This code is worth $30,000+

Okay, the title of this post is a bit clickbaity, but in fact the code I wrote just crossed $30.000 of revenue.

The product I am talking about is my SaaS starter kit supastarter (https://supastarter.dev). It essentially is a codebase that comes with all the common SaaS functionalities like auth, i18n, payments and so on already implemented.

I started to over a year ago in August of 2022 to build the initial Next.js starter kit for myself, so that I would not have to repeat myself over and over again when starting new SaaS apps for my clients. I never really had the intention to (in the beginning) to make real money from this, but I created a small landing page and put a price tag of $49 on i, which would get you access to the repository and a Discord server for support. I said to myself "If this thing makes me $1k, it's a huge success for me", not believing that could actually happen.

In the first 3 month I made a total of $2k, which made me incredibly happy and motivated me to invest more into it. I did more marketing, build more features into it and tried growing my followers on Twitter to get more reach. Also I increased the price to $249 and after 6 months I was already at $15k revenue.

Then Vercel released Next 13 with the app router and my sales went down drastically, because my starter kit was built with the pages router and it seemed outdated. So I sad down for multiple months and completely rewrote my starter kit with the intention of making it more scalable, extensible and more appealing for a larger audience. After another 6 months in September of 2023 I released the new version and it made nearly $10k since then.

At the same time, I teamed up with the amazing Fabian Beer you is an expert in Nuxt to expand the starter kit from the React ecosystem to the Vue.js ecosystem. Last week we finally launched the new version for Nuxt 3 and the outcome is incredible. Over $7k+ revenue within the first week!

The response and feedback we got so far is really positive and helpful and we are trying to make the product better every day.

I would love to hear your feedback on what you think about our product and what you would like to see as the next feature.

I am incredibly thankful for all the support by the community and am proud to call myself an indie hacker!