ShipAhead is a comprehensive Nuxt boilerplate designed to accelerate the launch of AI SaaS products from months to days. It targets founders and makers who want to bypass the tedious initial setup and focus directly on building their unique product features. The boilerplate is built with modern technologies including Nuxt 4, Vue 3, Tailwind CSS v4, and daisyUI v5, providing a robust and aesthetically pleasing foundation.
Key features include:
- Authentication: A complete authentication system powered by Better Auth, offering email & password login, magic links, Google login, and robust forgot/reset password flows. It also includes private and protected pages to secure user data. This feature alone saves approximately 30 hours of development time.
- Backbone: Provides the essential backend infrastructure with Drizzle ORM for database management (PostgreSQL), cloud storage integration (S3 / R2) for files, a fully functional admin dashboard for managing users and roles, and task automation capabilities. This saves around 35 hours.
- Payments: Seamless integration with Stripe for accepting payments globally. It includes ready-to-use complete checkout flows for both one-time purchases and subscription models, saving approximately 25 hours.
- Languages: Full internationalization support using Vue i18n, allowing easy language switching and multi-language content management, saving 8 hours.
- Security: Enhanced security features like built-in CAPTCHA (Cloudflare Turnstile) and request limiting (Upstash) to prevent abuse and protect users, saving 10 hours.
- Email: Reliable transactional email setup using Resend and Vue Email, with pre-made templates to ensure emails reach inboxes effectively, saving 15 hours.
- SEO: Optimized for search engines from day one with Nuxt SEO, helping your app get discovered faster, saving 6 hours.
- Deployment: Streamlined deployment options for platforms like Vercel and Cloudflare Workers, ensuring a headache-free launch, saving 6 hours.
- Style: A modern and responsive frontend built with Nuxt, Vue, TailwindCSS, and daisyUI, offering a wide range of UI components, full customizability, 20+ themes, and scalable layouts, saving 30 hours.
- PWA: Progressive Web App capabilities with Vite PWA, making your application installable on any device, saving 5 hours.
- Customer Support: Integrated live chat support (Crisp) to assist users directly, saving 2 hours.
- AI Integration: Ready for AI-powered features with OpenRouter integration, and compatible with popular AI helpers like Cursor, Windsurf, Github Copilot, OpenAI, Claude, Grok, and Gemini, saving 6 hours.
- Other Goodies: Includes copy-paste templates, easy-to-follow tutorials, ready-to-use legal pages, and access to an exclusive Discord community for support and collaboration, saving 10 hours.
ShipAhead aims to save over 200 hours of development time, allowing developers to focus on core innovation rather than repetitive setup tasks. It offers lifetime access and updates, making it a valuable long-term investment for SaaS entrepreneurs. The product is ideal for those looking to quickly validate AI-driven business ideas or scale existing projects without the initial development burden.
