ShipFast
PaidThe best-known Next.js SaaS boilerplate — Stripe payments, magic-link and social auth, transactional emails, SEO helpers, and a component library wired together so you launch in days. Paid, from $199 one-time.
Why we recommend ShipFast
ShipFast, by indie hacker Marc Lou, is the boilerplate that turned 'ship in a weekend' into a product category. What you're buying is not clever code — it's the elimination of the two weeks every solo founder loses wiring Stripe checkout + webhooks, auth, transactional email, and SEO metadata before writing a single feature. The kit ships as a plain Next.js app (App Router, Tailwind, DaisyUI) with database adapters for MongoDB or Supabase, and the docs are written in launch-checklist style: follow them top to bottom and a payable product exists at the end. Its enormous customer base is itself a feature — most integration problems you hit have already been answered in the community Discord.
Best use cases
Best for: solo indie hackers shipping many small paid products a year, developers who want Stripe + auth + email decisions made for them, and makers who value launch speed over architectural purity. It is deliberately un-opinionated about your actual product code — you bolt features onto a working shell.
Honest limitations
Not for: teams that need multi-tenancy, roles/permissions, or tests — none of that ships in the box. The code favors simplicity over abstraction, so large apps outgrow it. Paid and closed-source (from $199 one-time), and updates depend on one maintainer.
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