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5 products in boilerplates, ranked by the votes people cast.

ShipFast

A Next.js starter with auth, payments and email already wired together.

BoilerplatesPaid

create-t3-app

A typesafe Next.js stack scaffolded by answering four questions.

BoilerplatesOpen source

supastarter

SaaS scaffolding for Next.js, Nuxt or TanStack Start, with your own database.

BoilerplatesPaid

Gravity

A Node.js and React SaaS starter with auth, Stripe billing and an admin app.

BoilerplatesPaid

Makerkit

Multi-tenant SaaS boilerplate with teams and billing done properly.

BoilerplatesPaid

Starter codebases that ship with the parts every product needs and nobody enjoys building: authentication, payments, transactional email, a database layer and the wiring between them. create-t3-app is the free end of this, a typesafe Next.js stack scaffolded by answering a few questions, with no business logic included. ShipFast is the paid end, a Next.js starter with auth, payments and email already connected so a first sale is possible on day one. Makerkit and supastarter both go further into multi-tenancy, teams and billing, which is the part that is genuinely tedious to get right. What you are buying is a week or three of setup and a set of decisions already made. What you inherit is somebody else's opinions, and unpicking them later costs more than the licence did.

Questions about boilerplates tools

Is a paid boilerplate worth it?
If it saves two weeks of setup on a project you were going to build anyway, the arithmetic is straightforward. If you are still deciding what to build, a boilerplate mostly adds code you have to understand before you can change it.
What should a SaaS boilerplate include?
Authentication with a real session model, subscription billing including upgrades and cancellations, transactional email, a database layer with migrations, and role-based access. Multi-tenancy if teams are part of the product, because retrofitting it is the expensive version.
Do boilerplates get updates?
Most sell lifetime updates to the template, but your copy diverges the moment you start building. In practice you take security fixes by hand and ignore the rest, so judge one on the code you receive rather than the update promise.
Free starter or paid boilerplate?
A free scaffold gives you a sound stack and no product features. A paid boilerplate gives you billing and auth already working. The gap between them is roughly the work you are paying to skip, and it is worth pricing that honestly before choosing.

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