This is a submission for the Neon Open Source Starter Kit Challenge : Ultimate Starter Kit

Django SaaS Boilerplate/Staterkit

This is a production ready Django SaaS Starter kit. You should focus on building your core functionality and skip writing repetitive code. This starterkit Comes packed with responsive design, landing page, Payment integration, blog, Custom user model, modern admin, sitemap and more.

Django is a popular choice among SaaS developers due to its flexibility, security and ability to rapidly develop and add features to their SaaS.

However, setting things up in the beginning would take time, such as making it Production ready, adding environment variables, adding blogs, creating the base template, payments and more. I tried to address many of these repetitive tasks by building this boilerplate

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Demo and link

Github repo: Ultimate Django SaaS starterkit

Try it out: Django Demo website (login password below 👇️)

To test admin login use.

demo@mail.com
demo123*

Note
You will not receive any confirmation email upon signup as its disabled, use the above account to login to admin dashboard

For testing stripe check out test cards: https://docs.stripe.com/testing

Features Packed for SaaS projects 🤩

• Production ready, you can immediately deploy this to cloud such as Vercel, Railway.app, Render.com etc.
• Comes with a landing page that you can modify.
• Responsive design, forget about making things responsive yourself, as it comes with a responsive base.html, you can extend from.
• Pricing page
• Postgres database ready. 💾
• ESP integration - Use transactional emails at scale. 📨
• Modern admin - uses unfold admin module. 🌟
• Payment integration - Default Stripe integration, just add your stripe keys and get started 💵
• Recurring charges
• Custom user model.
• Login and Signup flow, including, verification email, resend token, password reset.
• Contact us page.
• 404 page
• Has blog with pagination and Trix WYSIWYG editor built into the admin panel, so you can share articles with ease and build your SEO Game. 📖
• Technical SEO optimization.
• Dynamic Sitemap.xml
• Robots.txt
• Google analytics
• Django storages integration for production (default Google Object storage)
• Tailwind css setup for rapid development (note: the tailwind classes are prefixed with tw-, to differentiate them)

Well looks like you just saved over 60+ hrs of work and headaches.

Oh! wait

If you don't want to deal with landing page, I have also made prebuilt landing pages so you can focus on shipping, iterating and marketing your SaaS instead of wasting time on non-trivial things.

Whom is this Django Stater pack meant for?

• Solo SaaS developers, freelancers and Businesses
• For people building an MVP(minimum viable product) and trying to ship as quickly as possible.
• People looking to learn Django.
• People who just finished building core functionality and are looking to integrate landing page, blog, payment etc.

Getting started with the boilerplate

step 1: 🌟 Star the repo: https://github.com/PaulleDemon/Django-SAAS-Boilerplate

step 2: Clone the repo

git clone https://github.com/PaulleDemon/Django-SAAS-Boilerplate

step 3: Install dependencies in an environment (creating an environment is optional, but recommended)

pip install -r requirements.txt

step 4: Add a .env file inside the project folder with the following

DEBUG=1
PYTHON_VERSION=3.10
DOMAIN=""

ALLOWED_HOSTS=".up.railway.app, .vercel.app"
ALLOWED_CORS=""

SECRET_KEY=""
PORD_SECRET_KEY=""

DJANGO_SUPERUSER_EMAIL="" # optonal use if you want to create supruser using --noinput
DJANGO_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD="" # optonal use if you want to create supruser using --noinput

EMAIL_HOST="smtpout.server.net"
EMAIL_HOST_USER=""
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD=""

POSTGRES_DATABASE=""
POSTGRES_USER=""
POSTGRES_PASSWORD=""
POSTGRES_HOST=""

POSTGRES_URL=""

PROJECT_ID="" # firebase project id
BUCKET_NAME=".appspot.com" # firebase storage name
FIREBASE_CRED_PATH="project/firebase-cred.json"

FIREBASE_ENCODED=""
CLOUD_PLATFORM="RAILWAY"

GOOGLE_ANALYTICS="G-"

STRIPE_TEST_API_KEY=""
STRIPE_WEBHOOK_TEST_API_KEY=""
STRIPE_PUB_TEST_KEY=""

STRIPE_PROD_API_KEY=""
STRIPE_WEBHOOK_PROD_API_KEY=""
STRIPE_PUB_PROD_KEY=""

Step 5: Now in your terminal Create databases and Tables using

python manage.py migrate

Step 6: Now run the website from the terminal using.

python manage.py runserver

step 7: To run Tailwind CSS open a new terminal and run

python manage.py tailwind start

Note: If you are facing problems starting this program in windows OS, remove logging from project/settings.py

Vola! that's it now your starterkit running

Admin superuser

You admin will be located at: http://localhost:8000/admin

To create superuser use:

python manage.py createsuperuser

Deployment and more

You can deploy to Vercel for free, it also includes Neon postgres DB in its free tire 😉. The demo repo uses Vercel and Neon.

You can now read more about production settings in the readme file

More Tutorials to get you started

1. Adding Stripe to your Django SaaS
2. Adding ESP to send emails at scale
3. Deploying your Django SaaS to vercel

Follow and updates

I am Paul, A full-stack developer and self-funded opensource dev. I write open-source project most of the time, if you want to see more open-source project you can follow me on twitter and Github:

• Twitter
• Github

Upcoming project

My another upcoming open-source project is an extension, made to help you decide and pick better fonts for your website. You can test 1000+ fonts directly on your website. Its currently submitted for review, So if you want updates on that, you can visit Github Font Tester.

Thanks! Continue shipping your projects to production 🚀

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