I was also building a starter kit similar to Vercel's Platform Starter-kit (Nextacular)

[arjayosma]

Sharing Nextacular is an open-source starter kit that will help SaaS founders build full-stack multi-tenant SaaS platforms efficiently and help you focus on developing your core SaaS features. Built on top of popular and modern technologies such as Next JS, Tailwind, Prisma, and Stripe.

It has been in development since January this year and I've been gathering feedback on what are the basic SaaS features that founders should not sweat about to help them focus on building the core of their solutions. The feedback gathered resulted in Nextacular, which is a SaaS starter-kit built on top of modern technologies.

Also, in our startup, our team didn't have a standard way of building our applications, so I thought of spending some time crafting this Workspace-based multi-tenant SaaS starter kit to be deployed on Vercel. This is an open-source initiative to contribute to the development community.

(I do know that there exists Vercel's Platform Starter kit, and I was happy I was invited into the repository for edge-functions and platforms. I was already building Nextacular before they released the project and had to piece some of these things together with my knowledge about Next.JS and Vercel's APIs. Luckily, the repo invite made me improve the codebase of Nextacular. Besides, Nextacular was built on top of Next.JS, which will be deployed over at Vercel.)

I guess some of the distinguishing factors of Nextacular with Platforms are:

1. We will focus on developer experience and improve on the existing documentation
2. Create more integrations and a community with third-party services
3. Templates + Integrations marketplace, which will be very useful for
4. Workspace and teams features (out-of-the-box)
5. Payments feature (out-of-the-box)

So many plans up ahead, and I do hope the community will be able to move this project forward as well as an alternative to Platforms. 😅
Thank you!