what is the real goal of this post? gauge the market? somehow funnel to your thing? (honestly curious)
//edit I see you already used another account to answer yourself with recommendation of your product
IDK if the solopreneur thing has intensified so much recently, but almost every time I see a thread like that, here or on reddit, it's posted by the creator of the tool and he somehow tries to sneak his product in
First of all, this is the only account I own, the other replies are from people I don't know >.<
Second of all, I was asking to see what the community suggests in terms of SaaS Starter Kit, monitor the market, and discover new interesting things that I currently don't know.
I wonder why people always see the rot even where there is none.
Not exactly a starter kit, but something I think could be useful during early development: Noop Workshop [1]. Full disclosure I work @ noop.
One of the primary benefits is you can quickly explore what Cloud components you need (locally) before purchasing them. We also built a bunch of templates in different languages that act as application boilerplate.
If it works the way you want in Workshop you can launch right to the cloud. If not it's easy to find alternative hosts for the different components. After all, Noop uses many AWS services under the hood.
The interface for local development is almost identical to the cloud interface, so it will give you a pretty clear idea of what the experience will be like in deployed environments.
I love what I see!
Noop looks great for local development, and deployment to cloud services.
I'll give it a try as soon as possible.
These are the pain points I'm looking for:
- avoid vendor lock-in (avoid using Vercel, also for bandwidth cost)
- continuous deployment (push to git)
- let's encrypt certificates auto-renewal
- scaling? (might be not necessary TBH)
Like others have said, pick the tech you want to use first, then find a good one that uses that tech! I would look for reviews, a history of updates, and a founder who knows their stuff.
Have you ever launched and run a SaaS business? I'm curious to know why you're looking for an admin dashboard (what should it include?) and what's multiuser strategy.
There is no best one. You will unfortunately (!) need to do some legwork to decide what you want to build, what you need, what tech you want to use and why, and see if there is a starter kit that is good or if you have to just do without one.
Is the chosen starter kit good? Clues may lie in licenses, the repo if source is available, if paid is there a money back
guarantee, is it maintained, is the code any good (do they know what they are doing?). Does it meet your functional and nonfunctional requirements?
Take this as advise for a lonely programmer OR (!) user feedback for your gig (!!) ;)
The sole purpose of these types of questions is to see what the community suggests, evaluate the market, and discover new interesting things that I currently don't know (for others is the same I guess).
If you are working with or building an API, Treblle has a really good free tier, plus completely free apps (no login required) - API Insights and Aspen API testing.
what is the real goal of this post? gauge the market? somehow funnel to your thing? (honestly curious)
//edit I see you already used another account to answer yourself with recommendation of your product
IDK if the solopreneur thing has intensified so much recently, but almost every time I see a thread like that, here or on reddit, it's posted by the creator of the tool and he somehow tries to sneak his product in
for anyone browsing for a starter kit I recommend laravel with a starter kit and laravel stripe package: https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/starter-kits + https://laravel.com/docs/10.x/billing