stuniel / saas-starter-stack

Free and Affordable Tools for Building a SaaS

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

• 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

Tools

Code

• 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 to rapidly build and launch your unicorn Saas.
• LaraFast - Laravel boilerplate with ready-to-go components for Payments, Admin, Blog, SEO and more.
• LaunchFast - Astro, Next.js, and SvelteKit boilerplates for launching web apps in hours.
• Nextless.js - Next.js Boilerplate with Auth, Multi-tenancy & Team, Payment, Admin, Landing Page, etc.
• ShipFast - NextJS boilerplate with all you need to build your SaaS.
• Shipped.club - NextJS Startup Boilerplate (+ Chrome Extension) to build your SaaS.
• Ionstarter - Ionic starter templates to launch apps in record time.
• RapidLaunch - Nuxt.js boilerplate designed for creating and deploying SaaS products and web apps in minutes.
• Supastarter - Production-ready and scalable SaaS starter kit for Next.js 14 and Nuxt 3.
• React Native Boilerplate - Mobile SaaS Boilerplate to launch your SaaS on iOS and Android.
• DevToDollars - Open-source Flutter production boilerplate.

Databases

• Appwrite - Open-source backend-as-a-service platform for databases.
• MongoDB - Developer data platform (NoSQL).
• Pocketbase - Open Source backend in 1 file.
• 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.

Subscriptions and Payments

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

Knowledge Base and Help Center

• HelpKit - Turn Notion into a professional 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 - No-code 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.

Blogging

• 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.

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

• Plausible - Privacy first analytics.
• Fathom Analytics - Excellent Google Analytics Alternative
• Simple Analytics - EU Based compliancy focused.
• Umami - Empowering insights, Preserving privacy.
• Beam Analytics - Google Analytics alternative with the most generous free tier
• Usermaven - Free, privacy-friendly website analytics and product insights for SaaS.

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 other types of SMS.
• Twilio - Industry leading customer management platform.

Push Notifications

• NotifStation - Send push notifications.

Affiliates

• PromoteKit - Affiliate software for Stripe.
• Rewardful - Easily set up affiliate and customer referral programs for Stripe.
• Tolt - Affiliate software that works with Paddle, Stripe and Chargebee.

Email Notifications

• Resend - Email for developers.
• Mailgun - Email service providing API, SMTP for transactional emails & marketing campaigns.
• Plunk - The Email Platform for SaaS.

Event Scheduling

• Cal.com - Scheduling Infrastructure for Everyone.

Authentification and User Management

• BoxyHQ - Open source security building blocks for developers. Democratizing enterprise readiness.
• 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 - A free Typeform alternative. Create waitlist forms, surveys, and more.

Contribute

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