This is a submission for the Neon Open Source Starter Kit Challenge : Ultimate Starter Kit
Django SaaS Boilerplate/Staterkit
This is a production ready Django SaaS Starter kit. You should focus on building your core functionality and skip writing repetitive code. This starterkit Comes packed with responsive design, landing page, Payment integration, blog, Custom user model, modern admin, sitemap and more.
Django is a popular choice among SaaS developers due to its flexibility, security and ability to rapidly develop and add features to their SaaS.
However, setting things up in the beginning would take time, such as making it Production ready, adding environment variables, adding blogs, creating the base template, payments and more. I tried to address many of these repetitive tasks by building this boilerplate
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Demo and link
Github repo: Ultimate Django SaaS starterkit
Try it out: Django Demo website (login password below 👇️)
To test admin login use.
demo@mail.com
demo123*
Note
You will not receive any confirmation email upon signup as its disabled, use the above account to login to admin dashboard
For testing stripe check out test cards: https://docs.stripe.com/testing
Features Packed for SaaS projects 🤩
- Production ready, you can immediately deploy this to cloud such as Vercel, Railway.app, Render.com etc.
- Comes with a landing page that you can modify.
- Responsive design, forget about making things responsive yourself, as it comes with a responsive
base.html, you can extend from. - Pricing page
- Postgres database ready. 💾
- ESP integration - Use transactional emails at scale. 📨
- Modern admin - uses unfold admin module. 🌟
- Payment integration - Default Stripe integration, just add your stripe keys and get started 💵
- Recurring charges
- Custom user model.
- Login and Signup flow, including, verification email, resend token, password reset.
- Contact us page.
- 404 page
- Has blog with pagination and Trix WYSIWYG editor built into the admin panel, so you can share articles with ease and build your SEO Game. 📖
- Technical SEO optimization.
- Dynamic Sitemap.xml
- Robots.txt
- Google analytics
- Django storages integration for production (default Google Object storage)
- Tailwind css setup for rapid development (note: the tailwind classes are prefixed with
tw-, to differentiate them)
Well looks like you just saved over 60+ hrs of work and headaches.
Oh! wait
If you don't want to deal with landing page, I have also made prebuilt landing pages so you can focus on shipping, iterating and marketing your SaaS instead of wasting time on non-trivial things.
PaulleDemon
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awesome-landing-pages
Free to use landing pages for SaaS developers, freelancers, agencies and businesses
Free Landing page templates
Contains free and open-sourced website templates, including but not limited to SaaS landing page, portfolio, Restaurant page and more. Useful, for freelancers, agencies, SaaS developers, and more.
Download from browsable page: https://awesome-landingpages.vercel.app/
Updated weekly
New templates will be uploaded every Friday. Feel free to star this repository 🌟.
Have a generic template in mind?
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Create a new template issue, once your template request have enough thumbs up, we'll make one.
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If you are looking for a custom one, contact here
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Table of content
Whom is this Django Stater pack meant for?
- Solo SaaS developers, freelancers and Businesses
- For people building an MVP(minimum viable product) and trying to ship as quickly as possible.
- People looking to learn Django.
- People who just finished building core functionality and are looking to integrate landing page, blog, payment etc.
Getting started with the boilerplate
step 1: 🌟 Star the repo: https://github.com/PaulleDemon/Django-SAAS-Boilerplate
step 2: Clone the repo
git clone https://github.com/PaulleDemon/Django-SAAS-Boilerplate
step 3: Install dependencies in an environment (creating an environment is optional, but recommended)
pip install -r requirements.txt
step 4: Add a .env file inside the project folder with the following
DEBUG=1
PYTHON_VERSION=3.10
DOMAIN=""
ALLOWED_HOSTS=".up.railway.app, .vercel.app"
ALLOWED_CORS=""
SECRET_KEY=""
PORD_SECRET_KEY=""
DJANGO_SUPERUSER_EMAIL="" # optonal use if you want to create supruser using --noinput
DJANGO_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD="" # optonal use if you want to create supruser using --noinput
EMAIL_HOST="smtpout.server.net"
EMAIL_HOST_USER=""
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD=""
POSTGRES_DATABASE=""
POSTGRES_USER=""
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=""
POSTGRES_HOST=""
POSTGRES_URL=""
PROJECT_ID="" # firebase project id
BUCKET_NAME=".appspot.com" # firebase storage name
FIREBASE_CRED_PATH="project/firebase-cred.json"
FIREBASE_ENCODED=""
CLOUD_PLATFORM="RAILWAY"
GOOGLE_ANALYTICS="G-"
STRIPE_TEST_API_KEY=""
STRIPE_WEBHOOK_TEST_API_KEY=""
STRIPE_PUB_TEST_KEY=""
STRIPE_PROD_API_KEY=""
STRIPE_WEBHOOK_PROD_API_KEY=""
STRIPE_PUB_PROD_KEY=""
Step 5: Now in your terminal Create databases and Tables using
python manage.py migrate
Step 6: Now run the website from the terminal using.
