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.
Documenso vs DocuSeal vs OpenSign: self-hosted e-signature in 2026
Three open-source DocuSign alternatives, read from their live repositories rather than their marketing. All three sign properly. What separates them is who holds the key, and a licence badge that is wrong in opposite directions on two of the three.
Aaron Brick · October 10, 2026SaaS stacksreact-day-picker vs react-datepicker vs MUI X Date Pickers in 2026
Three React date pickers measured against live registry, repository and tarball state on 7 October 2026. One is what shadcn installs for you, one is a single pre-bundled module your bundler cannot take apart, and one will not start until you have adopted a design system and picked one of eight date adapters. Plus three corrections to our own accessibility instrument, all of which had been wrong in the same direction.
Mara Lindqvist · October 7, 2026SaaS stackslucide-react vs Heroicons vs Tabler Icons: the Next.js import surface, measured (2026)
Three React icon libraries that differ less in their icons than in their import surface. Read from the npm registry, the published tarballs, the GitHub API and the Next.js source on 4 October 2026: one of them has a 525-byte root entry, one ships a 478 KB barrel, and the registry's size figures rank all three in the wrong order.
Yui Tanaka · October 4, 2026Built something worth shipping?
Submit your open-source boilerplate and we'll run it through the same bar as everything else in the garden.