Has anyone ever paid for SaaS boilerplate?
Like many others I started down the road of building my own and have had 0 sales so far.
The response seems to be a combination of "I already have something I put together" or "I'm happy with my stack".
So is anyone paying for these or are we just trying to sell each other our code in an endless cycle?
I haven't paid for one but I built https://usegravity.app and sold close to 400 copies now.
It sounds like you're targeting the wrong people, but also you are probably too late to the party if you're building a Javascript boilerplate.
There are a number of well-established boilerplates on the market now for different languages and it's difficult for new ones to offer anything different since the market needs have already been met and buyers want something that has been tried and tested.
I see new ones pop up every week then disappear as quickly. If you really want to go down this path my advice would be to build something for a language/stack that doesn't already have an established solution.
Yes, I regretted it. Won’t do it again, especially for >$100
This is probably also not going to be a helpful answer. I have my own getparthenon.com that is built in PHP/Symfony.
I've gotten sales. Not many. But what I've seen while paying attention to others like Kyle who has responded. Is that it's very much something people think about getting for a long time before they actually buy it. People are often thinking about buying it for months or years before actually buying it. So it's one of those things where people need to keep hearing about you until they're ready to buy. I can tell you from the way my signups go for the trials, that it takes a while of them just constantly hearing about you to start moving down the marketing funnel.
It's also very much stack driven if you're targeting developers. Since they often want to build using the tech stack they use. So if you're using a tech stack that is rare or not well known, you may need to spend a lot to time educating people on that tech stack.
One thing I'm also seeing a lot is that people try one and it doesn't go well, for example, they're end up having problems customising it because a lot of the code is only designed to do one thing. So the issue is trying to make your code very customisable. With Parthenon, I've done this by making everything replaceable, this is actually part of my original idea. To the point, I built 3 different applications on different tech platforms, with different sign-up mechanisms, different purposes, etc. So Parthenon is built from the ground up to be extremely flexible. And I provide the basics of UI which can be easily replaced or extended. So I would suggest trying to make it clear that you're not locking people into a specific way of something working.
Lots i imagine the popular saas boilerplate guys are claiming some big revenue numbers
, can’t rem where I saw that though