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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.

Cal.com

Open-source scheduling infrastructure — the Calendly alternative you can self-host.

  • Next.js
  • Prisma
  • Postgres
  • tRPC
GitHub Vercel

Documenso

The open-source DocuSign alternative for sending and signing documents.

  • Next.js
  • Prisma
  • Postgres
  • Stripe
GitHub Vercel

Inbox Zero

AI personal assistant for email — bulk unsubscribe, auto-reply and smart cleanup.

  • Next.js
  • Postgres
  • OpenAI
  • Redis
GitHub Vercel

Plane

Open-source project management — issues, sprints and roadmaps. A Jira alternative.

  • Next.js
  • Django
  • Postgres
GitHub Vercel

Twenty CRM

A modern, open-source CRM built to be the customer-data backbone of your business.

  • Next.js
  • NestJS
  • Postgres
  • GraphQL
GitHub Vercel

Papermark

Open-source document sharing with built-in analytics — the DocSend alternative.

  • Next.js
  • Prisma
  • Postgres
  • Stripe
GitHub Vercel

Dub

Open-source link management for modern marketing teams — short links with analytics.

  • Next.js
  • Prisma
  • PlanetScale
  • Tinybird
GitHub Vercel

Helper

AI-powered customer support that drafts and resolves tickets from your own docs.

  • Next.js
  • Postgres
  • OpenAI
GitHub Vercel

Next.js SaaS Starter

Production SaaS starter with auth, Stripe subscriptions, dashboard and team management.

  • Next.js
  • Drizzle
  • Postgres
  • Stripe
GitHub Vercel

T3 Stack Starter

The typesafe full-stack starter — Next.js, tRPC, Prisma and NextAuth wired together.

  • Next.js
  • tRPC
  • Prisma
  • NextAuth
GitHub Vercel

Vercel AI Chatbot

A full-featured, hackable AI chat app — streaming, tools and persistent history.

  • Next.js
  • AI SDK
  • Postgres
GitHub Vercel

RAG Chat Starter

Retrieval-augmented chat over your own documents, ready to extend with any model.

  • Next.js
  • LangChain
  • OpenAI
  • pgvector
GitHub Vercel

FastAPI SaaS Template

Full-stack template with a FastAPI backend, JWT auth and a React dashboard.

  • FastAPI
  • Python
  • Postgres
  • React
GitHub Vercel

LangGraph Agent Starter

A stateful, multi-step Python agent scaffold — tools, memory and human-in-the-loop.

  • Python
  • LangGraph
  • LangChain
GitHub Vercel

Medusa Commerce

Open-source commerce engine with a Next.js storefront — the Shopify alternative.

  • Next.js
  • Medusa
  • Postgres
GitHub Vercel

Marketplace Starter

Two-sided marketplace scaffold with listings, Stripe Connect payouts and reviews.

  • Next.js
  • Prisma
  • Postgres
  • Stripe Connect
GitHub Vercel

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, not abandoned three frameworks ago.
  • Runs in one command — clone, install, and it boots locally without a yak-shave.
  • Deploy-ready — 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.

SaaS stacks

Better Auth vs Auth.js vs Supabase Auth: open-source authentication for a Next.js SaaS (2026)

A curator's take on the three open-source auth picks for a Next.js SaaS in 2026 (Better Auth, Auth.js, Supabase Auth), and the one axis that decides which shelf you pull from.

Mara Lindqvist · August 1, 2026SaaS stacks

React-Admin review (2026): the open-source admin panel for a Next.js SaaS

React-Admin is the most popular open-source React admin framework, but is it the right admin panel for a Next.js SaaS in 2026? A ShipGarden curator's hands-on take on the free MIT core, the Enterprise Edition paywall, and where Refine or AdminJS fit better.

Yui Tanaka · July 31, 2026SaaS stacks

Neon vs Supabase vs Xata vs Nile: serverless Postgres for a Next.js SaaS in 2026

Serverless Postgres is four different bets in 2026, not one. A ShipGarden curator's source-checked guide to Neon, Supabase, Xata, and Nile for a Next.js SaaS: branching, real pricing, multi-tenancy, and where each one loses.

Mara Lindqvist · July 29, 2026

Built something worth shipping?

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