From Clone to Production in a Weekend

A walkthrough of building a complete SaaS application with auth, payments, AI chat, and background jobs, starting from a pre-wired foundation instead of an empty directory. I've started SaaS projects from scratch enough times to know how the first weekend usually goes. Friday evening, you're excited. Saturday morning, you're configuring OAuth. Saturday afternoon, you're debugging Stripe webhooks. Sunday, you're wiring up email templates and wondering where the weekend went. You haven't built any product yet. This walkthrough shows the alternative: starting from a foundation that already has the infrastructure working, then spending your weekend on the thing that actually matters. Your product. Friday Evening: From Clone to Running App The starting point is a working application with auth, payments, database, background jobs, and AI features pre-wired. Instead of scaffolding an empty project, you clone a complete system and start removing or adapting what you don't need. Check out Eden