The ultimate SaaS template
github.com
github.com
If you look at either:
* https://www.getparthenon.com
I think you'll see lots of features you should incorporate into yours.
(It's not mine)
Yea, I need to sort that out. It should be a lot clearer. I would say the the benefits are the same as other bootstraps and templates as well as open source libraries. It provides you functionality so you don't need to code it yourself.
My main thing with open source is that bug fixes are very much optional, even if you provide the fix. They're also not designed for scale. I really want to be able to provide top level support.
Then you have the fact that you need to use multiple libraries that sometimes don't really play well nice with each other. Everything integrates with each other.
Open source libraries and others aren't actually designed for scale or the company growing and needing to replace parts. That is one area I tried to put effort into making sure you can replace things and use your own. For example, it comes with A/B testing, you can literally switch between mines and optimizely. The admin section (Athena) for example can work with Doctrine ORM or MongoDB and uses the repository interface to allow any database system to be used. While still being heavily inspired by Sonata.
Then there are things like file uploads which I've added the glue between Symfony and Flysystem.
Emails we support quite a few email service providers which can be changed via config. Unlike the symfony mailer which you can also use the integrations with the service providers allows you to use the templates with Sendgird, etc.
And obivously I'm planning on extending it further.
If you want a discount code email me at iain@humblyarrogant.io and I'll hook you up with a discount.
I'd be happy to chat about it in more detail if you want to ping me. Contact details are on my profile page.
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Here's a protip: The intersection of (people who are capable of building a SaaS application) and (people who need or want cookie cutter programming templates) is the empty set.
Also.. SaaS with next? If you're building a SaaS application, you're probably building an API first and an application second. You probably don't want to entangle this API with your frontend, even though you can.
It really isn't.
Why? Considering the mess that is JS development, it's nice to have projects like that to quickly evaluate some options.
> Also.. SaaS with next? If you're building a SaaS application, you're probably building an API first and an application second. You probably don't want to entangle this API with your frontend, even though you can.
That sounds like a very specific vision of SaaS, one mainly aimed at programmers. That's not the only kind of SaaS out there.
So yeah, I have a hard time seeing anything other than dystopia when I look at this. It's certainly not poorly made or developed in bad faith, but the optics and rhetoric around it really make me sick.
I do really wish there were a well-established open source framework for bootstrapping projects with authentication and payments, something that was vetted by a lot of people though.
It's a useful project, and I genuinely thank you for sharing it. That people are upvoting it and commenting positively on it gives me much more information than you saying it's "the ultimate".
My usual rule is:
> If you feel the need to tell me how good it is, I'll assume it's not very good
There are very talented developers, often deeply technical and highly skilled in areas separate from the idiosyncrasies of building SaaS web apps, who appreciate a functional jump start in an area outside of their core competency.
If your expertise extends to the areas covered by OP's SaaS template, consider offering suggestions rather than dismissing the (graciously shared) project's entire raison d'etre.
It's nice to start from something that is not an empty canvas. That said, I think this one mixes way too many independent opinions to be useful.
Anyway, "I made a thing, what do you think" is a common kind of post here, and starting templates are something that attracts a lot of interest.
> You probably don't want to entangle this API with your frontend, even though you can.
How about you build a SaaS with whatever gets the job done? Could be a single PHP file as long as it ships.
Oh no, someone tell rauchg and the rest of the Vercel team that they've not only built a terrible framework (next.js) but their using it to build Vercel is also bad because checks notes IceDane on HN said nobody does this.
( he mentioned it in the Readme too)
one thing that i didn’t have time to look into is the latency profile when you manage sessions on your own with all the application logic on edge lambda functions and the database in one data center like us-east-1.
then i started experimenting with edge redis clusters that sit closer to the lambda functions, but that was a huge pain and still not as cheap as i wanted because the redis provider was charging per redis command.
i excited to play with aurora serverless v2 for postgres
Firebase handles all the complexity for you. You get a nice set of JS SDKs for auth, database, cloud functions, file storage and static hosting.
And the best part is how damn cheap it is.
No fussing with low-level Redis clusters or paying for things on the edge. It all 'just works' and it does it fast.
Edit: I will let the hyperbole bit (ultimate) slide, considering this is your first ever post here :-)