of work in my opinion.
Wasn't it worth it to truly learn the internals, though?
Interesting thought, maybe I should add clear reasons why specific parts were included and how they work
Re: Show HN: SvelteKit SaaS Boilerplate to help launch your product fast
#27I know that it takes a lot of effort to setup these things but I wonder about the long term benefit to buyers. They’re buying into the Launch Leopard Architectural Philosophy, which they may or may not appreciate and grow the way they hope. Today’s unproved framework or boilerplate is tomorrow’s tech debt liability.
Did you consider adding guaranteed support or consulting hours to help buyers launch and grow? That would de-risk the initial buy and provide ongoing value. “Buy the starter, get X hours of time, I’ll be there to help you as a partner on your journey.” Then a contract (hourly, quarterly, yearly?) for continued engagement. Boilerplates are everywhere, relationships and guidance are not. I imagine that anyone in the market for this would see that as a major value add and differentiator.
Re: Show HN: SvelteKit SaaS Boilerplate to help launch your product fast
#28I know that it takes a lot of effort to setup these things but I wonder about the long term benefit to buyers. They’re buying into the Launch Leopard Architectural Philosophy, which they may or may not appreciate and grow the way they hope. Today’s unproved framework or boilerplate is tomorrow’s tech debt liability. Did you consider adding guaranteed support or consulting hours to help buyers launch and grow? That wo…
Very interesting idea!
Currently I only have a discord channel for support and help, but your suggested approach of offering some included one on one consulting makes sense. I am gonna look into how I can implement this
Re: Show HN: SvelteKit SaaS Boilerplate to help launch your product fast
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I've setup my own internal kit (I'm not selling it now) and it's much work that you think to get the small details right and bring everything together properly. I've spent a few days on it and the price is worth it to save that amount of work in my opinion.
Wasn't it worth it to truly learn the internals, though?
Personally I've done it for that goal so yeah it was worth it but if you are looking to launch a project, I can understand that you might want to skip that step.
Re: Show HN: SvelteKit SaaS Boilerplate to help launch your product fast
#30I've been seeing so many people trying to sell "kits" like this for Next.js and similar, it's quite strange as it's always mostly boilerplate code and otherwise freely available NPM packages. These types of things should be "starter projects" and frankly they should be free on Github for anyone to download and learn with. I have a hard time seeing any market for these kits outside of lazy junior developers.
Well for the JS ecosystem there's nothing dominant and beloved like Rails for Ruby, so it makes sense there would be more efforts to create coherent app architectures. Plus, if the boilerplate saves developer time to launch a business application then it saves potentially a lot of money.