python manage.py runserver
step 7: To run Tailwind CSS open a new terminal and run
python manage.py tailwind start
Note: If you are facing problems starting this program in windows OS, remove logging from project/settings.py
Vola! that's it now your starterkit running
Admin superuser
You admin will be located at: http://localhost:8000/admin
To create superuser use:
python manage.py createsuperuser
Deployment and more
You can deploy to Vercel for free, it also includes Neon postgres DB in its free tire 😉. The demo repo uses Vercel and Neon.
You can now read more about production settings in the readme file
PaulleDemon
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Django-SAAS-Boilerplate
Supercharge your SAAS development using the django SAAS Boilerplates
Django SaaS Boilerplate (production ready)
Focus on building your core functionality, skip writing repetitive code. Comes packed with landing page, Payment integration, blog, User model, sitemap and more.
Why use Django SaaS boilerplate?
Using a Django saas boilerplate can save you a lot of time, which is a huge benefit. Most customers don't care if you start from scratch or use a template; they just want their problem solved quickly. Whether you use Django or another framework usually doesn't matter to them as long as the job gets done efficiently.
This boilerplate can help you save hours of work, allowing you to focus on core functionality of your SaaS instead of spending a lot of time on setting up stripe, blog, login functionalities and landing page.
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who is this boilerplate suitable for?
- Reduce repetitive parts and focus…
More Tutorials to get you started
- Adding Stripe to your Django SaaS
- Adding ESP to send emails at scale
- Deploying your Django SaaS to vercel
Follow and updates
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Upcoming project
My another upcoming open-source project is an extension, made to help you decide and pick better fonts for your website. You can test 1000+ fonts directly on your website. Its currently submitted for review, So if you want updates on that, you can visit Github Font Tester.
Thanks! Continue shipping your projects to production 🚀
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Top comments (5)
The Django SaaS Starter Kit is fantastic! I think it would be even more powerful if it included a wizard or configuration tool that allows users to specify their project needs upfront. For example, if you don’t need a payment module or a blog, you could select these options before generating the project. This would result in a project tailored to your specific requirements from the start, greatly speeding up development. Of course, you could always add additional modules like payment or blog later if needed. This feature would make the starter kit even more useful and efficient.
I could even sponsor this if needed! 😊
Hey,
Thank you for your kind words!
I've been planning to create a webpage/CLI that dynamically adds modules based on developers' needs. However, lately I've been balancing open-source contributions with looking for small contract work, so progress has been a bit slow.
I primarily fund my open-source work through custom projects, but unfortunately, my previous client didn’t pay up, which has made things a bit challenging. That’s why I decided to participate in this challenge.
If you’re able to sponsor my work or have any projects you could delegate to me—like custom landing pages or Django/React-related tasks—I’d be more than happy to help. With sufficient funds, I could prioritize implementing this as early as possible.
The commits in your repo are 2 months old...
Thanks for your comment!
Yes, I started working on this 2 months ago, and I am constantly pushing updates and patches to make sure that the SaaS developers using my starterkit are always upto date, getting new features and bug fixes, so they won't have to worry about the maintenance.
Thought this would be a perfect competition to show some of my open-source Django starterkit, and help other developers find the starterkit and save time. 😉