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Building Asknes SaaS Boilerplate — question for other indie devs

Sold my first copy this week (source code for an AI study assistant — multi-LLM chat, RAG with citations, OCR fallback, Stripe billing pre-wired). Working on the next iteration now.

For those of you selling boilerplates/starter kits: what convinced you to pull the trigger on one, vs. building from scratch? Trying to figure out what to prioritize in the docs/examples

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    You are 100% right. It's incredibly easy to pack 20 pre-built features into a boilerplate, but the real test (and moment of truth) happens the moment you need to build something custom without breaking what's already there. I'm actually working on a short guide/video demonstrating 'How to add X (e.g., a new route with webhook processing or a notification system) into the existing architecture'. If you could pick just one thing you'd love to see added from scratch in this architecture, what would it be?"
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    You are 100% right. It's incredibly easy to pack 20 pre-built features into a boilerplate, but the real test (and moment of truth) happens the moment you need to build something custom without breaking what's already there. I'm actually working on a short guide/video demonstrating 'How to add X (e.g., a new route with webhook processing or a notification system) into the existing architecture'. If you could pick just one thing you'd love to see added from scratch in this architecture, what would it be?"
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    I think examples are probably more important than another 20 features. If I'm buying a starter, I want to see what happens when I need to add something that wasn't included in the original project. A good "add X to this existing architecture" example would probably convince me more than a huge feature list.
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