Indie Kit is the world's first AI-optimized NextJS 16 boilerplate, meticulously crafted to help entrepreneurs and developers launch their SaaS, AI, or B2B applications in days, not months. It provides a comprehensive, production-ready codebase that eliminates the need to build foundational features from scratch, allowing you to focus on your unique product logic.
Key Features & Benefits:
- AI-Optimized Development: Integrates seamlessly with AI editors like Cursor and Windsurf, with tuned rules that enable AI to write code up to 10x faster. This optimization leads to better maintainability and faster iteration cycles.
- Modern Tech Stack: Built with the latest Next.js 16 App Router, React v19, TypeScript, and Tailwind CSS. It leverages robust technologies like Stripe and Lemon Squeezy for payments, Resend/Mailgun/Mailchimp for emails, PostgreSQL/Supabase/PlanetScale/Neon for databases, and Vercel for deployment.
- Comprehensive Authentication: Offers secure login flows including social sign-in (Google, GitHub), magic links, and traditional email/password. It includes role-based access control for private API routes and protected pages, along with a complete admin dashboard for user management and impersonation.
- Payment Integration: Pre-configured Stripe and Lemon Squeezy integrations handle subscriptions, webhooks, and billing logic, saving weeks of development time.
- Email Setup & Design: Features beautiful, responsive email templates using
react-email, automated welcome and onboarding sequences, and integration guides for services like SES, Resend, Mailgun, and Mailchimp. - Multi-Tenancy (Team Ready): Designed for B2B SaaS with organization-level isolation, team management, and granular role-based permissions. It supports inviting users, managing roles, and organization-level subscription plans.
- SEO Optimization: Includes NextSEO for robust search engine optimization, ensuring your application is discoverable from day one.
- Background Jobs: Integrates with Inngest for handling background processes, crucial for AI workflows, email sequences, and other asynchronous tasks.
- Production-Ready Codebase: Provides a clean, maintainable, and type-safe code structure with best practices baked in, ensuring a smooth development experience and easy scalability.
- Lifetime Updates & Mentorship: Users receive daily updates with the latest framework versions and new features, along with regular bug fixes. The "Pro" version includes 1-1 mentorship with the founder, CJ Singh, to guide you through your product development journey.
Use Cases: Indie Kit is ideal for founders and developers looking to build:
- SaaS Applications: Quickly set up subscription models, user management, and team collaboration features.
- AI Products: Leverage AI tooling and background job processing for complex AI workflows, as demonstrated by projects like DeepLogo AI and datelike.pro.
- B2B Solutions: Benefit from multi-tenancy, role-based access, and organization-level billing to cater to business clients.
By providing a fully-featured foundation, Indie Kit drastically reduces development time, allowing you to validate ideas and launch your product to market in a fraction of the time it would take to build from scratch.
