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I just wanted to share my side-project of the last weekend. I've made it for myself first. It is a very opinionated template, made with the tools i like to use currently (Typescript, Prisma, Next.JS) I'll be happy if it's useful to someone else. I'm sad you found that it's garbage :(

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If it makes you feel better, he's dead wrong. Whenever I'm building a new software project I'm always thinking "God damn why do I have to start from scratch every time for the same things."

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.

My dream :)

I don’t think your project is garbage, but you also called it the “ultimate” template, which as you pointed out below was a bit of marketing on your part. It’s not surprising that someone in HN is going to call you out on the marketing fluff.

I like that you posted a useful template, but it is difficult to see why it's so much better than all the alternatives that it deserves the title "ultimate". Perhaps if it just said "Open-source template for bootstrapping a SaaS project" that would be better.

This is the ultimate template for ME :)

My son is the most special thing in the world for me, but if I post his picture on a parents' forum saying "The ultimate child", I suspect some would disagree.

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".

haha i'm a dad too, and my son is by far the ultimate baby :) I'see you point. But the fact that the software is public on github makes it implicitly "Open Source". Also a bit of "marketing" doesn't hurt for sharing ideas/projects

On HN, I would say it does hurt. Too many people here remember Digg c. 2007, when everything was "the ultimate" so it chafes whenever we see it here, lest our precious community end up the same way.

My usual rule is:

> If you feel the need to tell me how good it is, I'll assume it's not very good

Didn't knew about the no-marketing rule on HN sorry for that

I thought it was great. Thank you for sharing and being part of the Next.js community.

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