I built a directory of 100 SaaS boilerplates, grouped by stack.
I know, I know. Does the world really need another directory of SaaS boilerplates?
Here's why I made this site.
In my opinion, the best directory of boilerplates is the awesome-saas-boilerplates github repo here: https://github.com/smirnov-am/awesome-saas-boilerplates. But, as just a flat list of names and URLs it is hard to do an evaluation of them. So I thought, wouldn't be nice if there was a little UI on top of them that could show what they look like, let you filter/sort etc.? And so I built a little scraper + AI tool to build that. The data in the site started off as 100% auto-generated from a script.
But then I thought, well, there is also an obvious difference in quality between these products. Some of them are mature products hardened by years of active development, and some are a graduate-student's weekend project they wrote and abandoned years ago. As the creator and maintainer of a boilerplate myself who basically works full-time on it, I get frustrated when low-quality products give the whole category a bad name. So I wanted a way to manually recognize some of the products in the space that meet a certain criteria - e.g. the project having a long history, many good reviews, good documentation, multiple successful products built on top of it, etc.
At the moment I have just used my "insider" knowledge of the category to recommend a few products that I know are good. But in the future I'm hoping to build out some objective evaluation criteria (e.g. "how many reviews?" "when was it launched?" "when was it last updated?") that can help people make a decision on choosing one of these.
Anyway, that's my pitch. Poke around, find a new starter, and give me feedback! Hoping to make this the best boilerplate directory on the internet.