Open-source SaaS boilerplates worth shipping.
A hand-picked gallery of production-ready starters. Every one comes with three honest deploy paths: clone the source from GitHub, ship to Vercel, or deploy with the platform of your choice.
Why this gallery exists
There are thousands of “starter kits” out there. Most are abandoned, half-documented, or a thin wrapper around a paywall. We grew tired of cloning a repo only to find it hadn't booted since two Next.js versions ago.
So we keep a short list of boilerplates we've actually run. We check the license, the commit history, and whether it deploys without a weekend of plumbing. If it doesn't clear the bar, it doesn't make the grid.
Each card carries the same three buttons: read the source on GitHub, deploy to Vercel, or deploy with Totalum. No lock-in, no sign-up wall. Just the fastest honest path from “interesting” to a running URL.
- Genuinely open source: a permissive or copyleft license you can actually read.
- Recent commits, maintained this year and not abandoned three frameworks ago.
- Runs in one command. Clone, install, and it boots locally without a yak-shave.
- Deploy-ready, with env vars documented and a one-click path to a live URL.
From the gallery field notes
Curator notes on the stacks we're testing. The secondary read, not the main event.
MinIO vs Garage vs SeaweedFS: self-hosted S3 after the archive, measured (2026)
Three self-hosted S3-compatible object stores, compared on the things the listicles miss: what MinIO's archive actually retired, why Garage's star count is unmeasurable, and what a 36-release year means for your upgrade discipline.
Mara Lindqvist · August 24, 2026Editorial notesPublication Dates Corrected on Three Early ShipGarden Stack Guides
Three founding stack guides carried publication dates from before shipgarden.com was registered. A date audit on August 23, 2026 caught it and all three are corrected. Here is what changed, why it happened, and the two public lookups you can run to check us.
Yui Tanaka · August 23, 2026SaaS stacksUptime Kuma vs Gatus vs OpenStatus: the self-hosted status page comparison, measured (2026)
Three open-source status pages, compared on the things features lists never cover: whether you can pin a version, what the compose file actually does, and how fast each project is really moving.
Yui Tanaka · August 23, 2026Built something worth shipping?
Submit your open-source boilerplate and we'll run it through the same bar as everything else in the garden.