ShipFast

ShipFast is a NextJS boilerplate and startup accelerator that provides pre-built components, integrations, and infrastructure for rapidly launching SaaS applications and web startups. Building a minimum viable product traditionally requires weeks or months of development time setting up authentication systems, payment processing, database configurations, email services, landing pages, and countless other foundational elements before even starting on your unique product features. This extended pre-launch phase consumes runway, delays market validation, and prevents founders from quickly testing whether their business concept resonates with real users. ShipFast addresses this startup challenge by providing a comprehensive, production-ready codebase with all the common infrastructure already implemented, tested, and integrated. Instead of spending weeks on boilerplate, founders can launch revenue-generating products in days or even hours, immediately focusing on unique value propositions and customer acquisition. The platform includes everything needed to run a modern SaaS business: user authentication, subscription billing, admin dashboards, email marketing integration, analytics, SEO optimization, responsive design, and deployment configurations. This comprehensive foundation doesn't just save development time-it implements best practices and battle-tested patterns that prevent common pitfalls, security vulnerabilities, and technical debt that plague hastily built MVPs.

How It Works

Starting with ShipFast begins with purchasing access and cloning the boilerplate repository to your development environment. The codebase is built on NextJS with modern React patterns, fully documented and organized for easy customization. You configure essential services by adding API keys for Stripe payment processing, database connections, email service credentials, and analytics platforms. Next, you customize the application to your specific product by modifying landing page content, adjusting pricing tiers, adding your branding and color schemes, and configuring your specific feature set. The pre-built components provide templates for common SaaS pages including pricing tables, feature sections, testimonials, FAQs, user dashboards, and settings panels-all responsive and accessible. When you're ready to develop unique features, you build upon the existing authentication and data layers that handle user management, permissions, and database operations. ShipFast's code is designed for modification rather than rigid constraints, with clear separation of concerns allowing you to add custom functionality without untangling complex dependencies.

Core Features

Complete Authentication System provides secure user registration, login, password reset, email verification, session management, and social login integrations with Google, GitHub, and other providers.

Stripe Payment Integration includes fully functional subscription billing, one-time payment processing, customer portal access, webhook handling for subscription events, and payment method management.

Pre-Built UI Components offer ready-to-use React components for landing pages, pricing tables, feature sections, testimonials, dashboards, settings pages, and admin panels, all styled with Tailwind CSS.

Database Schema and ORM Setup provides configured database connections, user models, subscription tracking, and common data relationships using modern ORMs like Prisma.

Email Service Integration connects to services like Mailgun or SendGrid with pre-built templates for transactional emails including welcome messages, password resets, and subscription notifications.

SEO and Marketing Optimization includes meta tag configurations, sitemap generation, structured data markup, OpenGraph tags for social sharing, and integration preparation for analytics.

Documentation and Community provides comprehensive setup guides, customization tutorials, deployment instructions, and access to a community of other founders using ShipFast.

Who This Is For

ShipFast serves solo founders and indie hackers who want to validate business ideas quickly without spending months on technical infrastructure before generating first revenue. Non-technical entrepreneurs with limited development resources use ShipFast to maximize the productivity of their developer time, focusing budgets on unique features rather than commodity infrastructure. Small startup teams racing to market leverage the boilerplate to compress time-to-launch and begin customer acquisition and feedback cycles sooner.