From 0 to 10K ⭐: How Open SaaS became the Free Boilerplate Devs Love

The Open SaaS Story When building an app, I want to start on the unique idea that sparked the project in the first place, not spend weeks configuring auth, payments, and user management. Of course, there are paid 3rd-party solutions for integrating things like authentication, cron jobs, and email sending quickly. And paid SaaS boilerplates exist, too. But when I looked there was surprisingly no great full-featured, open-source solution for building a SaaS quickly. So I decided to build one. And I'm excited to announce that it now has over 10,000 stars on GitHub! What is Open SaaS? For those unfamiliar, Open SaaS is a 100% free and open-source, batteries-included SaaS starter kit, built on top of the Wasp full-stack framework (using React, Node.js, and Prisma). Its mission is simple: Accelerate and focus your SaaS development by providing an open-source, full-featured foundation with essential features, like: Authentication (email, google, github, etc.) Payments (Stripe or Lemon Squeezy integration) Example Apps w/ the OpenAI API AWS S3 File Upload Email sending Admin dashboard And more, right out of the box The best part is that it doesn't rely on a ton of paid 3rd-party services like other templates do, so you own more of your app (oh, and you can deploy it wherever you want, too). Since its launch, Open SaaS hasn't just gathered stars; it has empowered developers to launch countless projects faster, turning ideas into profitable businesses, sometimes in a matter of days. It's been crazy to see the apps and businesses people are building with it, like some of these below (yes, all of them were built with Open SaaS

Apr 29, 2025 - 13:07

From 0 to 10K ⭐: How Open SaaS became the Free Boilerplate Devs Love

The Open SaaS Story

When building an app, I want to start on the unique idea that sparked the project in the first place, not spend weeks configuring auth, payments, and user management.

Of course, there are paid 3rd-party solutions for integrating things like authentication, cron jobs, and email sending quickly. And paid SaaS boilerplates exist, too.

But when I looked there was surprisingly no great full-featured, open-source solution for building a SaaS quickly.

So I decided to build one.

And I'm excited to announce that it now has over 10,000 stars on GitHub!

What is Open SaaS?

For those unfamiliar, Open SaaS is a 100% free and open-source, batteries-included SaaS starter kit, built on top of the Wasp full-stack framework (using React, Node.js, and Prisma).

Its mission is simple:

Accelerate and focus your SaaS development by providing an open-source, full-featured foundation with essential features, like:

Authentication (email, google, github, etc.)
Payments (Stripe or Lemon Squeezy integration)
Example Apps w/ the OpenAI API
AWS S3 File Upload
Email sending
Admin dashboard
And more, right out of the box

The best part is that it doesn't rely on a ton of paid 3rd-party services like other templates do, so you own more of your app (oh, and you can deploy it wherever you want, too).

Since its launch, Open SaaS hasn't just gathered stars; it has empowered developers to launch countless projects faster, turning ideas into profitable businesses, sometimes in a matter of days.

It's been crazy to see the apps and businesses people are building with it, like some of these below (yes, all of them were built with Open SaaS