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Building an Edge-First SaaS Boilerplate with Next.js and Cloudflare
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Building an Edge-First SaaS Boilerplate with Next.js and Cloudflare

DEV Community: nextjs·seller-mind·about 17 hours ago
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I still remember the exact moment I realized I was spending 80% of my time building the same boilerplate over and over. It was a Tuesday night, and I was on my third cup of coffee, trying to debug a Stripe webhook that kept failing in production. I had already spent the whole weekend setting up NextAuth, configuring the database schema, and writing the same API routes I’d written a dozen times before. I wasn't building my actual SaaS idea; I was just building the plumbing. I was exhausted, frustrated, and ready to quit. So I decided to build something to fix this exact problem.

The "SaaS boilerplate" problem is a massive time sink for indie developers. Every time you start a new project, you have to make the same architectural decisions: Which auth provider? How do I handle Stripe subscriptions securely? Where should I host the edge functions? If you get these wrong, you end up with technical debt that slows you down later.…

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