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I'm planning to build my own SaaS application and I totally understand what you are feeling. I won't say billing, auth etc are non-product things but I do feel

by keviv 10y ago

I'm planning to build my own SaaS application and I totally understand what you are feeling. I won't say billing, auth etc are non-product things but I do feel that all the SaaS companies pretty much reinvent the wheel every time they write billing and auth code. I'm a PHP developer and I work mostly on Laravel. Laravel's creator definitely felt the same and he created Laravel Spark. Spark is basically a boilerplate for SaaS apps. It includes boilerplate for Authentication, teams, billing, subscription etc. It costs $99 which isn't a lot for all the things it offers. I'm not sure if any other framework offers such stuff. Link: https://spark.laravel.com/ https://spark.laravel.com/ P.S I'm not related to Laravel or Spark in any way.

brilliantcode 10y ago
+1 Wish I knew about spark before I set out to implement my own SaaS application, it looks excellent. The pricing is on-point as well. I wonder if the licensing lets me deploy it for my customers. However, I think http://saasful.com http://saasful.com goes beyond reinventing the wheel. Basically you get a human to handle your requests like css & content changes, anything related to your website . On top of not having to code, you get a completely managed-by-humans support on an ongoing basis and I think we are focusing more on being the "on-call go-to-guy" for all of your website related requests. I'm not advocating against spark (it's awesome) but I feel like there's more itch to scratch by moving beyond just the "build-vs-buy" into "maintain-vs-outsourced-at-deep-discounts" if that makes sense.