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Cool idea! I would use something like this to discover AI-related Python starter apps and guides to integrate AI into my projects.

I built a free Django and React starter repo for https://learndjangoreact.com, and can share some feedback from that perspective:

1) I’m hesitant to post it because I don’t want to create a new account or connect my GitHub to promote a free repo.

2) I think Google is good enough for anyone looking for a Django and React starter app, especially since I already have a site for it. GitHub search is pretty good too.

3) I built my starter app mostly for myself to build new ideas faster, and I already moved on to a new idea (https://mailgrid.app) — so any effort spent on this feels like energy taken from that, etc.

4) I think new developers should pick whatever stack that inspires them, and I don’t expect my starter app to appeal to a wide audience.

Hope that helps!

Thank you!

1) That is a reasonable point. We request the most granular features we can to make our app work. For OAuth, just the minimum profile info. For connecting repos, you can give access to just the repo you want to list, and we access repository hooks so we can update our listing when you update the repo. I listed some public repos that I'll have to manually update, so maybe I can allow others to do the same and just have a cron that does it. We also ask for administration permissions so we can add buyers to private repos. Unfortunately GitHub doesn't seem to allow more dynamic permissions to only apply to private repos and not public ones.

2) Valid. Maybe this is more suited for the premium case where you'd like to find starters where the creator has a paid incentive to keep updating and addressing issues.

3) If you charged for it and got people buying, maybe you would feel differently?

4) I agree developers should pick the group of tools they are interested in, but they still have to piece them together, which can be more work than the project itself in the worst-case scenario. If someone wanted to work with Django and React, I think being handed a starter with some instructions would get them running faster than having to understand at the core how they can work together and actually getting that functional.

Your own example reminds me of one feature I'd like to add is a "built with" section for each starter that would show live projects that started with it.

Anyways thanks for the feedback! Really valuable for me.

For now, I went ahead and listed your repo myself! I'm still thinking about allowing users without accounts posting repos because of the potential for spam. I notice other directory sites typically require some user info as well, so let me know if you have any ideas about that.

Thanks for launching! I want to submit mine, but can you please add Dart (language) and Flutter (framework?).

My starter project is for Flutter, https://github.com/wiradikusuma/starter-flutter and it's part of my upcoming book about building mobile apps, https://opinionatedlaunch.com/

Thank you for the interest and sorry about missing those! They are added now :) Good luck with your own project! Let me know if there are any features that starter.place could add to help you.

Thanks! Actually I noticed 2 issues in any starter project:

1. First thing someone does after clone is search-and-replace e.g. com.example to com.mycompany. Sometimes it results in broken code or partial replacement e.g. bcoz the phrase is whitespace-separated.

2. Starter code can be very complex. For my starter project, I ensure each commit is "atomic" e.g. one commit for unit tests, another for swagger-generation. So that people can follow it easily.

So I'm just wondering if you can "standardize" those two, or even provide "UI"?

Those are important but tough problems!

1. I feel like codemods and a setup shell prompt are the best solution to this, but this looks different for each language (eg, in JS there is https://github.com/facebook/jscodeshift). I could make UI around that for listers to provide parts of the app that should replaced and buyers to provide values for it, but it could be quite a rabbit hole. This is actually why I show the README for the repos, so users can see if the setup steps are comprehensive before buying (for paid ones).

2. I agree atomic commits can help someone navigate a new codebase. In the same spirit as my response to #1, I don't feel confident I could enforce this, but I could surface the commits on the starter repo page so potential buyers could see if the author laid things out well.

Thanks for the ideas!

Looks cool. A search functionality would be nice.

I am the kind of person who wants the easiest possible set up for my ideas so I can make them in a weekend. I also want them to be server hostable for as little money as possible.

Firebase or Amplify are great for making things really quickly. But even last weekend, dealing with Amplify for the first time, there are still a ton of things that aren't done for you that I'd like.

A proper Amplify + Next.JS + Typescript + Tailwind starter would be nice. Those tools are great for speed running your side projects. And Amplify does the CI/CD + hosting + domain set up for you.

Search it is! I could implement search that searches for exact tokens in the tools the author connected and the README, but I want to wait for anything more until EdgeDB releases its full-text search solution https://github.com/edgedb/rfcs/blob/master/text/1015-full-te...

I actually had a feature in mind where people could vote on starters they want and others could build them out and list them for free or a price. Do you think that would fit your needs and is there anything in particular you'd want to see in a feature like that?

I added a basic search functionality!

I like this idea! Internally we are already pushing the idea of accelerator repos for different types of development tied to specific data sources, or types of infra.

congrats on launch, OP.

personally i cant wait for starters to become unnecessary. the need for all these PxMxN permutations of tech stacks is just untenable. great place for some handwavy AI action here.

Completely agree! If I want to add TailwindCSS to NextJs, which I would assume a lot devs are doing, I have to run many setup scripts and edit files, I think this is redundant. Could be easily automated, since most of it is standardised.

Totally agree and I think we are actually going toward that fast (though you could probably argue the opposite) with frameworks like Next and Remix supporting tools other than React. The permutations will be built into the frameworks so it's all connected automatically for you based on the tools you choose during setup. Before we get there though, I have seen some big starter businesses like https://saasrock.com/ https://usegravity.app/ etc and thought this might help people discover such solutions as well as their free counterparts in a single place

Getting application error on mobile clicking reset

Oh no! I can't repro so maybe it was transient due to load or something? Vercel unfortunately doesn't give non-live logs unless you pay. If you could share the exact error, I could probably investigate more.

I looked into this more and it's quite interesting because it only happens in production, not on localhost. I think it happens when you have many categories selected, which makes the url thousands of characters long. Even though Chrome and most browsers support nearly unbounded urls, I think the server it's hosted on may not. It might be chopping off some of the URL, so I have one easy win for shortening it and will do that asap and see if it solves it. Thanks for your patience!

Edit: Looks like it fixed it

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