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unraveller
No screenshots of example dashboard? It's easy to make few elements look good for a landing template.

I never get the point of these SaaS starters, it's like building the entryway separately to the rest of the house. The only real advantage seems to be the cohesive login/register modal design to the landing page.

fulco__
The component library used is shadcn-svelte where you can find a dashboard and examples from here: https://www.shadcn-svelte.com/

This is not about a component library but setting up the database, orm, login, flow etc. People are selling these kind templates for 200 bucks at the moment (e.g https://shipfa.st/) so I'd thought people would enjoy it if I released mine for free.

absqueued
This is absolutely great work Fulco! Good starter and looking forward to contribute to it.
ohghiZai
Yeah I just checked out a few others, so I definitely appreciate your work!

Starred, will try out soon!

martypitt
Is this real? The "Click on the Laptop", along with the rickroll suggests that this is a gimmick.

The only other thing is to log in, with an email address. Given how questionable the site seems, I bailed.

fulco__
There is a link on the github there. This site is purely an example of the login flow you get when using the template
cchance
I mean .. or you could click the github to the actual project
codingglass
There's a dependency resolution error when trying to `npm install`. I opened an issue on GH - would love to test-drive this.
fulco__
oops I'll look into that I use pnpm myself.

Edit: It is not really due to the package manager or node version. This is use svelte 5 which should be close to official release but is still in alpha. Not every package supports it yet

simple10
Looks promising but doesn't yet have payment integrations from what I can tell. It's more of a website-with-login boilerplate vs SaaS boilerplate.

But I'm a big fan of svelte and enjoy seeing all these new svelte starter kits.

fulco__
I want to add that next! But I thought it would already be useful in it's current form.

Still looking into whether I'm going with stripe or lemonsqueezy

ivanjermakov
What level of abstraction is it? Anyone counting?

Machine code < C++ < Web browser < JavaScript < Svelte < SvelteKit < This

phpisatrash
Just use assembly. I'm sure you will get your project done .
piterrro
I'm waiting for a tool that will do the documentation, marketing, blog, GTM for me. Building the app is like 20% of work actually...
leoff
do you think this is always the case, or it's just your perspective as a dev?

could it be that someone from sales/marketing say that these things are only 20% of the work for them, and building the app is the 80%?

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swyx
i love that sveltekit is picking up as a tool of choice for SaaS specifically (as opposed to just websites). this is dreadfully needed as really the only viable alternative to next.js.
fakedang
I wish shadcn ui would also be usable for Svelte (currently only available for react). It's so pleasant, even if at the cost of making every SaaS website look the same.
fulco__
This template actually uses shadcn-svelte
cchance
this is based on the port to svelte shadcn-svelte :)
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Scarbutt
Does that torso thing allows querying all databases at once with one query?
keb_
I've come to the conclusion that the only boilerplate ever worth using is your own. Boilerplates tend to become outdated fast since they're usually a hodgepodge of dependencies that were never tailored for your use-case or coding preferences.
quickthrower2
Yes, but with one twist. Clone other people’s boilerplates, have a snoop around, and you may discover techniques or libraries you want to use!
cchance
I posted a github issue, your site mentions you use rewind for email, you meant resend :)