When I first started building indie SaaS products, I had a terrible habit. I would get excited about a new idea, spin up a fresh Next.js repository, and then immediately get bogged down in the plumbing. I’d spend three days configuring NextAuth, another two wrestling with Stripe webhook signatures, and a whole weekend just trying to get my edge functions to deploy correctly. By the time the boilerplate was actually ready, my motivation was gone. I was struggling with the exact same setup tasks for every single project, losing my momentum to repetitive configuration. So I decided to build something.

The SaaS Setup Tax

The problem isn't that setting up billing and authentication is inherently difficult. It’s that it’s tedious and highly context-dependent. Every time I had to switch from building my core feature to debugging a CORS issue or a failing webhook, it took me at least twenty minutes to get back into the zone.…