Cascade – open-source alternative to paid SaaS boilerplates

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Hey! I recently got laid off from my comfy engineering manager job and decided to go full-time indie hacking. I’ve built around 5 side projects in the last 3 years and have much experience in launching and getting sales. However, at this time, I need a way to do it faster as I am bleeding money. It usually took me more than 3-6 weeks from idea to shipping the MVP to the first users as I was busy setting up the typical flows like payments, analytics, error tracking, and whatnot. Usually, when everything was ready, I was not motivated to launch. I built Cascade to solve this problem! The idea is that the whole setup takes as little as 30 minutes, and you are ready to start working on your actual business logic. Most of the tools I chose are battle-tested and are either open-source or self-hostable. On my journey, I will fail at some things and learn some things as well. This will be reflected in the boilerplate to ensure I can save time for other future founders!

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Product HuntOn track for Day 1 leaderboard · Strong signals: user, open · Missing: mac, agents, macos

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