The ultimate SaaS template

https://github.com/gmpetrov/utlimate-saas-js

by gptrv • 5 years ago

75 58 5 years ago

gptrv15• 5 years ago

Hello :wave: This is my template to quickstart a SAAS project with Typescript/Next.js/NextAuth.js/Prisma/Stripe/Tailwindcss/Postgresql https://github.com/gmpetrov/utlimate-saas-js Stop losing time implementing authentication and payment over and over again. Focus on what brings value to your customers !

Demo: https://utlimate-saas-js.vercel.app/

cven714• 5 years ago

Very nice! Have to point out the spelling error, losing* not loosing.

gptrv15• 5 years ago

I'm glad you found it usefull. Sorry for the misspelling ! (i'm not english native )

goinfar• 5 years ago

Bravo. This is well presented and will no doubt help some people get past the inception stage.

1cvmask• 5 years ago

Any plans to expand it? What’s your roadmap?

gptrv15• 5 years ago

I'dont have a roadmap. I'would like the template to stay generic. I'guess I'll add features when i meet the need. Do you have a specific feature in mind ?

Mxs2000• 5 years ago

Not sure if intentional or not but on the pricing page when you click on 'Yearly billing' the price is still displayed as '/month'.

sharps_xp2• 5 years ago

I played with next/next-auth and what was appealing was how cheaply you could run an app.

one thing that i didn’t have time to look into is the latency profile when you manage sessions on your own with all the application logic on edge lambda functions and the database in one data center like us-east-1.

then i started experimenting with edge redis clusters that sit closer to the lambda functions, but that was a huge pain and still not as cheap as i wanted because the redis provider was charging per redis command.

i excited to play with aurora serverless v2 for postgres

gptrv15• 5 years ago

True, this stack is very cost efficient for bootstrapping a project. I'm sure you could optimize the latency with hosting yourself with aws lambda functions etc... But the point is, if you're bootstraping a business, you should focus on what brings value to your customers :)

notoverthere• 5 years ago

Honestly, this is the reason why I think Google's Firebase (and accompanying Firestore database) is absolute gold.

Firebase handles all the complexity for you. You get a nice set of JS SDKs for auth, database, cloud functions, file storage and static hosting.

And the best part is how damn cheap it is.

No fussing with low-level Redis clusters or paying for things on the edge. It all 'just works' and it does it fast.

sharps_xp2• 5 years ago

I'd be interested more in Firebase if I could specify a SQL schema. I don't want to work around the headaches of a document store...

that_guy_iain5• 5 years ago

As someone who has their own SaaS bootstrap template and has been looking around the market. I can say, this is not the ultimate.

If you look at either:

* https://www.getparthenon.com

* https://www.saaspegasus.com

I think you'll see lots of features you should incorporate into yours.

kjhughes2• 5 years ago

Perhaps 'ultimate' in the name is more aspirational than objective, but thank you for the helpful "see also" links.

bizzleDawg• 5 years ago

Has anyone used saaspegasus? I've been on the fence about purchasing it.

that_guy_iain5• 5 years ago

I've personally seen quite a few people on Twitter talk about how good it is. I don't think I've seen anyone speak badly about it.

(It's not mine)

blowski6• 5 years ago

Parthenon is your one, is that right?

that_guy_iain5• 5 years ago

Yea.

blue-gum• 5 years ago

Anybody know if these support building and selling an API? I've been trying to find a good + cheap/free set of tools to build an APIaaS that includes payment (stripe), rate throttling, auth

pdevr• 5 years ago

One of the best "first posts" I have seen on HN. Kudos.

Edit: I will let the hyperbole bit (ultimate) slide, considering this is your first ever post here :-)

gptrv15• 5 years ago

mwcampbell• 5 years ago

The Blitz.js documentation discusses some problems with deploying an RDBMS-backed app to Vercel. Have you encountered any of these? https://blitzjs.com/docs/deploy-vercel

gptrv15• 5 years ago

No issues encountered regarding postgresql with Vercel yet. Could be fun to stress test the stack :)

NicoJuicy• 5 years ago

Just a reminder, it's very similar to: https://github.com/vercel/nextjs-subscription-payments

( he mentioned it in the Readme too)

gptrv15• 5 years ago

I was inspired by this project, but i didn't like the stack.

IceDane• 5 years ago

Is this what HN has come to? Upvoting low effort posts with cookie cutter programming templates? This is the kind of garbage that constantly gets posted to all programming subreddits to everyone's dismay, and usually gets downvoted to oblivion, as it should.

