✨ What's Included (All FREE!)

🛡️ Authentication & Authorization

• Better Auth - Modern authentication with email/password, social login, and magic links
• Role-based access control - User, Admin, and Super Admin roles with granular permissions
• Protected routes - Server-side route protection with middleware
• Session management - Secure session handling with proper encryption
• Password policies - Strong password requirements and validation
• Rate limiting - API rate limiting to prevent abuse
• Audit logs - Track all user actions and system events

💳 Payments & Subscriptions

• Stripe integration - Complete payment processing with webhooks
• Subscription management - Handle recurring payments and plan changes
• Credit system - Token-based credits for API usage
• Customer portal - Self-service subscription management
• Payment analytics - Revenue tracking and churn analysis
• Multi-currency support - Support for multiple currencies
• Tax calculation - Automatic tax calculation and compliance

👥 Organization & Teams

• Multi-tenant architecture - Complete organization management
• Team collaboration - Invite and manage team members
• Role management - Owner, Admin, and Member roles
• Organization settings - Customizable organization preferences
• Billing management - Organization-level billing and subscriptions
• Resource sharing - Share resources within organizations
• Audit trails - Organization-level activity tracking

📧 Email & Communications

• Resend integration - Modern email delivery service
• React Email templates - Beautiful, responsive email templates
• Transactional emails - Welcome, verification, password reset emails
• Email analytics - Track email delivery and engagement
• Template system - Reusable email components
• SMTP fallback - Legacy SMTP support for compatibility

🗄️ Database & ORM

• Drizzle ORM - Type-safe database queries with excellent performance
• Neon PostgreSQL - Serverless PostgreSQL with automatic scaling
• Auto-migrations - Database schema management and migrations
• Connection pooling - Optimized database connections
• Query optimization - Efficient data fetching and caching
• Database monitoring - Query performance and health metrics

🎨 UI & Design System

• shadcn/ui - Beautiful, accessible component library
• Tailwind CSS - Utility-first CSS framework with custom design system
• Dark mode support - Built-in theme switching
• Responsive design - Mobile-first approach with perfect responsive behavior
• Animation library - Smooth transitions and micro-interactions
• Icon system - Lucide React icons with consistent iconography
• Accessibility - WCAG 2.1 AA compliant components

📊 Analytics & Monitoring

• PostHog integration - Product analytics and user behavior tracking
• Performance monitoring - Core Web Vitals and performance metrics
• Sentry error tracking - Real-time error monitoring and alerts
• Custom dashboards - Business intelligence and KPIs
• Real-time metrics - Live data updates and notifications
• Export capabilities - Data export for external analysis

🔧 Developer Experience

• TypeScript - Full type safety with strict configuration
• Biome - Fast linting and formatting (replaces ESLint + Prettier)
• Vitest - Fast unit testing with React Testing Library
• Playwright - End-to-end testing with browser automation
• Hot reload - Instant feedback during development
• Type checking - Real-time TypeScript error checking
• Auto imports - Intelligent import suggestions
• Interactive CLI tools - Setup, reset, and repair commands

🚀 Deployment & DevOps

• Vercel deployment - Optimized for Vercel's platform
• GitHub Actions - Automated CI/CD pipelines
• Environment management - Secure environment variable handling
• Preview deployments - Automatic preview environments for PRs
• Edge functions - Vercel Edge Runtime for global performance
• Image optimization - Automatic image optimization and CDN

🔒 Security Features

• Rate limiting - API rate limiting with Upstash Redis
• CORS configuration - Proper cross-origin resource sharing
• CSRF protection - Cross-site request forgery protection
• XSS protection - Cross-site scripting prevention
• Content Security Policy - CSP headers for enhanced security
• HTTPS enforcement - SSL/TLS encryption
• Input validation - Comprehensive input sanitization with Zod
• Session security - Secure session management with encryption

🚀 Quick Start (It's FREE!)

