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I pre-built all the boring SaaS setup so you can actually ship ideas in a weekend

So I kept watching devs spend 3 weeks configuring auth and Stripe and database migrations before they even touch their actual product idea, and honestly it was driving me nuts, like why are we all rebuilding the same infrastructure over and over, so I just pre-built everything into a starter you can clone and actually start building your thing immediately

The part that actually makes this useful tho is I structured it specifically so AI coding agents don't get lost, like I've been using Claude and Cursor to build features and the biggest problem was always the AI hallucinating broken code because it couldn't understand my project structure, so I organized everything with super clear conventions and comments that agents can actually parse, made the database schema migrations dead simple so it doesn't generate garbage SQL, idk it just works way better when you're pair programming with AI now

shipahe.ad gives you working auth, Stripe subscriptions, Postgres setup, email sending, multi-language routing, all the stuff that takes forever but doesn't differentiate your product at all, and then you can literally describe your feature to an AI agent and it'll build on top of this foundation in like 48 hours instead of waiting a month, I used it to validate two ideas last month and one's already making money

What I'm actually curious about is what you'd rip out first, like if you were trying to ship something this weekend what's the one piece of this setup you'd say nah I don't need that yet, because I'm wondering if I over-engineered parts of it

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    I built a SaaS starter that removes all the boring setup so you can ship real product ideas in a weekend with AI.

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    The AI agent structure point is underrated. I just shipped a SaaS on a similar stack (Next.js 15, Supabase, Stripe, Cloudflare Workers) and the biggest friction with Claude/Cursor wasn't writing code — it was the AI losing context about where things lived and generating SQL that broke migrations.

    To answer your question: I'd rip out multi-language routing first. It sounds like a day-one feature but it's almost never what determines if an idea is worth pursuing. Auth, payments, and DB setup — yes, those are painful and worth standardizing. i18n can wait until you have users who need it.

    Checking out shipahead now.