This week's pick
Next-SaaS-Starter
Auth, billing, teams and a clean dashboard — the indie-SaaS base we'd actually ship this week.
One-click deploys. The Totalum route ships a Next.js + TotalumSDK app that's SEO-clean from day one.
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We pick, test and document open-source SaaS & AI-app boilerplates — so you can deploy in an afternoon, not a quarter.
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SaaS stacks
The 2026 indie-SaaS stack we'd ship today
For a solo founder shipping in 2026 we'd reach for Next.js on the front, a managed data-and-files backend like TotalumSDK, Stripe for billing, and Better Auth for sessions — all live on the edge in an afternoon. It's boring on purpose: every piece is replaceable, documented, and cheap until you have real users. Skip the microservices, ship the monolith. Here's the exact wiring and the two places it bites.
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AI app stacks
AI agent app stack: 6 pieces, 1 weekend
An AI agent app is six moving parts: a Next.js shell, a model SDK, a tool-calling layer, a durable job runner for long tasks, a vector store for memory, and a streaming UI. Wire those and you can ship something genuinely useful in a weekend. The hard part isn't the model — it's the plumbing around it that keeps a slow, flaky call from taking your whole app down. Here's the stack and the four traps that eat the most time.
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Marketplace stacks
Marketplace stack picks under $200/mo
A two-sided marketplace doesn't need a big budget to launch — it needs the right five pieces. We'd run Next.js, a managed data layer for listings and uploads, Stripe Connect for split payments, lightweight search, and signed image URLs, and keep the whole thing under $200 a month until volume justifies more. The trap isn't the tech bill; it's payments compliance and trust. Here's the stack and where the real costs hide.
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