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Best free, open-source SaaS starters for React & NextJS 2024

vincanger on January 23, 2024

TL;DR SaaS boilerplate starters are popping up everywhere, but they’re freakin’ expensive (~$200-$800). I wanted to find the best free,...
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Davor Runje

We used it to build a prototype of a SaaS and it will go live in 2-3 weeks. Amazing how quickly we were able to go from an idea to a fully functional product with Stripe integration, subscriptions and everything (captn.ai). Check it out, this is a game-changer!

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vincanger

wow, very nice! which boilerplate starter did you use?

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zvone187

Starters are the best - saves so much time setting up a project

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Mihovil Ilakovac • Edited

Why not just start from scratch and build your own "template"?

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vincanger

you could! and you would learn a lot in the process, but boilerplates save you tons of time. Plus, starters like Open SaaS that have detailed docs and allow you to be way more efficient.

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Bap

Really strong description for each one of them, thanks mate

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vincanger

yeah, we don't need anymore click-bait listicles :)

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Bap

🙃

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Jose E Saura

Champ

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vincanger

haha thanks

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vincanger

thank you, boss

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Dom Sipowicz

Amazing comparison! Thank you. You should do that every year. We need another one like that for e-commerce and AI kickstarters :D

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vincanger

OpenSaaS.sh has built in AI example app

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Francisco Moretti

Here is another simple one, similar to Next Saas Stripe Starter, but simpler and combined with T3 (including TRPC)

github.com/FranciscoMoretti/t3-saa...

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vincanger

ooh missed that one

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Random

Awesome starter kits ✨

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vincanger

🙏 thanks

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Matija Sosic

This is an awesome overview! I especially like the table where you neatly compared the starters across all the parameters. Thanks!

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vincanger

🙏

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Schalk Neethling

@vincanger Thank you for including BoxyHQ in your roundup! We are honored to be mentioned alongside these other great tools. We would love to get our ease of use up and would appreciate all feedback. 🙏

As our starter kit is open source, everyone is welcome to raise issues and make contributions to help us make this the best and easiest-to-use SaaS starter kit for folks building SaaS products with the aim of selling to enterprise clients. 🙌

Here is a link to the repository: github.com/boxyhq/saas-starter-kit