Am I trying to reinvent something that already exists?
Hi!
So I recently crafted codedrifter.co, which is a collection of high quality, tested and weekly updated project boilerplates.
I showed the product to some friends, and they rapidly told me that this is the same as looking for an starter in Google / Github, but those starters presents some problems (I face them constantly)
- They sometimes are not updated
- They are not tested
- They don't combine all the technologies you want
What do you think, is this a different approach or do you feel this is the same?
While I see where you're going with this, parts of it already exist.
The "React + TailwindCSS Starter" for example is pretty simple to set up and can be done with a single command. Why pay 3.99 for something that takes a few seconds to look up, and a few seconds to install. If you really needed to use it multiple times Github allows you to create a repository as template, so if I need a specific set of packages for future projects it's really simple to set up. As for them not being updated often, that's a good thing. It would be a nightmare to update all your projects if a new version was released every week, we really only care about major versions or important bug fixes.
I could be wrong though, a junior might find it useful but for me personally it doesn't add any benefit.
If this doesn't gain any traction you could pivot on this idea. Instead of charging for individual boilerplates, list everything available (React, Webpack, Typescript) and let a user pick and choose their configuration, then save it for future use. Perhaps a subscription might work better.
Yep exactly what I was thinking
What I tested so far is that people is interested in high quality JS boilerplates, but maybe not the way I think.
So Im thinking to pivot to:
A collection of boilerplates, you pay once, and got access to all of them as a bundle, maybe 50+ boilerplates (all of them tested and updated, we used CI webhooks for this)
A configurator like you say, so you configure your project and you download it, but not sure about the suscription model
Would you be interested as a dev in having access to 50+ modern JS boilerplates for a bundle price for example?
Thanks for the feedback!
I agree, the pay once model with full access to a range of boilerplates would work better.
Awesome, thanks for the help!