My review of shipfast ⚡ Why you need to pay attention. Good things 👍 + Landing page sections are clean and easy to use. + Great docs for setting up everything (google auth, database, stripe, email, etc). + NextJS allows Static Site Generation at build so my blog is blazing fast. Great for SEO. Not so good 👎 - Uses NextAuth. This is very rigid in how it needs user data to be structured. When using the DynamoDB Adapter, it forces me to structure users and sessions into a way I'm not used to. - No way of doing environments. You can use local development but I still like the idea of having the option for a deployed environment that isn't production. - No request body validation. Have to do this myself. - All documentation expects deployment to Vercel. We've all seen that post about the $97,000 Vercel bill 😬 Why you should care: Even with these limitations I've been able to build an MVP in 2 days. If you try to build this from scratch then you'll spend weeks just getting everything set up. By which time I'll be getting users, earning revenue and building the next set of features, always being one step ahead of you. It also means I could test multiple ideas in a month and see which one takes off best. What are your thoughts on these startup templates? #startup #saas #software
I know shipfast and seems like a great starting point. However, I'd like to see such a boilerplate that can be deployed on some stable infrastructure that can't and won't grow your bill exponentially. Eg: fixed server cost and fixed/no bandwidth cost.
bring back Techstars Startup Weekend :)
Clerk is a good thing to handle users, very easy to set up
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3moI plan to build a startup template but for AWS using with best practices (AWS Organization, AWS Identity Center, Multi account setup, a basic CI/CD with cross account support and security scanning by default, boilerplates for common use cases (Basic VPC and networking) and common patterns (S3+Lambda). I just need a little bit of extra time 🫠 Btw open to discuss if anyone is interested 🚀