Buildsaas updates, React sound libraries, Explore page on iHateReading and more
Tags: Buildsaas, Frontend Development, iHateReading Website, Posts.design, Movin.design
Hello and welcome to the new blog, folks
I am your author, Shrey
This blog is an interesting one, but it doesn't have any specific topic to write about!!
Buildsaas: My delulu is the only solulu 😀💁🏼
I read this tweet on x.com about boilerplate businesses.
The tweet: https://x.com/JanuBuilds/status/2088232655712108881
Most of us are thinking that AI might eat the boilerplate business in the next 2 years, but in reality, the picture is the inverse.
Boilerplate businesses are earning more than required, and the trend and demand are not going down anyway in the next 2 years. The main reason is the cost and time it usually takes to build entire SAAS products from scratch to production level.
It will cost > $1k for a developer to build a simple gettemplate.app or even a static kind of website because a website is not just a webpage but a combination of multiple things running and integrated in a well-designed system.
A website contains Authentication, Frontend pages, email, State management, and payment services, all running simultaneously for 100+ users on a daily basis, and that is why we have been building and upgrading Buildsaas.dev for the past year. I’ve built 6 apps in the past year using one boilerplate; all the products are LIVE and used by real-world people. Check all buildsaas.dev products on our examples page.
If you are building your next SAAS product or website, or an idea, feel free to try buildsaas.dev.
We provide proper documentation, notes, custom email and WhatsApp support, along with launch support to help you turn your idea into a reality.
New Explore Page on iHateReading
I always want to create something similar to daily.dev for our use case and product. Last year I've collected more than 100+ RSS feed websites that I can use to scrape or fetch the latest interesting blog content and renders them on the iHateReading explore page.
I quickly use the Nextjs server-side API to attach it with a CRON job, meaning run everyday twice, only 2 times per day and brings some solid, interesting internet scraped content.
Give it a try, ihatereading.in/explore
If you're wondering why, Nextjs server-side API?
Well, I don't want to complicate it, we ain't need a solid system design for the URLs or RSS feeds in total.
We have quite a couple of 100s of RSS feed links in total, and Next.js server-side is a server-side API that quickly runs in batches of 50 at a time to scrape the RSS feeds content.
If needed, I use our own scraping API to fetch more details or content from each URL; check it out.
Sounds-Based Interfaces
I've found a few more tweets regarding indie-hackers building SDKs for sounds on a website, click the button to invoke the sound instead of a ripple effect or other animations.
I've found it a very interesting concept; a website, in my opinion, should feel more realistic instead of being boring to use.
I've found a few libraries to add sound to your next React website project. Check them below
If needed, try using the useSound hook for integrating sounds on your website
Directory Listing Website: Aggregator Website
Directory websites are becoming a new trend; everyone in their domain wants to build a directory website showcasing inspirations, landing pages, tools, lists, templates — and what makes it interesting and in-demand is that it’s a money-printing machine.
Yes, a directory website in 2020 was a simple static website, and nobody paid attention to it, but in 2026, AI LLMs refer to directory websites finding tools that are cheap and better alternatives; indie-hackers are printing money from stupid, boring static listing websites — who knows that this is the future.
But I love directory websites; they provide so many solutions on one platform, saving us from too many tabs. If you need to build one, I’ve launched a new template on our website: a full-stack directory listing website template.
Built using Next.js, Tailwind, Shadcn, Supabase and Stripe. It provides frontend pages for your directory website, authentication for users to submit their tools, Payment integration using Stripe for slot booking and more such useful features, making it easy to build your directory website in a week, not months.
ToolDir
ToolDir: Directory full-stack website template — Shadcn, Next.js, Supabase and Stripe.
Get the Template: https://shreyvijayvargiya.gumroad.com/l/nextjs-supabase-directory-boilerplate
Cool lightweight Websites
I am always a fan of looking for inspirational websites, I love finding new cool interfaces, animations and solutions to improve my website development skills.
I believe that building a good interface website is an art; it does need more than coding, and that is why an AI agent won't take our job fully.
A few websites I've stumbled upon recently are as follows
That would be enough for today. Stay tuned, as I am working on bringing a new job section to iHateReading 😊, as it would help most of you reading on our website to grab a job as well.
That's it for today, see you in the next one
Cheers
Shrey
Originally published on iHateReading
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