Why Are SaaS Boilerplates Still This Expensive? So I Built My Own

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I've been building indie SaaS products for a while now, and one thing kept bugging me:Why are SaaS boilerplates so damn expensive — and still so incomplete?$199 for boilerplates that don’t even include payments?Some don’t have auth wired in properly.Others are bloated with stuff I end up ripping out.So instead of buying another overpriced "starter kit," I built my own: https://www.saasrocket.proIt's called SaaSRocket. It’s not revolutionary — it's just actually complete:Supabase (auth + DB)Resend (transactional emails)Lemon Squeezy (Stripe alt payments)Cloudinary (blogs/media uploads)Dashboard layout with SEO + unit testsI priced it at $49, because boilerplates shouldn’t feel like buying a c

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