Launchr

Launchr is a SaaS starter template

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Driven by the desire to build a starter tamplate that follows best practises and is easy to use.

January 27, 2021 Added Stripe integration

One of the most tedious tasks when setting up a new project is to implement the whole payment flow and subscription management. Especially for a SaaS backend which needs to know about the current subscription state of every single user.

Launchr, the Open Source SaaS starter template for Django, now has full Stripe integration. I've updated the code last week and just finished the first iteration on the documentation for it.

If Django is your go-to framework or if your are new to web development and want to create your first SaaS, make sure to check it out. It's also on GitHub.

January 20, 2021 Relaunching Launchr

In May last year I decided to put the Launchr project on hold, mostly due to time constrains. Now it's time to relaunch it!

Launchr is a starter template to build a fully functional SaaS with Django.

I've redesigned the landing page, began to write more documentation and completely updated the repository on GitHub.

Overall, I think this makes it easier to understand what value Launchr provides and also makes it easier to approach.

What do you guys think? Have you ever used a starter template before?

May 11, 2020 Putting the project on hold

I've decided to put Launchr on hold for the foreseeable future. Since I got engaged in lots of different other projects in the last couple of months, I've found myself in a position where I simply wasn't able to work on it anymore due to time constraints.

September 27, 2019 Landing page redesign, what do you think?

I redesigned the landing page for Launchr, an Open Source SaaS starter template: https://getlaunchr.com/

While I'm still heavily working on the code (and making good progress), I wanted to redesign the landing page which was basically just a coming soon page before.

My goals with the landing page are to get some initial interest for the project and to show what to expect from it without going into much detail.

What do you think? From looking at the landing page alone, do you know what this is?

September 20, 2019 The perfect SaaS starter template for indiehackers

With 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/

September 10, 2019 Website launched

Today I launched the initial starting page for https://launchr.io/

One of my top priorities was to get this off the ground as soon as possible. There's no content yet, but we'll get there.

It took me a couple of days to find a suitable name, create the logo and decide on the template I wanted to use but ultimately, I'm quite happy with what I have now.

August 22, 2016 Came up with the idea

The idea to create something like Launchr dates back to 2016.

I was heavily working on two SaaS products simultaneously and on the side, I was also working on Cookiecutter Django, which is the most popular starter template for Django based projects.

During that time, lots and lots of smaller ideas came to my mind I wanted to try out. But in order to launch something, I always had to go trough all that silly configuration and boilerplate coding just to even start working on the idea.

This is where I created Cookiecutter SaaS, open sourced it and released it to the public.

Since I had multiple other projects going on during that time I eventually decided to focus my time elsewhere and stopped working on it.

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Driven by the desire to build a starter tamplate that follows best practises and is easy to use.