TItima101·Oct 6, 2021
https://github.com/async-labs/saas is open source (I maintain it)
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Build your own SaaS business with SaaS boilerplate. Productive stack: React, Material-UI, Next, MobX, WebSockets, Express, Node, Mongoose, MongoDB. Written with TypeScript.
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Build your own SaaS business with SaaS boilerplate. Productive stack: React, Material-UI, Next, MobX, WebSockets, Express, Node, Mongoose, MongoDB. Written with TypeScript.
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Each chapter has ample of free excerpt (10-20% of total content), all code is public under MIT license: https://github.com/async-labs/saas
This worked well for us so far. We received less than 10 refund requests out of 850 purchases. Not sure what else to add here.
Code speaks for itself, I am just no-name guy in the cabin in the middle of the forest, with hotspot and generator. I have early-stage SaaS business with few paying customers but nothing to brag about it: https://async-await.com
If I were you I would not buy this book. At least one author is not a celebrity =)
In Show HN: Wrote book that builds a SaaS boilerplate. Save weeks on side projectsI laughed hard.
Your own code.
Yes, the name "boilerplate" is deceiving here. Not sure where to draw the line. This boilerplate does have some features - websocket with rooms, working with Markdown, S3 file uplod, API Gateway with AWS Lambda, webhook from Stripe and many more.
Is there name for boilerplate with "popular" features?
The book's code is actually free and hosted here:
https://github.com/async-labs/saas/tree/master/book
We charge for book's content which is bunch of explanations and diagrams.
In Show HN: Wrote book that builds a SaaS boilerplate. Save weeks on side projectshttps://github.com/async-labs/saas/blob/master/README.md
From: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/17-saas-starter-kits-boile...
Probably more than that one.
In Ask HN: How come there is no example code for B2B-SaaS apps?https://github.com/async-labs/saas "Build your own SaaS business with SaaS boilerplate. Productive stack: React, Material-UI, Next, MobX, WebSockets, Express, Node, Mongoose, MongoDB. Written with TypeScript"
In Ask HN: How come there is no example code for B2B-SaaS apps?I don't use any, not a programmer, but I have come across the following, languages unknown to me.
https://www.saasforge.dev/
https://github.com/async-labs/saas
https://nodex.wensia.com/
Cheers, Ace.
In Ask HN: Do you use a SaaS starter-kit?I have briefly evaluated a few of these in the last month (focusing only on TS or Python) or so and have ended up convincing myself I need to go down the path of building bits I need in my own way. Consider this only constrictive criticism and I massively applaud the hard work that has gone into these projects:
https://github.com/async-labs/saas
Good:
-React Material UI Front End
-Book showing how you how to build it, really cool way of funding OSS!
-Simple but scalable enough architecture, not too much cruft.
Not for me:
-MongoDB/Mongoose, where SQL (sequalize ORM or plain postgres) would have been a much better fit for a SAAS boilerplate in my opinion. Quite a big user document in the mongodb schema.
-Quite tight integration with AWS by default (s3,SES,Lambda) not hard to replace but the principle of OSS with defaults to one vendors
Read the rest
IAAS feels uncomfortable to me.
-No password based login, not a big deal but an interesting choice.
-No Delete on team members and some other simple things that are needed to make it functional.
-Missing a few key features (permissions, master dashboard ect) that are addons by commercial licence which is fine, but these add up quickly to ~$1000 for something that would still be a fairly basic boilerplate.
https://github.com/staart/api
Good:
-Awesome features: landing page, RBAC (although roles are hardcoded so take a look at these before you build your app), TFA, Api Gateway, Auto Join company based on domain. Everything you need (and some you wont)
Not for me:
-While there are lots of features, some don't actually work out of the box and require fixes. Some features you will not need and may have to strip out. If more time was spent on getting fewer core features absolutely perfect this would be the best SAAS starter out there in my view (in TS/JS).
-Again integration with AWS by default (SES) with no SMTP or second option, easy to replace though.
- Would personally have chose postgres with knex (rather than direct mysql) for the DB and react for the front end over vue but these are personal preferences.
- UX on front end could do with a little work.
SAASForge seems interesting but missing alot of features like companies/teams master dashboard ect.
Mobile friendly https://github.com/async-labs/saas
In Ask HN: Looking for feedback on SaaS boilerplateAsk HN: Looking for feedback on SaaS boilerplate
I've recently built and published open source SaaS boilerplate with React/Next/Express/TypeScript.
Currently, over 2000 people tried the demo and about the same number of people cloned repo. But so far, I did not receive much feedback.
If you are in the early stage of building your SaaS web application or looking for stack/boilerplate - what would you add or subtract from our SaaS boilerplate.
Github repo: https://github.com/async-labs/saas
Any feedback on the README file?
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