Turned my side project into a boilerplate — validating demand before I finish polishing it
Spent the last few weeks building SmartShop: a .NET 8 e-commerce API with AI-generated product descriptions and a catalog chatbot, plus an Angular admin dashboard. Fully deployed on Azure so it's a real, working product, not just a mockup.
Instead of spending more weekends polishing it before anyone's seen it, I put up a pre-order page to see if there's actual demand before I sink more time into making it "sellable" (removing my branding, writing full docs, etc).
If you're a developer who's ever wanted to skip the boring auth/roles/architecture setup for an e-commerce or AI-powered SaaS project, I'd love your honest take — would this be useful to you, and at what price point?
https://nachosaiza.gumroad.com/l/yxzrtf
Not trying to spam, genuinely looking for signal before I commit more time.
Posted Sep 13, 2026, 6:28 AM UTC