GetShipKit — Ship indie software faster with a batteries-included toolkit

What is GetShipKit?

GetShipKit is a developer toolkit for indie builders. A pre-wired Next.js + TypeScript foundation with auth, payments, transactional emails, analytics, SEO, and deployment configs already set up correctly — so the first thing you do on a new project isn't rebuild infrastructure you've rebuilt ten times before.

It's the boilerplate version of everything I'd otherwise copy-paste out of previous projects. Cleaned up, documented, and tested to boot in under two minutes.

Live at getshipkit.com.

The problem

Starting a new Mac, iOS, or web app means wiring up auth, payments, analytics, emails, and SEO for the hundredth time. That's weeks of repetitive setup before you can touch the part that actually matters. And unless you're careful every time, you end up with five slightly-different auth implementations across five projects — each with its own subtle bugs.

The failure mode: you start a new side project, spend three weekends setting up Supabase + Stripe + Resend + PostHog + Vercel, lose momentum, and the project dies before it ever did the thing that made you excited enough to start. Setup overhead is where side projects die.

What it does

• Next.js 15 App Router baseline with TypeScript and Tailwind already configured
• Auth via Supabase (magic link + social providers wired up)
• Payments via Stripe with subscription, one-off, and webhook handlers working end-to-end
• Transactional email via Resend with template examples and a test-send harness
• Analytics via PostHog with conversion events pre-instrumented
• SEO defaults — metadata, OG images, sitemap, robots, JSON-LD
• Dashboard scaffold — account settings, billing, team management
• Email templates for welcome, payment success, password reset, trial-ending
• Deployment configs for Vercel with environment variables documented

How it works

You clone the repo, run pnpm install, fill in environment variables for Supabase, Stripe, Resend, and PostHog, and run pnpm dev. The landing page, sign-up flow, billing dashboard, and webhook handlers are already wired. You start shipping the feature that's unique to your product on day one instead of day twenty.

The stack is deliberately opinionated. Supabase for auth + Postgres, Stripe for payments, Resend for email, PostHog for analytics, Vercel for hosting. You can swap pieces out, but the defaults are what I ship every new product on — so they're the most battle-tested.

Every piece has its own README explaining why that choice over the alternatives, what to do if you want to swap it, and the common pitfalls. This is the part that matters — the code is easy; the reasoning is what saves you the re-litigation.

Who it's for

• Indie developers shipping paid side projects
• Solo-built SaaS founders who want to skip the plumbing and get to product
• Teams doing rapid validation — spin up a new idea, get users paying within a week
• Developers who've done this setup before and want it done correctly every time

Real scenarios

A weekend MVP. You want to validate a new SaaS idea. Clone GetShipKit, wire your domain, swap the landing copy, add your one core feature, deploy. Friday evening to Sunday night, and you have a functional product with payments.

A paid audience drop. You have an audience on X and want to monetize a narrow tool (a PDF cleaner, a batch resizer, a niche calculator). GetShipKit gets you from "I have an idea" to "I have a Stripe-integrated paywalled tool live at a subdomain" in an afternoon.

Learning modern stack defaults. You've been away from web development for a year. GetShipKit is a reference of a current, working stack — configured the way someone who ships for a living actually ships.

Why I built it

Every indie product I shipped under DRISH LABS reinvented some piece of this stack. The first time you wire Stripe webhooks to a Next.js route handler it takes two days. The tenth time it takes an hour and still isn't as clean as it could be. That's a lot of wasted energy over a lifetime of building.

GetShipKit is that accumulated tax, paid once, collected forever. Every piece exists because I wrote it, threw it away, rewrote it, and finally got tired enough to package it. The promise is narrow: skip the boring parts, ship the interesting ones.

Alternatives and how it compares

• create-next-app: the official Next.js starter. Great foundation, but zero opinions — no auth, no payments, no analytics. You'd still spend two weeks wiring the rest.
• ShipFast / Makerkit / Saas UI: the main commercial competitors. Feature-overlapping, well-polished. Different opinions — some prefer Prisma to direct Supabase access, some use Tailwind UI components differently. Pick whichever stack matches how you actually ship.
• Roll your own: the default if you've shipped a few products. Works, but it's a tax you pay every new repo, and the copy-paste drift adds up.

GetShipKit's differentiator is that it ships what I actually use to ship — no hypothetical stacks, no "could use this or that." The same tools I use for DRISH LABS products, documented for someone else to pick up.

FAQ

What's the license? One-time purchase, use on unlimited personal and client projects. No redistribution, no reselling the boilerplate itself.

Does it support TypeScript + JavaScript or just one? TypeScript only. If you're shipping in 2026 without type safety, this kit isn't for you.

What if I don't want Supabase / Stripe / Resend? Each piece has a "how to swap this out" doc. The code is structured so you can replace auth or payments without touching the rest.

Is there AI/agent tooling baked in? A thin anthropic client, example prompt-caching setup, and a rate-limited API route. Minimal — the kit assumes AI usage is a feature of your product, not a default of every product.

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