Gravity SaaS Boilerplate Arvostelua 29

Unlike pretty much any other SaaS starter kit out there, Gravity is non-refundable. And given its steep starting price (about 900 USD), you better be sure you won't regret the purchase as I did.

After I downloaded the starter kit, I followed the instructions pointed out in the documentation to set it up. It took a lot longer than expected since one mistake in the configuration (e.g. wrong DB host) breaks the wizard entirely (exception bubbles up) and the whole app needs to be restarted.

Once I finally managed to get it working, I tried to follow the author’s tutorial on how to create a Todo app where I had very different results than shown in the video (for example layout in my app looked bad, while the one in the video was polished although I followed the same steps).

Eventually I got frustrated since the product just didn’t feel polished and mature enough as advertised, and there is no way to get a refund (even a partial one). I ended up buying a RoR starter kit (no prior experience with Ruby) and I was able to set it up in no time and built a first MVP of my product within a weekend. That’s the experience I was looking for!

If you absolutely need a Javascript SAAS starter kit, go with Gravity. If you don’t care about the tech stack as I do, there are many other more mature options available based on RoR, Asp.Net Core or Laravel that will cost you a fraction of Gravity and are refundable. Also, with mature starter kits your answers are one google query away, with Gravity you must join a Slack community for help.

Great boilerplate, has consistently improved over the year and really helped speed up development for a one person startup. Highly recommended!

Lot's of nice features and components out of the box, easy to build on top of with the gravity CLI. Cleanly coded and well documented, it's helped me rethink and improve how I write some code, as well as saved hundreds of hours

The code is sublime and the mastermind behind it is very supportive.

Solid starting point. Will save you sometime which you can use to flesh out other things.

Gravity saves me a lot of time.
It's great to use a ready boilerplate that has almost all important integrations already done. It has good architecture, and it's easy to learn. I'm really happy with this boilerplate.

I have been shopping around for a Node.js boilerplate for the SaaS I’m building. During my initial evaluation it came ahead by using React, having Json emails, having simple to use form components, proper security, third party login, and last but not least full featured mobile app template. It took me only a few days to get the shell of the SaaS online and it’s been an amazing experience since.
It almost feels like a no code solution - you just plug in your code into the pre-built template. And from the point of view that the code was written for me, it was no code indeed.

Easy to setup, saved weeks of development time and amazing aftercare in the Slack community. No brainer.

Gravity is an excellent tool for saas projects. The codebase has great structure and is well-maintained and if you have any questions, Kyle is very responsive.