I love building products. I hate rebuilding auth for the 100th time.

My SaaS cycle:

1. Get a cool idea.

2. Open terminal.

3. `npx create-next-app`

4. Spend the next week fighting:

   * OAuth providers

   * Webhooks that silently fail

   * Email templates that only look good on exactly zero clients

5. Lose all enthusiasm before I even reach the “cool” part of the product.

I started tinkering with a pre-built Next.js SaaS boilerplate that already has auth, payments, emails, and a decent UI wired up, and suddenly I’m actually working on features again.

Anyone else reached that stage where you’re okay with outsourcing the “boring but essential” plumbing as long as you can still tweak the stack (DB, ORM, runtime, etc.)?

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