| Its never been easier to release a saas app. But getting to production is a longer road. Having built 2-3 SaaS apps recently to small profits, I wanted to bundle everything into a re-usable product. It is also an attempt to reduce token cost Before LLm I used to use yeoman generators like `JHipster` it saved so much time from decision making and writing boilerplate.
Most existing generators are not LLm friendly unless they make an effort to add some guidance or the LLm was trained on the codebase.
There is also the problem of selecting the right tools which works for 1 developer/ solo founder and all the way to teams. I chose the tools I use for my production SaaS apps now, they work well and cost nothing to start. all Self-serve, no sales people, no approval gating This is just a first release but I imagine we can reduce token usage further. At the moment this base generator with Codex can reduce your usage by 80-90% and get you closer to launch. I have included comments from some solo founders I follow i have met in person , so while TS/Nextjs would not be my choice (i come from Java/Python) it has made sense from a solo founder perspective. lessons learned the hard way. I dismissed the advice initially but some founders were right, Just Release It (possibly trademarked). I have tried to let Codex and agents harness as much possible. If needed I will manually patch things. How to use:
The generator should give you a starting point of an app. Some configuration and then you can let Codex take over. npm https://www.npmjs.com/package/@justlab/create-saas-stack I have published to npm after a very long time please excuse any issues for now. pnpm is used so i still need to update readme for that quickstart
`npm create u/justlab/saas-stack@latest my-app -- --yes` or drop the auto `--yes` and select options what you get out of the box.
Auth, payments, a structured project, local docker dev, Docker deployment (should be straightforward if you deploy to vercel, but i left it open), emails , authorization, basic DB structure for Supabase. |