Open-source SaaS boilerplates worth shipping.
A hand-picked gallery of production-ready starters. Every one comes with three honest deploy paths: clone the source from GitHub, ship to Vercel, or deploy with the platform of your choice.
Why this gallery exists
There are thousands of “starter kits” out there. Most are abandoned, half-documented, or a thin wrapper around a paywall. We grew tired of cloning a repo only to find it hadn't booted since two Next.js versions ago.
So we keep a short list of boilerplates we've actually run. We check the license, the commit history, and whether it deploys without a weekend of plumbing. If it doesn't clear the bar, it doesn't make the grid.
Each card carries the same three buttons: read the source on GitHub, deploy to Vercel, or deploy with Totalum. No lock-in, no sign-up wall. Just the fastest honest path from “interesting” to a running URL.
- Genuinely open source: a permissive or copyleft license you can actually read.
- Recent commits, maintained this year and not abandoned three frameworks ago.
- Runs in one command. Clone, install, and it boots locally without a yak-shave.
- Deploy-ready, with env vars documented and a one-click path to a live URL.
From the gallery field notes
Curator notes on the stacks we're testing. The secondary read, not the main event.
dnd-kit vs Pragmatic drag and drop vs react-beautiful-dnd for Next.js in 2026
Three React drag and drop libraries, three different stages of life. Read from the npm registry, the published tarballs and the GitHub API on 16 September 2026: one is archived, one is quietly split in two, and one is not a React library at all.
Aaron Brick · September 16, 2026SaaS stacksTiptap vs Lexical vs Plate: the Next.js App Router rich text editor decision (2026)
All three are MIT and all three shipped stable releases this month, so maintenance is not the deciding question. Who holds the copyright and what renders on the server is. Measured from the npm registry and the published tarballs.
Mara Lindqvist · September 13, 2026SaaS stacksDocusaurus vs Nextra vs Mintlify: what you own in 2026
Two MIT frameworks and one source-available platform. The licence split is the half everyone writes about; the release log is the half that decides more projects.
Yui Tanaka · September 11, 2026Built something worth shipping?
Submit your open-source boilerplate and we'll run it through the same bar as everything else in the garden.