SaaS Recipes
Explore a curated collection of modern SaaS templates, starter kits, and boilerplates. Each template includes comprehensive documentation, tech stack breakdowns, and deployment notes so you can move from idea to launch fast. Dial-in the results by targeting frameworks, data layers, or workspace structures—then bookmark the projects that match your roadmap.
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SaaS Recipes
This is acurated collection of modern SaaS templates, starter kits, and boilerplates—all indexed in one place at trev.fyi/saas.
The project serves as a comprehensive resource to help discover similar repositories, understand proven design patterns, and track best practices for building and managing SaaS applications—whether you're working solo or with a community.
Purpose: Finding Similar Repositories & Design Patterns
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The primary goal of SaaS Recipes is to help developers solve problems by finding similar repositories that have already tackled the challenges you're facing. Instead of reinventing the wheel, you can:
- Discover proven solutions to common SaaS problems (authentication, payments, subscriptions, analytics)
- Compare implementation approaches across different tech stacks and frameworks
- Learn from production-ready codebases that have been battle-tested in real applications
- Identify design patterns that work well for specific use cases (monorepos, serverless, edge functions, etc.)
Each entry includes detailed documentation about how projects structure their code, handle data fetching, manage state, and deploy to production. This makes it easy to find repositories that match your specific problem domain and see how others have solved similar challenges.
Tracking Best Practices for Solo & Community SaaS Development
SaaS Recipes tracks how successful projects approach development workflows, whether built by solo developers or teams:
Solo Developer Patterns
- Vibe-coding workflows — How to structure projects for rapid iteration and experimentation
- Minimal viable setups — Starter kits optimized for one-person teams
- Self-hosting strategies — Deployment patterns that work without DevOps overhead
- Tooling choices — Tech stacks that maximize productivity for solo developers
- Time-to-market optimizations — Templates that get you from idea to launch fastest
Community & Team Patterns
- Monorepo architectures — How teams structure multi-package workspaces
- Collaboration workflows — Git strategies, code review patterns, and contribution guidelines
- Scalability considerations — Patterns that support growth from solo to team
- Open-source maintenance — How community-driven projects stay sustainable
- Documentation standards — What makes projects easy for others to understand and contribute
Key Features
Comprehensive Filtering
Filter by frameworks, data layers, or workspace layouts to see how teams wire TanStack Query keys, structure RSC-friendly Drizzle schemas, or lay out Turborepo pipelines for caching and CI. This helps you find exactly the architectural patterns you need.
Detailed Documentation
Every entry includes:
- Tech stack breakdowns — Complete list of technologies and their versions
- Deployment notes — How projects are hosted and scaled
- Code structure insights — How files and folders are organized
- Development workflow — How teams or solo developers work with the codebase
Bookmarking System
Build a short list that matches your roadmap—whether you want edge-ready Next.js builds, Drizzle- or Prisma-backed data layers, or monorepos you can extend later. The tracker keeps links current so you can return, diff updates, and ship faster with a proven baseline.
Pattern Comparison
Compare how different projects solve the same problems:
- Authentication strategies (Better Auth, Clerk, NextAuth)
- Database patterns (Drizzle, Prisma, raw SQL)
- State management (Zustand, React Query, Server Components)
- Deployment approaches (Vercel, AWS, self-hosted)
Use Cases
- Starting a new SaaS project — Find the perfect starter template for your tech stack
- Solving specific problems — Discover how others have implemented features you need
- Learning best practices — Study production-ready codebases to improve your skills
- Evaluating tools — Compare how different technologies are used in real projects
- Building your own template — Learn from the best to create your own starter kit
Philosophy
The goal is to move from idea to launch faster by learning from proven patterns rather than stitching solutions together yourself. Every entry is carefully curated to represent real-world, production-ready approaches that you can trust and build upon.
SaaS Recipes is continuously updated with new projects and patterns. Bookmark your favorites and return to see how the ecosystem evolves.