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Building a SaaS application from scratch is time-consuming. Between setting up authentication, integrating payment processing, configuring email systems, and building a polished UI, weeks can easily turn into months before you have an MVP ready to validate your idea.

CodeSmart changes that. Our Next.js template provides all the foundational infrastructure you need to launch a production-ready SaaS in under 2 hours—no boilerplate, no configuration hell, just a single config file that controls everything.

Getting Started

CodeSmart comes with everything you need out of the box:

• Authentication Ready: Google OAuth and Magic Links with Auth.js, fully configured and secured
• Payment Integration: Stripe subscriptions with webhook handling, customer portal, and multiple pricing tiers
• Email System: Transactional emails via Mailgun or SMTP with responsive HTML templates
• Modern UI: Beautiful landing pages, dashboard, and component library built with Tailwind CSS and DaisyUI
• SEO Optimized: Dynamic metadata, Open Graph tags, JSON-LD structured data, and sitemap generation
• Blog System: Markdown-based blog with syntax highlighting, reading time estimates, and static generation
• Database Ready: MongoDB integration with Mongoose and optimized connection pooling
• Production Ready: TypeScript throughout, ESLint configured, security headers, and Vercel deployment config

Code Example

Getting started is as simple as editing the config file. Here's how you customize your SaaS branding:

import { config } from '@/config'

export const config: Config = {
  site: {
    name: 'YourSaaS',
    description: 'Your value proposition here',
    url: process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_SITE_URL || 'http://localhost:3000',
  },
  theme: {
    primaryColor: '#6366f1',
    mode: 'system',
  },
  stripe: {
    plans: [
      {
        id: 'starter',
        name: 'Starter',
        price: 999, // $9.99
        features: ['Feature 1', 'Feature 2', 'Feature 3'],
      },
    ],
  },
}

That's it! The entire application adapts to your configuration. No hunting through dozens of files to update your brand name or pricing. Everything flows from this single source of truth.

Why CodeSmart?

We built CodeSmart because we were tired of rebuilding the same infrastructure for every new SaaS idea. Every project needed authentication, payments, email, and a dashboard. Every time, we'd spend weeks on plumbing before writing a single line of business logic.

Now, that foundation is ready to go. Clone the repo, update the config, deploy to Vercel, and start building features that actually matter to your users.

Ready to launch faster? Get started with CodeSmart today and ship your MVP in hours, not weeks.