Serverless SaaS

It was MAY 18, 2020 when I posted my first update for Serverless SaaS here on Indiehackers.com. I had just launched a simple landing page with a signup form to subscribe for when it would launch.

Today, I'm posting my final update for the project. And that is because Serverless SaaS just got acquired!

You can read the full story on my blog:

https://www.jakeprins.com/blog/zero-to-acquired

It's been over 8 months since V1 of the Serverless SaaS launched. Since then, a lot of improvements and new features have been added and with all those changes it's now time to launch V2.

Serverless SaaS is a boilerplate for Next.js & Firebase that enables developers to build a SaaS product way faster. It contains everything from authentication and billing to a landing page and integrated CMS. It could save months of development time and allows you to focus on building your unique product.

Over time, the starter kit has been improved and in this 2.0 version you'll get:

• Access to the new SaaS resources dashboard
• A custom admin dashboard for you to extend and to get a quick - overview of your app's data and activities.
• Multiple section versions to build your landing page quickly
• The latest versions of Next.js, Firebase, Tailwind, etc.
• More types with TypeScript
• A bunch of code improvements
• A nice discount during the V2 launch

If you bought the starter kit earlier, you already have access to these updates.

Around 9 months ago I started to sell a SaaS boilerplate on Gumroad and it's now been sold 105 times. Besides that, it has 15 sales on AppSumo and I recently launched a yearly subscription plan that now has 40 subscribers.

Besides the boilerplate itself, you now also get access to a private dashboard that has a ton of great resources for SaaS founders. With all the improvements and new additions to the package, it's almost time to launch a 2.0 version and see if it can get some more traction.

I wrote a more detailed post about how I went from $2k profit in a whole year to $2 profit in just a week. You are interested in my learnings you can read it here: https://www.indiehackers.com/post/how-i-went-from-2k-in-a-year-to-2k-in-a-week-f7eeaa115e

To celebrate, you can use this link to get 50% off on the lifetime license: https://jakeprins-nl.gumroad.com/l/serverless-saas/100-gumroad-sales

I was right in time for changing the pricing model and adding the "resources" dashboard for Serverless SaaS to be featured on ProductHunt. If you have some time to check it out, I would appreciate it!

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/serverless-saas-bfad110b-c8e9-405e-a091-b277f6266282

Serverless SaaS is going to change into a membership.
That means that for new customers, the Serverless SaaS boilerplate can only be bought as a yearly recurring subscription. As long as you are subscribed, you will have access to new updates, the resources dashboard, and are you allowed to use the starter kit for commercial projects. I'm also looking into ways (like creating a private discord) to make this more like a community for people who are building SaaS products.

Customers who bought Serverless SaaS will gain access to the new "resources" dashboard. This place will hold all the links to resources related to the boilerplate (like the links to the repo and documentation), but also a list of additional helpful resources for SaaS founders. This growing list contains links to helpful articles, recommended books/podcasts, places to post your startup, a list of potential investors, and more.

Time to share some updates to the https://serverless.page.

Admin Dashboard
When your app is in production and people start to use it, it's nice an admin panel where you can view and edit data of your project. The Firebase console is a great start, but if you want a custom overview of the most important data in your SaaS app you might want to build an admin dashboard for yourself.

This boilerplate now comes with an admin dashboard that you can use to build upon. It comes with a sidebar layout with an overview page, a link to your stripe dashboard, and a page with a list of all the users in your database. This admin panel can be extended with any data that you would like to add.

If you already use the boilerplate and want this new feature in your current project, go to the Github repository and copy/paste the following directories into your project:

• /pages/admin
• /components/admin

Next, go to the Admin section in the documentation and follow the remaining steps.

Delete account
Users can now delete their account from the /account/edit page. It will first prompt the user with a confirmation modal and if accepted the user will be removed from Firebase authentication. A Cloud Function called onUserDelete is added that subscribes to that delete event and it will clean up the user data in the Firestore DB. If you have added more user-related data to your project, make sure you extend this function so it will remove those also.

That's it for now.

Two months ago, Serverless SaaS opened early access and since then it has made 20 sales! The great thing about it is that I had received a lot of positive feedback. Since then, the documentation has been improved and lots of new features and bug fixes have been added.