mjomaa

WebForms?

Just saw him yesterday in the carriage in Vatican City.

As the author of the SaaS boilerplate https://achromatic.dev my business is saving development time :)

Other than that automate more, be it with own tools or existing ones.

https://achromatic.dev - Next.js SaaS starter kit that is not crap. That's it in a nutshell haha

It become the #3 selling one (after Shipfast and Makerkit) in under 3 month.

I know the website itself is not the most descriptive, but I do prio feature and customer requests over website/marketing. Soon the starter kit will also have multi-organization support :)

2025 is gonna be interesting since I plan to add multiple boilerplates to the same package deal. Realized I'm not a business that needs to be greedy and grow, just helping others is enough.

Hi Lewis,

Nice idea :) I think there is a small issue with converting \r\n into <br />.

https://lead.dev/Mahmut_Jomaa

Can't wait to see the leaderboard!

PS: Can you support 2 letter handles? Also converting links in the description would be nice.

Riches in the niches. Analyse some niches, then niche even more down. TAM between $5-50 billion in the US is a good indicator that there is no real competition (market is too small for the big guys).

After 7 years as the market leader you can expect

- $50 billion TAM => $100 million ARR

- $10 billion TAM => $20 million ARR

Usually you start with a small TAM so you can enter the market with some B2B sales. B2B sales are easier because you have a verify specific ideal customer profile (ICP). Later you can decide to expand your TAM so you can become interesting for VC funding. This is ideal for verticals like salons, restaurants, etc. and actually where the growth is at the moment.

Another approach is to just do something everyone needs but is annoying to handle yourself like AWS SES wrapper (Loops, Resend, ...) or Auth+Organizations (Clerk, Stack-Auth, ...). This is ideal if you target tech startups.

Another approach is to to combine two or more products into one. Requires a lot of code. This is super risky, but can be a gold mine if you target sales, marketing, HR, etc.

The last "approach" is special software for enterprise, but you need to work there to know what is needed. It is very hard to come up with an idea for special software. I know one startup who did this and the founder was writing his doctorate about a very niche enterprise topic.

PS: If you need a SaaS boilerplate, grab mine https://achromatic.dev (Next.js) to skip the first 2-3 months of your journey.

Working more on the SaaS starter kit Achromatic (https://achromatic.dev).

The idea is to provide a high quality boilerplate specifically for web apps.

Next.js (v15), React (v19), Auth.js (v5), shadcn/ui, Postgres, Hetzner.

More here: https://achromatic.dev/docs/tech-stack

Choice had a big impact, because I don't have to context switch, only have to implement validation once, can re-use a lot of the logic between frontend and backend and the UI part also looks neat. Furthermore with React server components and server actions a lot of the boilerplate code for an internal API is just.. gone. Super easy.

Now with Next.js 15 RC 2 and stable coming out next Friday, I'm in a very good position. Using the app router with Next.js 13 or Next.js 14 was like having warts. But now with Next.js 15 caching is good again and the speed improvements for dev mode were good enough to not bother me anymore.

Pretty generous and also thanks for radix!

I like that there is also a solid option. Makes it easy to show a selected menu item state.

The reason people jump on AI is because YC and other VCs favor it heavily. Got a genuine B2B idea/solution with a provable track record? Nice but not for YC/VCs.

Some want money so you don't have to wait 4-6 months. Imo I can wait. Submit and forget.

You mean automatic account linking with unverified emails?

Sleep.

Sleep long every day

Honestly Twitter and Reddit. There are many young folks who want to earn a few extra bucks and have more time than us.

For example he https://x.com/dublxo will submit yours to 85 directories for $50-60 + testimonial on the website, but usual price is a bit higher. They are registered under your email, so you have to confirm the email sometimes. In the end you should change the passwords for all tho, but it still saves time.

PS: Ask for a list of directories.

I hired someone to do that for me.

+ 1 for React Email and Resend.

Very easy and reliable.

Auth.js!

Supported providers: https://authjs.dev/getting-started/providers/github

It's been really great so far and I can recommend it if you have a JS/TS codebase.

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You can test Auth.js (v5 beta.22) in my Next.js 15 boilerplate:

https://achromatic.dev

• Credentials auth

• Google and Microsoft login

• Connected accounts

• Multi-factor authentication (via authenticator app)

• Session management

The new trendy moat are multi-verticals in SaaS.

Hard to compete and as a customer it's hard to choose another competitor because the current package includes just so much.

Working on https://achromatic.dev - Next.js 15 SaaS boilerplate focused on web app functionality.

Just added MFA via authenticator apps + recovery codes today.

Thanks for the list!

I suggest to add alternatives. Or do you only consider affiliates that offer your discount code?

Also I think email services and payments are missing.

- Sendgrid, Mailgun, Resend, Loops

- Stripe, Paddle

Would love to see boilerplates as well

- https://achromatic.dev

- https://makerkit.dev

- https://www.spirokit.com/

- https://saasykit.com/

Thats just gmail. They limit you based on reputation.

If it is under 100 mails per day just use gmail.

If you are scared of abuse usw postfix+opendmarc (for sending), but IP/domain reputation takes time.

Otherwise one provider that offers sending+mailbox or two providers for the use-cases.

This actually makes totally sense and most plausible.

Wouldn't the investments then also spread thinner?

Yeah I tried out Endura with the beneficiary CRUD demo.

What are those generated components based on? Is there a component registry?

Congratz on the launch!

Like with most boilerplates the focus is too much on the landing page, but less on the actual application.

I'd be interested to know if you could integrate my boilerplate https://achromatic.dev somehow into the generation to be able to generate web apps. Would be absolutely fanstastic - endless customizations.

It's good to not have an empty canvas. Like a writer and an empty page. But the output is not that good yet imo.

Not with shadcn/ui but I get what you mean. For me Gemini is frustrating, ChatGPT is outdated and Claude is actually useful.