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My suggestions are mostly along the same lines (and having not seen the source code) - use a plug-in architecture for some things. MySQL is fine, but a lot of companies use PostgreSQL. Google OAuth is fine, but many companies like Auth0. You main project provides a stable API for each option, but the end-developer can swap out PGSQL for MySQL if they choose without needing to change any code (well, maybe their SQL).
Your FAQ mentions some templates (HTML I assume?) but that's not shown in your Features list anywhere - devs will want to know what pages have already been stubbed out for them.
Good luck with this!