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revokslab/ShipFree
Open Source Next.js Saas Boilerplate
ShipFree is a Next.js SaaS starter that bundles auth (Better-Auth), payments (Stripe/Polar/several others), email, i18n, and Drizzle ORM into a single template you can clone and ship from. It targets solo founders and small teams who want to skip the plumbing and get to product code faster. The forks-to-stars ratio (~1:3.5) suggests a lot of people are actually using it, not just starring it.
The payment provider breadth is genuinely useful — Stripe, Polar, Autumn, Dodo, and two more means you're not locked in and can target different markets. Better-Auth is a solid choice over NextAuth; it's more actively maintained and has a cleaner API. The i18n setup with next-intl is done correctly: locale routing, server and client component patterns, and a clear guide for adding languages. Docker configs for dev/staging/prod environments are included and split properly, which most boilerplates skip.
The README devotes more space to removing the in-template upsell (selling a '$90 premium version') than to actually getting started — that's a sign of misaligned priorities and it pollutes the codebase with payment logic for the author's side hustle. Six payment providers in a single boilerplate means none of them are well-tested across all edge cases; you're inheriting a lot of conditional integration code that will surprise you in webhooks. No test suite of any kind is visible in the tree — for a template that wires up auth, payments, and webhooks, that's a real gap. The `.claude`, `.cursor`, and `.opencode` skill directories are committed to the repo, which is just noise that ships into your own project.