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by runako 1772 days ago
Congratulations on the launch! This looks really awesome, and I plan to try it out for a project I am working on.

A feature request: I would absolutely love to have something like Arengu that also handles the rest of the boilerplate SaaS stack. Key is a branded user portal with a billing area (I should just give it my Stripe keys and let it generate the screens); user/team management, etc.

To give an example: if you click your avatar in the top right of a Github page, I would like to outsource all of those pages. (How would that work? I would provide APIs and then have some kind of page builder in Arengu that would display the data & handle user input. So for example if I were Github, I would have an endpoint that would return JSON for the repositories for a user, and Arengu would display github.com/$USER?tab=repositories. There could also be API contracts where my API essentially returns the HTML for part of the page.) Basically -- use your front-end builder to reduce the front-end code I need to write & manage.

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I believe you're looking for something like Outseta (https://www.outseta.com/)

They're a membership platform that supports:

- Payments

- Sign up forms

- CRM

- Authentication

- Content protection

- Email marketing

- Help desk

- Notifications

Pretty amazing if you ask me. I have no affiliation with Outseta, but I do follow the founder on Twitter.

Thank you so much! This appears to be exactly what I am looking for, and then some.

This is exactly why I keep coming back to HN.

This is a really interesting use case. If you use Stripe, you can use the Stripe Customer Portal to allow your users to handle subscriptions, update users' information, billing details, etc: https://www.arengu.com/tutorials/passwordless-authentication...

Anyway, there are many boilerplate SaaS blocks that might make sense to explore for Arengu, but currently we're focused on signup and onboarding flows/screens.