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ShipFast
A Next.js SaaS boilerplate with auth, payments and email wired up.
KINDA
why this verdict
Downgrade — pay for the workflow, not the AI
create-t3-app covers the headline feature free, so the $199/mo is now paying for the workflow around it.
- A named launch, not a vibe named, unlinked
- AI agents scaffold the same boilerplate in minutes for free. Anthropic, March 1, 2025 — no announcement link recorded yet.
- How much of the job it covers headline only editorial call
- The headline feature, but not the workflow, data or integrations around it.
- Is there a free way to do it? yes
- 1 of 3 listed replacements have a usable free tier: create-t3-app.
- What the call is worth $2,388/yr
- $199/mo at the entry paid tier — $2,388 a year per seat.
Reason composed from the fields above missing: announcement linked recorded: free replacement listed recorded: two or more escape hatches
- Threatened by
- Anthropic
- Since
- March 1, 2025
- List price
- $199/mo
- Per year
- $2,388
The backstory
ShipFast sold the idea that you should not rewrite Stripe webhooks and auth for the tenth time, and made its author famous on X for it. Then Cursor and Claude Code started scaffolding exactly that in an afternoon, so the value moved from the code to the opinionated choices and the community around them.
Escape hatches
switching could free up $2,388/yr C 
Claude Code Scaffolds it on demand.
claude.com open_in_new M 
Makerkit More thorough boilerplate.
makerkit.dev open_in_new C 
create-t3-app Free, community-maintained.
create.t3.gg open_in_new1 of 3 replacements have a usable free tier.
