Show IH: Laaso the SaaS boilerplate built with AWS
Howdy 👋,
I wanted to share the SaaS Boilerplate I've been working on using the AWS serverless stack.
My intention for building this was to help indie hackers new to AWS start building (and deploying) more cost effective apps.
I've used other app hosting services like, Render and Azure but AWS seems to be the most cost effective. Some of these other hosting platforms even use AWS in the background to reduce their costs.
So why not cut out the middle man? The only problem is AWS and serverless tech can be confusing and overwhelming so I set out to build a more approachable solution that will help new AWS developers and veterans alike build their SaaS products quickly and easily.
If you're interested it's in early access and probably as cheap as it'll ever be 🤠.
https://johngrisham.gumroad.com/l/laaso
Or just check out the landing page, that's cool too...
As a developer, I would like to see an architecture diagram so that I'd know what exactly I'll be getting from this template.
Was the site built with Notion? I personally found the emojis before each bullet point quite a distraction. Especially when it came down to the feature list
In my opinion, a SaaS boilerplate has to do a lot more than just underlying infrastructure :) I want my marketing site, docs, blog, payments integration, email collection / sending, customer support tools, auth, database, analytics, single page app all wired up and ready to go
There's plenty more for me to add and I'll consider your opinion on each of these.
As for the auth and database both of those are included with the beta version.
I plan on adding some landing page templates and payment integration in a future release.
The nice part is the LTD gives you access to all major releases including the next one 🤠.
As for the product... I'm not sure if I would want another cli to just provision and configure services on AWS for me. I'd be happier if you sold the terraform / cloudformation template outright so that I can at least tweak it to my liking. Then again there's probably a ton of these out there on GitHub which I can adapt to suit my needs
Thanks for commenting,
The idea is to get started as quickly as possible.
The current version has cloudformation templates for the Appsync backend that are very customizable but work out of the box.
I'm actually working on moving to the CDK for the next release and am putting together a repo to help developing with those smaller parts easier using the CDK.
I may even include cli tools for creating bare resources like dynamodb tables etc.
Do any of those changes sound better to you?
Thanks for the feedback. I plan on completely redoing the landing page and including a diagram + videos.
I like your marketing and the product overall. Good price too. It’s not for me because I have a template and I don’t know next js well enough, but interested to see how this goes for you! Good luck!
Thanks for letting me know what you think.
Just curious, what template are you using?
Also, nextjs is pretty straightforward honestly and works out of the box with this template. I highly recommend you give nextjs a shot even if you're not going to use the boilerplate!
Ok! I think I’ll try next js on my next project.
I kinda created my own template over the years. It’s Django, ReactJS, auth0, Postgres.
And then I use AWS for hosting