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

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Re: Ask HN: What's the best SaaS starter kit for indie makers?

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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 t…

Great insights and questions to ask. Love your perspective on the topic, thanks for sharing it :-)

Re: Ask HN: What's the best SaaS starter kit for indie makers?

#32

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

The sole purpose of these types of questions is to see what the community suggests, evaluate the market, and discover new interesting things that I currently don't know (for others is the same I guess).

Re: Ask HN: What's the best SaaS starter kit for indie makers?

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"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 - multiuse…

Good strategy, thanks! Have you ever launched and run a SaaS business? I'm curious to know why you're looking for an admin dashboard (what should it include?) and what's multiuser strategy.

Yes a few.

The admin dashboard is important to manage plans, users and at least some tables on the db.

Multiuser strat is how you differentiate between users when storing data.

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