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I Built a SaaS Starter Kit, So You Don’t Have to Waste 4 Weeks on Setup

Every SaaS founder wastes the first month on auth, payments, and emails. BuildSAAS skips all of that.

Apr 13, 2026
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Apr 13, 2026
I’ve been building on the internet for a while now — products, templates, tools. And the single most frustrating part of launching anything new is always the same thing: setup.
You want to build your idea. But first you need:
  • Authentication (email + OAuth)
  • A payment system with webhooks
  • An email marketing pipeline
  • A blog or CMS
  • An admin dashboard
  • Role-based access control
  • A database schema
  • And on and on…
By the time you’ve wired all of this together, you’ve spent 4–6 weeks and haven’t built a single feature that’s unique to your product.
That’s exactly why I built BuildSAAS.

What is BuildSAAS?

BuildSAAS is a production-ready Next.js 15 SaaS starter boilerplate — everything you need to launch a subscription-based product, pre-wired and ready to go.
Not a tutorial. Not a YouTube series. Actual working code you clone, configure, and ship.
🚀 Demo: buildsaas-s18e.vercel.app
🛠 Admin: buildsaas-s18e.vercel.app/admin
📚 Docs: buildsaas-s18e.vercel.app/docs

What’s Inside

🔐 Authentication & User Management

Firebase Auth out of the box — email/password, Google OAuth, email verification, password reset, and full role-based permissions (Admin, Editor, Author, Viewer). Your users are handled from day one.

💳 Payments & Subscriptions

Polar integration gives you a full subscription lifecycle: checkout flow, webhook handling, cancellation, upgrade emails, revenue analytics, and customer records. Everything you need for a real billing system.

📧 Email Marketing

Resend integration with newsletter campaigns, batch sending (50 recipients per batch), transactional emails for subscription events, and delivery tracking. No third-party email SaaS subscription needed at the start — Resend’s free tier covers you up to 3,000 emails/month.

📝 Blog / CMS

A full blog system with a Tiptap rich text editor, markdown support, image uploads, draft/published workflow, and SEO-friendly slugs. Content management you’d normally pay a separate service for.

🖥 Admin Dashboard

A proper admin panel with analytics, user and customer management, payment tracking, contact form inbox, global search (Cmd+K), and role-based access. The kind of thing that takes weeks to design and build — already done.

The Tech Stack

No legacy dependencies. No bloated setup.
  • Frontend: Next.js 15.1.7, React 18, Tailwind CSS 3, Framer Motion, Lucide Icons
  • Backend / DB: Firebase (Auth, Firestore, Storage) + optional Supabase (PostgreSQL)
  • State: Redux Toolkit + TanStack Query (React Query)
  • Payments: Polar
  • Email: Resend
  • Editor: Tiptap with image uploads, markdown, text formatting, code blocks
  • Language: TypeScript throughout

Who Is This For?

Built for:
  • SaaS founders who want to ship in days, not months
  • Indie developers building subscription products
  • Startups that need a solid, scalable foundation
  • Agencies delivering client projects fast
  • Entrepreneurs validating ideas before over-investing
If you’ve ever stared at a blank Next.js project wondering where to start — this is your answer.

What You Actually Get

✅ Complete source code
✅ Admin dashboard
✅ Authentication system
✅ Payment & subscription flow
✅ Email marketing system
✅ Blog / CMS
✅ Database schema
✅ API endpoints
✅ UI components
✅ Full documentation
✅ Production-ready, TypeScript codebase
Time saved: 4–6 weeks of development.

Quick Start

Getting up and running takes minutes, not days:
  • Clone or download the boilerplate
  • npm install
  • Configure your environment variables
  • Set up Firebase, Resend, and Polar (all free tiers available)
  • npm run dev
  • Start building what makes your product unique

Why I Built This

I’ve spent years building products — and every single time, the first few weeks are the same grind. I wanted to stop repeating myself and create the foundation I wish existed when I started.
BuiltSAAS is that foundation. It’s not a toy project. It’s the real thing — production code, proper architecture, the integrations that every SaaS eventually needs.
Price: $49 — one time.
Get BuildSAAS →
Questions? Reach out on Twitter or email me directly. I’m happy to help you get set up.
Keep building,
Shrey

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