Prerequisites

• Node.js 20+ and pnpm 9+
• Neon account for PostgreSQL database (free tier available)
• Stripe account for payments (free for development)
• GitHub account

1. Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/saasyachtclub/saas-boiler.git
cd saas-boiler

# Run our interactive setup wizard
./scripts/setup.sh

Or set up manually:

# Install dependencies
pnpm install

# Copy environment template
cp .env.example .env

2. Configure Environment

# Database (Neon PostgreSQL - Free Tier Available)
DATABASE_URL="postgresql://username:password@host:port/database"

# Better Auth (Generate your own secret)
BETTER_AUTH_SECRET="your-secret-key-min-32-chars"
BETTER_AUTH_URL="http://localhost:3000"

# Stripe (Free for development)
STRIPE_SECRET_KEY="sk_test_..."
STRIPE_WEBHOOK_SECRET="whsec_..."
STRIPE_PUBLISHABLE_KEY="pk_test_..."

# Email (Resend - Free tier available)
RESEND_API_KEY="re_..."

# Analytics (PostHog - Free tier available)
NEXT_PUBLIC_POSTHOG_KEY="phc_..."
NEXT_PUBLIC_POSTHOG_HOST="https://app.posthog.com"

# Error Tracking (Sentry - Free tier available)
SENTRY_DSN="https://..."

3. Database Setup

# Generate and apply database migrations
pnpm db:generate
pnpm db:migrate

# Optional: Open Drizzle Studio to explore your database
pnpm db:studio

4. Launch Your SaaS

pnpm dev

🎉 Congratulations! Your SaaS is now running at http://localhost:3000

📁 Project Structure

⚓ saas-boiler/
├── 📱 apps/
│   └── web/                 # Next.js 15 App (Your SaaS Frontend)
│       ├── src/app/         # App Router Pages
│       ├── src/components/  # Reusable Components
│       ├── src/lib/         # Utilities & Configurations
│       └── src/types/       # TypeScript Definitions
├── 📦 packages/             # Shared Packages (Future Extensions)
├── 🛠️ tooling/              # Development Tools & Configs
├── 📜 scripts/              # CLI Tools & Automation
├── 📚 docs/                 # Comprehensive Documentation
└── 🔧 Configuration Files   # All the boring setup stuff

🗄️ Database Schema (Included!)

Our battle-tested database schema includes:

• 👤 Users - Complete user management with profiles
• 🔐 Sessions - Secure authentication sessions
• 🔗 Accounts - OAuth provider integrations
• 💼 Organizations - Multi-tenant organization structure
• 👥 Memberships - Team and role management
• 💳 Subscriptions - Stripe subscription tracking
• 🔑 API Keys - API key management system
• 📊 Audit Logs - Complete activity tracking
• 💰 Credits - Token-based credit system

🔧 Available Commands

# 🚀 Development
pnpm dev              # Start development server
pnpm build            # Build for production
pnpm start            # Start production server

# 🗄️ Database
pnpm db:generate      # Generate migrations
pnpm db:migrate       # Apply migrations
pnpm db:studio        # Open Drizzle Studio
pnpm db:push          # Push schema changes
pnpm db:seed          # Seed with sample data

# 🧹 Code Quality
pnpm lint             # Run Biome linter
pnpm format           # Format code
pnpm check            # Check everything
pnpm fix              # Auto-fix issues

# 🧪 Testing
pnpm test             # Run unit tests
pnpm test:ui          # Run tests with UI
pnpm test:e2e         # Run E2E tests
pnpm test:coverage    # Generate coverage

# 🛠️ CLI Tools (Interactive!)
pnpm setup            # Interactive setup wizard
pnpm reset            # Reset project safely
pnpm repair           # Fix common issues
pnpm admin            # Admin commands

# 🚀 Deployment
pnpm deploy           # Deploy to production
pnpm preview          # Deploy preview

🚀 Deploy Your SaaS (For FREE!)

Vercel (Recommended - FREE Tier!)

1. Push your code to GitHub
2. Connect to Vercel (free account)
3. Add your environment variables
4. Deploy! 🚀

Other FREE Options