Open SaaS
A complete, genuinely free SaaS template with an admin dashboard
Open SaaS is a full featured SaaS template built on Wasp, covering auth, Stripe or Lemon Squeezy payments, an admin dashboard, a blog, email and analytics. It is the most complete free option here, and the trade is that it is built on a framework rather than on plain React.
What complete actually means here
The admin dashboard and analytics are the parts nobody builds until they urgently need them. Having them present, working and readable on day one is a genuine head start.
Two payment providers rather than one also matters. Lemon Squeezy acts as a merchant of record, which handles sales tax in places where doing it yourself is a serious undertaking.
The framework question
Wasp is a full stack framework with its own configuration language that compiles to React and Node. That buys a lot of generated plumbing and it means learning something that is not transferable to your next project.
Judge it on that alone. If you are happy inside a framework, this is the most complete free kit available. If you want plain React and Node, pick something else rather than fighting the abstraction.
Reach for it when
- you want an admin dashboard and analytics without building them
- you need a merchant of record option for sales tax
- you are comfortable working inside a framework
Watch out for
- Wasp is another framework to learn, with its own configuration language
- the abstraction is helpful until you need something it did not anticipate
- a smaller ecosystem than plain Next.js, so fewer existing answers
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