Next.js SaaS Boilerplate for Indie Hackers
Skip the Setup.
Ship your Startup Faster than Ever.
Stop rebuilding auth, billing, and infrastructure. ZeroDrag gives you a production-ready SaaS foundation so you can start building your product immediately.
🔥 Launch Offer — 50% OFF for the next 20 founding builders
All the boring, repetitive setup stuff
Handled. So you can ship faster.
= 35+ hours of real work. Gone forever.
No more weekends lost to wiring auth and payments.
Errors caught before users complain. Everything battle-tested.
Change providers anytime. No rewrites. No vendor traps.
This website was built using ZeroDrag
The only setup was filling in a .env file. Auth, payments, database, and email were already wired. We just added our credentials and shipped.
If it works for zerodrag.cloud in production, it will work for your SaaS too.
Everything That Slows Indie Builders Down
| Stage | The Problem | With ZeroDrag |
|---|---|---|
| Idea | Wiring auth, DB schema, env config, you never actually start building | Clone, configure .env, start building your actual product |
| First users | Payments and webhooks unwired, users can't pay on day 1 | Stripe + Razorpay wired. Webhooks handled. Users can pay on day 1. |
| Growth | Provider lock-in and forced rewrites, you get stuck or burn out | Swap providers via env vars. No rewrites. |
| Production | No monitoring or error tracking, your app dies at 3 AM | Sentry pre-configured. Errors caught before users notice. |
ZeroDrag removes all of it before you even open the repo.
Built for shipping. Not for tutorials.
ZeroDrag assumes you already know how to build apps. It removes the boring, repetitive setup so you can focus on shipping.
Built for
- Indie hackers shipping real SaaS
- Solo founders going from idea to paid users
- Developers who move fast and want a battle-tested foundation
- Engineers tired of wiring the same stuff again
Not for
- People new to web development
- No-code builders
- Teams that need full custom architecture
You don't set these up.
They're already done.
Included by default. No setup. No toggles.
Authentication
Google OAuth + Magic Links
Powered by NextAuth
Google OAuth
Passwordless magic links
Account linking (multiple providers per user)
Server-side auth helpers
Secure JWT sessions
Payments & Subscriptions
Stripe & Razorpay
Paywalls and webhooks included
Unified checkout API
Subscription lifecycle (create, cancel, reactivate)
Webhook handling
Automatic entitlement sync
Switch providers via environment variables
Entitlements & Protected Routes
Role and plan-based access control
Server-side protected routes
Paywalls setup
Role and plan-based access control
Server-side protected routes
Feature gating by subscription tier
Permissions enforced across API and UI
SEO & App Routing
SEO-ready landing and marketing pages
Metadata, Open Graph, and sitemap setup
SEO-ready landing and marketing pages
Metadata, Open Graph, and sitemap setup
Public and protected route separation
Built for Next.js App Router
Database & ORM
PostgreSQL + Prisma
Works with modern cloud databases
Provider-agnostic PostgreSQL setup
Prisma ORM with typed queries
Seed scripts included
Production-safe migrations
Tested with Supabase, Neon, Railway, AWS RDS, and Google Cloud SQL
Email System
Transactional emails pre-wired
Designed to avoid spam
Resend integration
React-based email templates
HTML + plain text support
Local testing interface
AI Infrastructure
PROOpenAI, Claude, Gemini
Usage tracked and controlled
Multi-provider abstraction
Server-side execution (keys never exposed)
Rate limiting per user
Token usage tracking
Streaming support
Error Tracking
PROProduction monitoring
Powered by Sentry
API & webhook error capture
React error boundaries
Performance traces
Sensitive data filtering
UI & Theming
shadcn/ui + dark mode
Fully customizable design tokens
Token-based theming system
Dark and light themes
Reusable UI components
No styling lock-in
Pages You Don't Have to Build
Marketing, auth, billing - all included. You focus on your product.
Ship your idea, skip the wiring
Included out of the box:
Marketing pages: Landing, Pricing, Terms & Privacy
Product dashboard
Billing & subscription management
Where you build:
/app/(protected)/product- your product logic
/components/product- your UI
Everything else is ready and production-safe.
More coming. Always.
We ship improvements based on real usage and community feedback.
No hype. No fluff. Just useful upgrades.
Analytics dashboard (because numbers tell the truth)
More integrations
Fewer things you have to build yourself
From idea to paid users in under 2 hours.
No setup hell. No contracts. Just ship.
Buy once
One-time payment. Lifetime access.
Clone the repo
Your code. Your GitHub.
Configure
Auth, database, payments – already wired.
Build
Focus only on your features.
Ship
Deploy and start getting users.
Buy once
One-time payment. Lifetime access.
Clone the repo
Your code. Your GitHub.
Configure
Auth, database, payments – already wired.
Build
Focus only on your features.
Ship
Deploy and start getting users.
That's it. No calls. No lock-in.
See the real thing.
Real code. Real setup. Real output.
What you'll see:
- ·Folder structure and where everything lives
- ·How to run the project locally (install, env, start)
- ·Key config and where to plug in your keys
- ·From clone to first deploy in one flow
ZeroDrag turns a blank repo into a live SaaS in minutes.
Simple pricing. Own your code.
One-time payment. No subscriptions. Ship without limits.
- Complete Next.js boilerplate
- Authentication (OAuth + Magic Links)
- Stripe & Razorpay payments
- SEO-ready landing and marketing pages
- Entitlements & access control
- PostgreSQL + Prisma ORM
- Email templates & flows
- Dark mode + UI components
- No usage limits
- AI provider integrations
- Error tracking & monitoring
- Priority support and lifetime updates
- Everything in Starter
- AI integrations (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini)
- Error tracking & monitoring using Sentry
- Priority support
- Lifetime access to updates
- No usage limits