If you want to find the best SaaS boilerplates, I've made a list of the 10 most popular ones. SaaS boilerplates have exploded in popularity in the last couple of years. They are basically starter kits for creating Software as a Service web apps and reduce the time needed for developing your product.
Instead of writing a lot of code for things like the landing page, authentication, internal blog, Stripe payments etc you can start with all these features set up for you. This means you can stick to building your important features and save a lot of development time. You can also spend more time on marketing and actually getting the customers you need to keep your startup alive. Below are some of the most popular SaaS boilerplates used by founders. All prices are correct at the time of writing this post.
NextJS SaaS boilerplates
supastarter (affiliate)
The supastarter template is a boilerplate for NextJS and Nuxt and boasts over 400 users. Buyers have the choice of buying access to build their app in either NextJS 14 or Nuxt 3. SupaStarter includes pages for outlining your app's terms and conditions/privacy policies, which can be important for European devs.
Something that's great about Supa Starter is you get lifetime updates after you buy it. So whenever the boilerplate is modified and improved, you can benefit.
Price: $299
Marblism
Marblism is an AI-powered website generater created by Ulric Musset and Cyril Pluche. The idea is that you give it a prompt and it generates a TypeScript web app for you in a few minutes! So you don't have to do any of the initial design or things like naming database tables. Although you can use Marblism to create a SaaS, you can also make other things like internal tools or marketplaces.
Marblism comes with features like Stripe payments, Next Auth, a postgres database and an integration with OpenAI for making AI apps. Rather uniquely for a boilerplate like this, you can also host your website on Marblism as well with one-click. This is a nice feature if you don't want to set up your own server. There's no vendor lock-in - all your code is in GitHub so you can host it anywhere you like.
Price: free for 2 apps and 5 iterations on the prompts
Or it's $20/month for 3 apps and unlimited interations and hosting.
MakerKit
Makerkit is a SaaS boilerplate which gives you the choice of making an app with either NextJS or Remix. I like that it has a special waitlist plugin for app launches. There are a variety of auth options including email, social or magic link. You have the choice of either Stripe or LemonSqueezy for billing.
Price: $299
React SaaS boilerplates
Divjoy (affiliate)
Divjoy is a React SaaS boilerplate, although it also offers options for using NextJS as well. I like the fact there is a lot of optionality here. You can choose from a variety of UI libraries like Tailwind, Bulma, Bootstrap and Material UI. For hosting you can choose between Vercel or Netlify.
At the moment Divjoy offers templates for a SaaS or a landing page (Web3 and e-commerce templates are coming soon). Also, you can use it for as many projects as you like! Some boilerplates restrict this.
Divjoy says that over 17,000 codebases have been created by users so far. The landing page impressively has a testimonial from the CTO of Stripe.
Price: $199
Node SaaS boilerplates
Gravity (affiliate)
Gravity is a React and Node based boilerplate that is used by over 500 developers. It's been around since 2019 and was created by Kyle Gawley. I interviewed Kyle on YouTube about why he ditched VC startups because of stress and how he came to bootstrapping.
There's actually a free version of Gravity, but it comes without a lot of the functionality like payments. Something I like about Gravity is that it gives you the choice of 10 different databases to connect to instead of making you choose one the boilerplate maker likes. Randall Kanna, a popular self-taught developer, sold her AI app CodeTutor after using Gravity to build it.
Unlike some of the other boilerplates on this list, there are 4 different pricing options. If you pay more than the basic price, you also get a React Native codebase. Everyone who buys Gravity gets access to the Discord community, which is nice, as that way you can get tips from devs who use it.
Prices start at $495.
Startkit
Startkit is a relatively new Node boilerplate which is aimed at founders who want to make an AI app quickly. It comes with examples apps straight out the box like a Telegram bot that recognises images and tells the user what they are. It was created by long-time bootstrappers James and Danielle, who were already making $10k MRR from an email unsubscribe tool and an AI writing assistant, Ellie.
Price: $53-$88 (with High Signal discount)
Django SaaS boilerplates
SaaS Pegasus (affiliate)
This is one of the original SaaS boilerplates. The founder, Cory Zue, had had success with a wedding place card app and a couple of other apps made in Django and was featured on the IndieHackers podcast. He then started selling the code that powered these websites as a boilerplates. SaaS Pegasus is updated regularly and includes features that let you make an AI app with OpenAI's API.
Laravel SaaS boilerplates
Larafast (affiliate)
Larafast was inspired by ShipFast but serves people who code with the PHP framework Laravel. I like the fact that it is set up to take one-time payments as well as subscriptions (some boilerplates only work with recurring payments). You also get to use various different payment processors like Stripe, LemonSqueezy (now owned by Stripe) and Paddle.
You also get the choice of two different stacks:
• Tailwind CSS, Alpine.js, Livewire, and Laravel (TALL stack)
• Vue 3, Inertia, Laravel, and Tailwind (VILT stack)
Price: $169-199
Ruby on Rails SaaS boilerplates
Jumpstart Pro
This is one of the earliest SaaS templates and is perfect if you like coding with Ruby on Rails. It's created by the same team behind Go Rails, the well-respected video platform for learning Rails which costs more than 80,000 customers. Jumpstart Pro comes with the usual boilerplate features like multi-tenancy, TailwindCSS, API and social auth.
One thing I really like about this one is that it integrates with other payment software like Paddle and Braintree, besides just the usual Stripe option that most boilerplates offer. It's $249 for building one site or $749 if you want to build more than that. There's an iOS version of the codebase which costs $199.
Price: $249-$749
Conclusion
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