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Raman Mohammed
Raman Mohammed

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Why I decided to give away my UI library for free (and just sell the boilerplate)

Hey everyone! πŸ‘‹

I've been building Launcho, a Next.js SaaS boilerplate, for the last few days. Its very early stage, but I've gotten started with building the UI components and marketing blocks.

Originally, my idea was to lock everything behind a paywall. You know, the usual "buy the kit to see the components" thing, like many other platform has it, such as Shadcnblock, etc (most of these are easily recreatable with AI anyway).

So starting this weekend, most of the UI Blocks are gonna be free. I'm adding a "Copy Code" button to the library. You can just grab the Hero, Features, Testimonials, etc., and drop them into your project. No signup needed, which you can find here: https://launcho.dev/blocks

If the UI is free, the Pro kit is the Fullstack Project.

The PRO kit is supposed to cover everything needed for a boilerplate NextJS, such as analytics, authentication, authorisation, payment, SEO, email, alternative backend architecture REST, gRPC, etc.

The goal is more for me to be able to publish many indie project, much quicker, as rewriting this for each project feels a bit tedious.

Anyway, I am trying to build in public, so if you have any tech stack preferences or ideas please share them! And if you want to support, joining the waitlist would really make my day: https://launcho.dev/waitlist

Have a great evening.

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Maame Afua A. P. Fordjour

As someone focused on DevOps and automation, I love that you're treating your boilerplate as an internal 'platform' to launch projects faster. Decoupling the UI from the Pro kit logic is a great way to build trust with the community while selling the actual time-saver: the infrastructure. Best of luck with the launch!