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vercel/next-forge
Production-grade Turborepo template for Next.js apps.
A Turborepo monorepo starter for Next.js SaaS apps that ships with pre-wired integrations for auth, payments, email, observability, real-time collaboration, and more. It's for developers who want to skip the setup phase and get to product work quickly. The target audience is solo founders or small teams building a B2B SaaS on Vercel's stack.
The monorepo boundaries are well-drawn — each concern (auth, payments, email) is its own package rather than scattered across apps, which makes swapping providers plausible without a rewrite. Observability is first-class from day one: Sentry, BetterStack, and uptime monitoring are wired in, not bolted on later. The Storybook app covers the full shadcn component surface, so you actually know what you have before you need it. The included security layer (Arcjet for rate limiting and bot detection) is the kind of thing most starters completely skip.
You are adopting 10+ SaaS vendors simultaneously — Clerk, Neon, Liveblocks, Arcjet, BetterStack, Posthog, Mintlify, Stripe, Resend, Sentry. The 'free to start' claim is true; the migration cost if any of these raise prices or get acquired is high and underplayed. The 'API' app is just Next.js route handlers — there's no actual separate backend, which will hit you when you need long-running jobs or WebSocket support. The whole thing is implicitly Vercel-first: getting it running on Railway, Fly, or AWS means undoing defaults that were designed with Vercel's infrastructure in mind. And the sheer volume of environment variables and service account setup required means your first hour is spent creating accounts, not writing code.