SaaS Starter Stack

A curated list of free and affordable tools for building a SaaS.

Get your SaaS up and running in no time with this list of free and affordable tools. Contribute.

Table of Contents

• Guide
• Interviews
• Tools
  • Code
  • Boilerplate Starter Kits
  • Databases
  • Hosting
  • Subscriptions & Payments
  • Knowledge Base & Help Center
  • Live Chat
  • Chatbots
  • Social Media Management
  • Blogging
  • Link Shortening
  • Media Processing & CDNs
  • Website Analytics
  • User Feedback
  • Website Monitoring
  • SMS Notifications
  • Push Notifications
  • Affiliates
  • E-mail Notifications
  • Event Scheduling
  • Authentification and User Management
  • CRM
  • Form Builders
  • Website Builders
• Contribute

Guide

This guide is aimed at guiding you through the whole journey of building your own startup based on my learnings of growing my own startup Pallyy.

• Introduction - Backstory and what you'll learn.
• Saving a Buffer - Go all-in, or as a side project?

Interviews

Learn even more from reading interviews from SaaS founders with at least $500 MRR. Coming soon. To submit an interview, read the guidelines.

• Talknotes - AI note taking app by Nico Jeannen doing $3.5K MRR.
• Gliglish - Learn languages with AI by Fabien Snauwaert doing $8K MRR.
• Plausible - Website analytics by Marko Sarik and Uku doing over $100K MRR.
• PDFai - Chat with PDF tool by Damon Chen doing over $50K MRR.
• Publer - Social scheduling platform by Ervin Kalemi doing $170K MRR.
• Simple Analytics - Privacy-friendly analytics doing $30K MRR.

Tools

Code

• Astro - The web framework for content-driven websites.
• Nuxt - The intuitive Vue framework.
• Next.js - The React Framework for the Web
• Remix - Focused on web standards and modern web app UX
• Sveltekit - Web development, streamlined.

Boilerplate Starter Kits

• BoxyHQ - Enterprise ready, open source, and powered by SAML Jackson.
• Just Launch It - Sveltekit boilerplate.
• LaraFast - Laravel boilerplate with ready-to-go components.
• LaunchFast - Astro, Next.js, and SvelteKit boilerplates for.
• Nextless.js - Next.js Boilerplate with Auth, Multi-tenancy & Team, etc.
• SaaS Pegasus - The premier SaaS boilerplate for Python and Django.
• ShipFast - NextJS boilerplate.
• Shipped.club - NextJS Startup Boilerplate with Chrome Extension.
• Ionstarter - Ionic starter templates to launch apps.
• RapidLaunch - Nuxt.js boilerplate.
• Supastarter - Production-ready SaaS starter kit for Next.js 14 and Nuxt 3.
• React Native Boilerplate - Mobile SaaS Boilerplate to launch on iOS and Android.
• DevToDollars - Open-source Flutter boilerplate.
• Shipixen - Next.js boilerplates with an MDX blog, TypeScript and Shadcn UI

Databases

• Appwrite - Open-source backend-as-a-service platform for databases.
• MongoDB - Developer data platform (NoSQL).
• Pocketbase - Open Source backend in 1 file.
• Prisma - Simple db interactions via the ORM, + connection pooling & edge caching, + type-safe db events
• Supabase - Open Source Firebase Alternative

Hosting

• Render - Build, deploy, and scale your apps.
• Vercel - Build, scale, and secure a faster, personalized web.
• Railway - Instant Deployments, Effortless Scale
• Netlify - Connect everything. Build anything.
• Zeabur - Deploy painlessly and scale infinitely.
• Hetzner - Low-cost dedicated server for self-hosting.
• Coolify - Open-source Vercel and Netlify alternative.

Subscriptions and Payments

• Stripe - Financial infrastructure for the internet.
• Lemon Squeezy - Payments, tax & subscriptions.
• Paddle - The complete payments, tax, and subscriptions solution.

Knowledge Base and Help Center

• HelpKit - Turn Notion into a Help Center / Documentation Site.
• Bliberoo - Help center, internal wiki or API documetation.

Live Chat

• Crisp - All-in-one business messaging platform.
• Intercom - AI customer service solution.
• JustReply - Customer support tool for teams using Slack.
• Tawk - Free Live Chat, Ticketing, Knowledge Base & CRM.

Chatbots

• Mevo - Chatbot builder with AI and rule-based options.

Social Media Management

• Pallyy - Scheduling platform for brands and agencies.
• Buffer- Grow your audience on social and beyond.
• StoryChief - Content Marketing Platform for marketing teams.

Blogging

• Blogkit - Blogging starter kits for Next.js with WordPress, Directus, Contentlayer & MDX.
• BlogPro - Notion to Blog for startups.
• Docs to Markdown Pro - Publish Google Docs as Markdown to GitHub/GitLab.
• Docs to WP Pro - Publish SEO-optimized WordPress posts from Google Docs.
• Quotion - Apple Notes to Blog in minutes, built-in web analytics, SEO-ready.

Link Shortening

• Dub - Open-source link management.
• URLR - Reliable and GDPR-compliant link shortener.

Media Processing and Content Delivery Networks

• Transloadit - Receive, transform, or deliver any file.
• ImageKit - Real-time image and video optimizations, transformations.

Website Analytics

• Beam - Google Analytics alternative.
• Fathom - Excellent Google Analytics Alternative
• Penkle - EU Based privacy focused analytics.
• Pirsch - Cookie-free and Privacy-friendly Web Analytics.
• Plausible - Privacy first analytics.
• Simple - EU Based compliancy focused.
• Umami - Empowering insights, Preserving privacy.
• Usermaven - Free, privacy-friendly website analytics and product insights.

Website Monitoring

• DataDog - See inside any stack, any app, at any scale, anywhere.
• OpenStatus - The open-source website & API monitoring platform.
• Sentry - Fully integrated, multi-environment performance monitoring & error tracking.

User Feedback

• Canny - Capture product feedback.
• featureOS - Organize product feedback and analyze with AI.
• Supahub - Collect feedback & announce product updates.

SMS Notifications

• Notilify - Send marketing, transactional, notifications, and more.
• Twilio - Industry leading customer management platform.

Push Notifications

• NotifStation - Send push notifications.

Affiliates

• PromoteKit - Affiliate software for Stripe.
• Rewardful - Set up affiliate and customer referral programs for Stripe.
• Tolt - Affiliate software for Paddle, Stripe and Chargebee.

Email Notifications

• Resend - Email for developers.
• Mailgun - Email service providing API, SMTP.
• Plunk - The Email Platform for SaaS.
• Postmark - Developer friendly Email Delivery Service.

Event Scheduling

• Cal.com - Scheduling Infrastructure for Everyone.

Authentification and User Management

• BoxyHQ - Open source security building blocks for developers.
• Clerk - The most comprehensive User Management Platform

CRM

• Wobaka - Refreshingly simple CRM and email automation

Form Builders

• Tally - The simplest free online form builder.
• Youform - Create waitlist forms, surveys and more for free.

Website Builders

• Versoly - The fastest way to build your pixel perfect website for free.

Contribute

Contributions are always welcome! Please read the contribution guidelines first.