How to Ship Your SaaS in a Weekend
A practical guide to going from idea to production in 48 hours using a modern boilerplate stack.
By Ege Uysal
Building a SaaS from scratch used to take months. With the right boilerplate, you can compress that into a weekend. Here's how.
Start with Auth
Authentication is the first thing every SaaS needs and the last thing you want to build from scratch. Clerk gives you sign-in, sign-up, session management, and billing out of the box. Plug it in, configure your routes, and move on.
Pick a Database That Stays Out of Your Way
Convex handles real-time sync, schema validation, and server functions in one package. No ORMs, no migration headaches for prototyping. Define your schema, write your queries, and you're live.
Don't Skip Analytics
You need to know what users are doing from day one. PostHog gives you event tracking, session replay, and feature flags. Reverse-proxy it through Next.js rewrites so ad blockers don't eat your data.
Ship It
Deploy to Vercel, point your domain, and start getting feedback. The perfect stack is the one that lets you iterate fastest.