Jorge, our CEO, loves building things fast. Too fast? Let’s not debate that haha. One of Startino’s goals is to build and launch our own SaaS products.
As we were iterating on some ideas, we noticed that creating new SaaS applications from scratch involves significant time and effort, with our developers spending considerable resources on trivial features like user authentication and payment integration rather than focusing on core business logic.
Before spending the resources into a new project, we always have to look for alternatives. Why would we reinvent the wheel? There’s not much innovation here, to be blunt. In our search, we found Critical Moment’s SaaS Starter on Github. This was great news, but after looking through the code base, we noticed that it wasn’t up to date (Svelte 4 instead of Svelte 5, for example), and wasn’t as maintained as we would need from a starter pack.
We forked CM’s amazing repository and added our own “tino” spark to it.
SaaS Starter is our open-source foundation for rapidly building SaaS applications. It comes packed with:
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