
Building a Next.js SaaS boilerplate so indie developers can skip the plumbing and ship faster
Every time I started a new SaaS project, I spent the first few weeks doing the same thing: setting up auth, wiring up Stripe, configuring email, deploying to a server, writing middleware, protecting routes. None of it was the actual product. All of it was infrastructure that every SaaS project needs. After doing this four or five times, I decided to build a proper boilerplate — not just a starter template, but production-grade code I'd actually use myself. That became DiggaByte . What's included The templates come with: Authentication — NextAuth.js with email/password, Google OAuth, GitHub OAuth. Sessions, JWT, protected routes, middleware — all done. Stripe payments — Subscription billing, one-time payments, webhooks pre-configured, customer portal wired up. The hardest part of a SaaS is already working. Email — Transactional email with resend/nodemailer, pre-built templates for welcome, password reset, invoice, etc. Database — Prisma ORM with schema, migrations, and seed scripts read
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