Here's a protip: The intersection of (people who are capable of building a SaaS application) and (people who need or want cookie cutter programming templates) is the empty set.

Also.. SaaS with next? If you're building a SaaS application, you're probably building an API first and an application second. You probably don't want to entangle this API with your frontend, even though you can.

that_guy_iain5• 5 years ago

The intersection of (people who are capable of building a SaaS application) and (people who need or want cookie cutter programming templates) is the empty set.

It really isn't.

Zababa• 5 years ago

Here's a protip: The intersection of (people who are capable of building a SaaS application) and (people who need or want cookie cutter programming templates) is the empty set.

Why? Considering the mess that is JS development, it's nice to have projects like that to quickly evaluate some options.

Also.. SaaS with next? If you're building a SaaS application, you're probably building an API first and an application second. You probably don't want to entangle this API with your frontend, even though you can.

That sounds like a very specific vision of SaaS, one mainly aimed at programmers. That's not the only kind of SaaS out there.

smoldesu• 5 years ago

Reading this gave me a similar "beginning-of-the-end" vibe. Just last night I complained to my SO for hours about how B2B sales are going to destroy our current notion of the individual developer. I shudder to imagine what "development" will look like in 10 years: you pay Github $0.25 for access to your online dev environment, then $0.05 for each debug build and $0.50 for each release build? It sounds insane to frame things like that, but both Apple and Google have made it clear that they intend to move app compilation off-device.

So yeah, I have a hard time seeing anything other than dystopia when I look at this. It's certainly not poorly made or developed in bad faith, but the optics and rhetoric around it really make me sick.

gptrv15• 5 years ago

I just wanted to share my side-project of the last weekend. I've made it for myself first. It is a very opinionated template, made with the tools i like to use currently (Typescript, Prisma, Next.JS) I'll be happy if it's useful to someone else. I'm sad you found that it's garbage :(

aerovistae• 5 years ago

If it makes you feel better, he's dead wrong. Whenever I'm building a new software project I'm always thinking "God damn why do I have to start from scratch every time for the same things."

I do really wish there were a well-established open source framework for bootstrapping projects with authentication and payments, something that was vetted by a lot of people though.

blowski6• 5 years ago

I like that you posted a useful template, but it is difficult to see why it's so much better than all the alternatives that it deserves the title "ultimate". Perhaps if it just said "Open-source template for bootstrapping a SaaS project" that would be better.

enumjorge• 5 years ago

I don’t think your project is garbage, but you also called it the “ultimate” template, which as you pointed out below was a bit of marketing on your part. It’s not surprising that someone in HN is going to call you out on the marketing fluff.

leerob• 5 years ago

I thought it was great. Thank you for sharing and being part of the Next.js community.

jakelazaroff• 5 years ago

Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

kjhughes2• 5 years ago

The target market is much larger than your empty set dig suggests.

There are very talented developers, often deeply technical and highly skilled in areas separate from the idiosyncrasies of building SaaS web apps, who appreciate a functional jump start in an area outside of their core competency.

If your expertise extends to the areas covered by OP's SaaS template, consider offering suggestions rather than dismissing the (graciously shared) project's entire raison d'etre.

marcosdumay• 5 years ago

The intersection of (people who are capable of building a SaaS application) and (people who need or want cookie cutter programming templates) is the empty set.

It's nice to start from something that is not an empty canvas. That said, I think this one mixes way too many independent opinions to be useful.

Anyway, "I made a thing, what do you think" is a common kind of post here, and starting templates are something that attracts a lot of interest.

Trufa• 5 years ago

I don't know man, I find it pretty useful.

sergiomattei• 5 years ago

My God, it's just a cool weekend programming project. Calm down and tone down the elitist attitude.

You probably don't want to entangle this API with your frontend, even though you can.

How about you build a SaaS with whatever gets the job done? Could be a single PHP file as long as it ships.

joshmanders• 5 years ago

Also.. SaaS with next? If you're building a SaaS application, you're probably building an API first and an application second. You probably don't want to entangle this API with your frontend, even though you can.

Oh no, someone tell rauchg and the rest of the Vercel team that they've not only built a terrible framework (next.js) but their using it to build Vercel is also bad because checks notes IceDane on HN said nobody does this.

gptrv15• 5 years ago

The repository has been renamed. https://github.com/gmpetrov/ultimate-saas-ts

The ultimate SaaS template

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