Making a Free AI SaaS App from Templates

Setting-up-free-SaaS-website-2025.txt

Free Open Source Options

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General Business Help
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Get a name for your Business name or/and App 
- https://refined.so/tools/free-domain-name-generator?ref=opensourceboilerplates.com
- https://www.ionos.com/ai-domain-name-generator
- https://www.wix.com/tools/business-name-generator

Get a waitinglist landing page - https://www.framer.com/marketplace/templates/waitliz/

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Prerequisites
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A Web Browser - https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/edge/
I'm using Edge as my preferred browser

An IDE - https://code.visualstudio.com/download
I'm using Visual Studio Code - It has a WASP etc for OpenSaas

A place for your code - https://gitlab.com/
I use Gitlab for this - please install the gitlab VSC extention

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Online Website Builders
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Webflow - https://webflow.com/
Free SaaS Templates - https://webflow.com/templates/subcategory/software-and-saas-websites?free=true 
Paid AI Templates - https://webflow.com/templates/search?query=Ai 
(If you change your mind about free)

Bubble - https://bubble.io/
This is free to some extent but some limitations!
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Template Libraries - Get most of the work done for you  already!
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UI/Web Design
SaaS website kit - https://www.framer.com/marketplace/templates/blocks/
More SaaS Template - https://www.framer.com/marketplace/templates/category/saas/?query=free

React + JS + Tailwinds etc
https://opensourceboilerplates.com/
https://nextjstemplates.com/templates
https://streamlit.io/gallery
https://share.streamlit.io/explore?utm_source=streamlit&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=rethink&utm_content=-ss-streamlit-io-galleryhero&sort=most+viewed&category=favorites

Templates on Github & Netlify
https://next-saas-start.vercel.app/
https://astro-sanity-starter-demo.netlify.app/
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OpenSaaS - https://opensaas.sh/
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Docs Getting Started - https://docs.opensaas.sh/

Here is the starter Template - https://wasp.sh/docs/project/starter-templates
(Select Option [1] for Template - If you don't use the starter template it will be blank)

Start with this - wasp new <project-name> -t saas

Remember to have 'Docker' open!

If you followed everything and there were no issues

 it should load on here - http://localhost:3000/
 
 
 Notes in the comments about troublshooting the errors I encountered setting up OpenSaaS.sh
 [Issues while setting up OpenSaaS on my M1 Mac with fixes Fab 2025 (Guide for noobs)
 
 View here > https://gist.github.com/davidjenner/b25e786edb1982f63bc45cf959442a7a

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SaaS Boilerplate
SaaS Boilerplate - https://github.com/ixartz/SaaS-Boilerplate / Repo - https://github.com/ixartz/SaaS-Boilerplate.git
You can instantly deploy this to Render.com from the repo, don't need to install locally
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Publish Full Stack Apps to the web for free
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You can use Netlify and Github pages for static but you need these for full stack JS etc apps

Render - https://render.com/
I was able to publish the SaaS boilerplate repo here no issues, and you can connect a domain

Streamlit - https://streamlit.io/
I found this a litle bit complicated as you need to add in some code beforehand
Most of the templates are not that revolutionary nowadays but you can use the blank template - https://share.streamlit.io/new/deploy-from-template/02d16230-8937-4c2d-bbd6-e9ff982734e0
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update with more opensaas tips

more fixes to errors I encountered with Wasp on my M1 MacBook

Here's what it says in my .profile file

export PATH=$PATH:/Users/david/.local/bin' >> ~/.zshrc
source ~/.zshrc

Issues while setting up OpenSaaS on my M1 Mac with fixes Fab 2025 (Guide for noobs)