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Discussion on: I built my first SaaS on Next.js

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vladi160

Nice, but 400$ for a boilerplate, I am not sure about that.

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Joel Rainwater

I get that. I was hesitant at first too. Of course I paid less because I preordered before it was released.

I looked at it as an investment. For one thing, it taught me a lot of things. Just better ways to configure a project with these tech, or how some of these tech even work. But also, it saved me potentially weeks of setup and low-level work for things like authentication and emails.

It just depends on how your value your time. For me, 2 weeks of my time is worth more than $400 to me, plus the ROI from everything I learned. I rarely spend money when I can do something myself, but I don’t regret this one at all.