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πŸ”₯ 9 Open-Source Repos That Will Make Your SaaS Gold πŸ€”

Nathan Tarbert on October 26, 2023

Building a software-as-a-service (SaaS) from the ground up can be a time-intensive chore. Don't fret, there are pre-configured SaaS boilerplates a...
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Nevo David β€’

Great projects!
All of them! :)

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Raul Ferreira β€’

I took a look at your project, I thought it was phenomenal, I hope one day to appear in an email with it LOL 🦀.

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Nathan Tarbert β€’

Thanks @nevodavid!

BTW, nice job creating trending-list, I'm using it so I will be notified when BoxyHQ repos as well as side projects start trending. It was a nice bonus to add to the list.

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bachhieu β€’

hay lam!

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Matthew Gregory β€’

Thanks for adding Ockam to the list! If anyone here wants to learn more, or join our community, swing by our Discord to say 'hey'.

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Nathan Tarbert β€’

No problem @mattgreg! Ockam has some really great end-to-end encryption features and I thought it was very fitting to add to the mix of fitting inside a SaaS as a tool to boost security.

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Meenakshi Agarwal β€’ β€’ Edited

Amazing resources and more than that you have compiled and enriched these with relevant details quite nicely. Bookmarking...

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Nathan Tarbert β€’

That’s great to hear, thank you so much 😊

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Sushruth Shastry β€’

I had almost gotten convinced that these list articles were AI generated entry level ones that just summarize GitHub trending page or something of that sort but this one is actually good. Bookmarking it.

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Haha I’m very flattered by your comment. I appreciate that 😁

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Saurabh Rai β€’

Meltano is a really nice project πŸ”₯. And superb article @nathan_tarbert amazing list.

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Nathan Tarbert β€’

Thanks @srbhr!

I just came across Meltano recently and was impressed with their huge list of connectors.

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Eden Federman β€’

Exciting projects! Can't wait to try these out

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Nathan Tarbert β€’

Cool @edenfed, post your feedback. I would love to hear your experience.

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Kamaal Abshir β€’

I stumbled upon this article just when I needed it the most. At that time, I was diligently working on developing my SaaS app, and I found myself investing significant effort in building everything from scratch.

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Nathan Tarbert β€’

Wow thanks so much for the feedback @mhbaando, that is great to hear!

Please reach out to me on X with an update twitter.com/nathan_tarbert

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Jarod Stewart β€’

Shout out to Novu, the open-source notification infrastructure for developers.

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Nathan Tarbert β€’

Agreed! Novu is pretty awesome :)

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TΓΌrker TUNALI ⚑ β€’ β€’ Edited

Or just use Frappe Framework :)

Nice list by the way. Bookmarked.

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Nathan Tarbert β€’

Thank you!
Nice addition @turker_tunali

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Flowzai β€’

Surprising content, thank you

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Nathan Tarbert β€’

Thank you @flowzai for the positive feedback :)

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Okoro chimezie bright β€’

thanks alot for this helpful content

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Nathan Tarbert β€’

You're very welcome Okoro ❀️

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Olamide Oso β€’

Pretty great stuffs, gotta save it for later

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Nathan Tarbert β€’

Thanks @vicveksr9485!

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Nathan Tarbert β€’

Supabase base is definitely awesome!

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Geri MΓ‘tΓ© β€’

Great list, saved for later!

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Nathan Tarbert β€’

Nice!

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Glenn Gillen β€’

Love this!

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Nathan Tarbert β€’

Thank you!

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Johannes β€’

It's okay you didn't include Formbricks, cant make it into every of your cool articles πŸš€

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Nathan Tarbert β€’

Hey @jobenjada, trust me I still love Formbricks :) I didn't want to wear out the welcome ;)

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elite morty β€’

interesting projects

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Nathan Tarbert β€’

Yes, they are, I agree!

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James Ritchie β€’

Love this list! πŸ”₯

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Nathan Tarbert β€’

Thank you!!!!

I'm glad it resonates with you @samejr!

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Shreya β€’

Thanks for sharing cool projects @nathan_tarbert

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Nathan Tarbert β€’

Thank you @shreya_gr for the great feedback :)

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Raul Ferreira β€’

Thanks for the list, I'm excited to delve deeper into some of it to do a little project LOL 🦀.

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Nathan Tarbert β€’

Awesome @raulferreirasilva, that was the point of putting this article together :)

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Md Shykat β€’

Great, thanks a lot.

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Nathan Tarbert β€’

You’re welcome!

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Mike Stemle β€’

If someone using all of the projects on this click-bait-ey list is not well-versed in security best practices, a breach seems likely.

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Nathan Tarbert β€’

A SaaS app is never a one size fits all. There are some very great services that can be accompanied that will improve your security which was the idea behind this list.

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Mike Stemle β€’

While I agree, I think this list promises otherwise.

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Nathan Tarbert β€’

Hi @manchicken, every organization has a different use case. Security should be a top priority which is why I hand-picked certain vendors that can deliver based on the organization's needs.

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Mike Stemle β€’

In what way is an open source project a vendor capable of delivering what an organization needs if they don’t know what they need themselves?

It seems like you’re trivializing the difficulty involved here so that you can have a flashier listicle.

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Kumar Kalyan β€’ β€’ Edited

Indeed its a great list but I was wondering that how do you make those star buttons using markdown ?

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Lucca Biagi de Paula Prado β€’

Those are great projects! Is incredible that we can build an entire application entirely for free (or almost. We should donate or contribute to these projects)

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Nathan Tarbert β€’

@luccabiagi, yes exactly!

I should probably mention in the article that the BoxyHQ SaaS Starter Kit is completely free :)

Thanks for the reminder!