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Hi HN!

I kept rewriting the same foundation for every SaaS I built — auth, payments, email, logging, environment setup — so I packaged it all up as SaaS Forge.

It’s a modular boilerplate generator for SaaS apps with AI in mind. You can use it two ways:

* 1. Open-source CLI (free, unlimited)*

  npx saas-forge my-app

* 2. Web Scaffold (20 credits)*

Live at: boilerplate.bayesian-labs.com

A guided UI that helps you select features, configure env vars (e.g. auth keys, DB URLs, etc.), and deploy correctly.

What you get out of the box: - Auth: Better Auth — email/password + GitHub, Google, LinkedIn OAuth + email verification + password reset - Payments: Dodo Payments/ Stripe — webhooks, credit system - Database: PostgreSQL(AWS RDS/Neon/Supabase/Railway) + Prisma ORM - Storage: Vercel Blob / Cloudflare R2 - Email: Resend / SMTP (Coming Soon) - Analytics: Google Analytics / Vercel Analytics - Security: Upstash Rate Limit - API: tRPC end-to-end type safety - CMS: Notion as a headless CMS for landing pages, docs, and legal pages - Caching: Redis via Upstash - Logging: Winston + Logtail + BetterStack (with guided env setup in the web scaffold) - UI: shadcn ui + aceternity ui+ Tailwind CSS 4 + Framer Motion + 50+ components - Monorepo: Turborepo + pnpm workspaces

Idea is simple: skip boilerplate and ship what’s actually unique in your product.

The CLI is free and open-source — fork it, extend it, or just use it raw. The web scaffold is for folks who want error-proof setup with minimal config.

Live demo: https://boilerplate.bayesian-labs.com GitHub: https://github.com/anoopkarnik/saas-forge Docs: https://boilerplate.bayesian-labs.com/landing/doc Demo Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zpQTtcsPtk

Happy to answer anything about design decisions, architecture, or roadmap. Would love feedback — what’s missing, broken, or too much?

Please star the repo, if you find usage of this repo.