The perfect SaaS starter template for indiehackers
by JannisWith launchr.io I’m trying to build the perfect starter template for Indiehackers. My goal is to make it extremely easy to start a new project. Someone using the template should be able to focus on the idea right away instead of writing tons and tons of boilerplate code. Ideally, it should only take a couple of minutes from initial setup to a working website with all the core features for a fully functional SaaS.
Currently, my main focus is on a set of strong base features. First and foremost, user login and signup flow in conjunction with payment/subscription processing. I’m planning to fully support Paddle and probably Stripe at launch. As a user, setting up payment processing should be a matter of copying API tokens and adding plans to the project - that’s it.
In order to launch fast, the template also ships with a beautiful design. This includes examples, a functional pricing page, a user dashboard and templates for privacy policy and terms of service.
On top of that, I’m also planning on adding a little feature that allows to control user signups. Setting the site in beta mode locks everything down to a simple form which collects email addresses. These can be used to send out invites for a small group of people to test the service. Perfect for Indiehackers who want to launch on sites like BetaList prior to their official launch.
I’m currently expecting to be ready in a couple of weeks. Launchr is Open Source, if you want to follow me building it, take a look at: https://github.com/jayfk/launchr
If you want to take a look at a demo site, check out https://demo.launchr.io/
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This looks nice and I’m also glad it’s in Python, which is one of my go-to languages and there’s a lack of SaaS templates for it.
However I’d be curious to see it actually in use.
My main question: how tricky will it be to deploy? Would it support most VPS setups?
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Deployments will be super easy. Thanks to Docker, you can deploy the template on any VPS/cloud provider. All you really need to do is to install Docker + Docker Compose and point your DNS to your server.
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That’s awesome. Sounds super easy!
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there’s a lack of SaaS templates for it.
Hmm? ;-))) not already, mine SaaS templates are written in Python https://www.saasforge.dev/Would it support most VPS setups?
Can you specify what you mean?
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pretty cool!
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I think you’re doing yourself a disservice by giving this away for free. SaaS templates are a lucrative market.
Also, from my experience - people place a lot more trust in products in this niche that have a higher price tag. Free stuff is good, but not necessarily when it’s the foundation of your entire tech business.
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That's true. My current plan is to make the code Open Source and to sell deployment addons on top of that.
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I actually think the existing business models of your competitors are not good. They make me pay a big upfront fee to use their code. Instead you seem to think out of the box, instead of protecting the source code you give away. Bold, I wish you success !
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That's a good point. Reinventing the wheel isn't necisarrily a bad thing, though. It shows that there's a market. There's RailsKits, Bullet Train, Laravel Spark and even a fellow IndieHacker is working on a template with https://www.indiehackers.com/product/gravity (hey @kylegawley!).
Launchr is based on Django and as far as my research shows, there's currently nothing available for Python in general. Python is trendy again (thanks ML) and there seems to be a market for this. This was enough initial validation for me to start working on this.
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