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Show HN: SvelteKit SaaS Boilerplate to help launch your product fast (launchleopard.com)

26 points by thomasmol ↗ HN
Hi HN!

I am a indie hacker and love building apps with SvelteKit, so I built a boilerplate with the tech stack I always use.

It has almost everything needed to launch a SaaS/tool/AI app, like auth, db + orm, email, payments and styling.

You can view everything that's included on the website and the docs (https://docs.launchleopard.com)

Would love to hear what other features or tech you'd want to see in a boilerplate like this!

32 comments

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swalsh
I don't understand why I would want to buy this, everything you're "giving" me is available a few commands away using NPM.
thomasmol
Yes you're right, some of this can be easily installed with a few commands!

However, the boilerplate also has a lot of other api routes, components and demo pages to setup an app.

If you're capable of easily setting that up yourself then this might not be for you, that's totally fine of course!

_fat_santa
There's just not enough here to justify the price.
thomasmol
I can understand that! What would you like to see included that would justify the price for you?
_fat_santa
I honestly don't know. But from my perspective, this year I've spent probably in excess of 1000 hours working on my SaaS app, by contrast it took me maybe 3 days to setup all the required services to connect to Stripe, my analytics provider, etc.

Simply put, saving a few days of setup time does not cross the threshold of a product or service I would pay for. If this was something that would take me a few weeks or a month to put together myself then it would be a product I'd be willing to pay for.

Take a product like TailwindUI, it's expensive but also very worth it because it takes the time to build a professional landing page from 2-3 weeks of work down to 2-3 days of work.

rsp1984
You literally just valued your time at $13 per day.
metaloha
This is a huge problem in the tech world I think. I think of myself as $30/hour against purchases and subscriptions - each hour something saves me is worth $30.

This boilerkit is worth $39 to me because it would definitely take me longer than a couple hours to build myself. Someone else has already put in the 100 to 1000 hours to make it a decent experience.

altdataseller
Please solve some harder problems for me. I don't need this - there's so many tools that do this already. Boilerplate SaaS code is a commodity. Help me find customers, please
thomasmol
I understand! Perhaps I should include more tools and tutorials on marketing as well?
Lienetic
Does your auth implementation with authjs support refresh token rotation?
thomasmol
Currently no.. Going to have to add that still. The Auth.js devs have said that they're going to include zero-config support for this
Lienetic
If you add support for that then I'll buy this.
RamblingCTO
I get a 500
thomasmol
Mmm strange, could you share on what page exactly? Edit: got rate limited by the Github api haha, fixed now :)
sgaur
Getting a 500 on https://launchleopard.com/

<div class="flex h-screen flex-col justify-between scroll-smooth"><h1>500</h1> <p>Internal Error</p> <div id="svelte-announcer" aria-live="assertive" aria-atomic="true" style="position: absolute; left: 0px; top: 0px; clip: rect(0px, 0px, 0px, 0px); clip-path: inset(50%); overflow: hidden; white-space: nowrap; width: 1px; height: 1px;"></div></div>

minajevs
Looks like frontpage url (launchleopard.com) is not working - giving me 500 response. Then in docs neither starter repository buttons works - leads to 404. Is it built using your own boilerplate? If yes, then I am not buying :)
thomasmol
Haha yes, was an issue with a rate limit on the Github API, should be fixed now! Didn't expect this amount of traffic :) Docs were built with Mintlify and the links to the repos in the docs will work once you have accepted the invite (after making a purchase).
droptablemain
I've been seeing so many people trying to sell "kits" like this for Next.js and similar, it's quite strange as it's always mostly boilerplate code and otherwise freely available NPM packages.

These types of things should be "starter projects" and frankly they should be free on Github for anyone to download and learn with.

I have a hard time seeing any market for these kits outside of lazy junior developers.

realusername
I've setup my own internal kit (I'm not selling it now) and it's much work that you think to get the small details right and bring everything together properly.

I've spent a few days on it and the price is worth it to save that amount of work in my opinion.

4star3star
Wasn't it worth it to truly learn the internals, though?
thomasmol
Interesting thought, maybe I should add clear reasons why specific parts were included and how they work
realusername
Personally I've done it for that goal so yeah it was worth it but if you are looking to launch a project, I can understand that you might want to skip that step.
oooyay
Free boilerplate templates are often not maintained for that long, dare I say usually maintained as long as the author is interested in that particular stack. I think there's some value in offering a stack that has preconfigured settings for your IDE, linters, formatters etc as well as complicated things like multi-tenant databases. It eliminates a lot of toil when setting up a new product and generally the price for these kits is under $100.
Glench
Well for the JS ecosystem there's nothing dominant and beloved like Rails for Ruby, so it makes sense there would be more efforts to create coherent app architectures. Plus, if the boilerplate saves developer time to launch a business application then it saves potentially a lot of money.
lordofmoria
Glad to see DaisyUI on here - it’s a component library designed with tailwindcss - it hits that fine balance for component libraries between covering the hard-to-do stuff (modals, accordions, drop-down) without building such big components that you end up constantly tinkering to get what you want.
throwaway295729
This looks great, and I can certainly see this saving me some time!
iJohnDoe
I’m not a skilled enough developer.

I wanted to create a product to sell access to a URL endpoint that provides data. The URL is used within other products, like a SEIM, firewall, dashboard, etc.

I can create the URL endpoint, data, server infrastructure, etc. I also already have enterprise customers ready to subscribe.

However, I’m not skilled enough to create a storefront, auth, billing, etc. I tried finding a solution I could pay for, but it was a rabbit hole of solutions that would not work.

sickcodebruh
I know that it takes a lot of effort to setup these things but I wonder about the long term benefit to buyers. They’re buying into the Launch Leopard Architectural Philosophy, which they may or may not appreciate and grow the way they hope. Today’s unproved framework or boilerplate is tomorrow’s tech debt liability.

Did you consider adding guaranteed support or consulting hours to help buyers launch and grow? That would de-risk the initial buy and provide ongoing value. “Buy the starter, get X hours of time, I’ll be there to help you as a partner on your journey.” Then a contract (hourly, quarterly, yearly?) for continued engagement. Boilerplates are everywhere, relationships and guidance are not. I imagine that anyone in the market for this would see that as a major value add and differentiator.

thomasmol
Very interesting idea!

Currently I only have a discord channel for support and help, but your suggested approach of offering some included one on one consulting makes sense. I am gonna look into how I can implement this

devhe4d
Starter kits are helpful for beginners, but relying on them too much can be limiting.

It's crucial for developers to learn how to configure their own coding stack.

This foundational skill is key to growth and adaptability in tech. While starter kits offer a good starting point, they shouldn't replace the essential know-how of setup and configuration in my opinion.

djfdat
Congrats on the launch. I actually think this is a good idea as something to provide. As someone who just has time to dabble in web projects and loves to use Sveltekit, having something like this would be great, since I spend about the first 1-2 days relearning how to get everything started.

There are a few things that I am looking for before I'd buy this though:

- An update commitment. When I come back to doing web dev, I want to know that this boilerplate is up-to-date. For example, expect Sveltekit updates within 30 days of a major release, expect integration libraries updated within 90 days of major release, minor versions & patches will be updated automatically assuming they pass tests. - Integration testing. I'd like to know that each integration has tests written, and that they are still passing. I'd hate to spin up a project and run in to an issue, only to realize that either an integration hasn't been updated or that something there is failing. - A product roadmap. I'd like to know what other integrations are planned and when they can be roughly expected. - Launch Leopard Lite? A free boilerplate with Sveltekit+Tailwind+DaisyUI+SEO stuff to try things out.

Good luck!