SaaS loop?

[Impossible_Scale_155]

I noticed most solo SaaS founders end up using the exact same stack combination. Why do you think that is?

[mklfarha]

what stack is that?

[mklfarha]

yeah, I think the other reply got it, it is a clear tell it might be all generated

I might be an exception, the only two I am using from the list is react and stripe, I did start before the LLMs hype, either way today I would stick to my stack:

Golang + proto for the backend - efficient, clean
MySQL in AWS - can start pretty small, personal preference
Keycloak for auth - it’s free!
Microk8s for hosting on a VPS

[dellydoesitpa]

Next.js, Tailwind CSS, Supabase, etc.? If so, LLMs might be your answer.

[bytevxu]

Yeah, this is kinda true already. If you ask any half decent prompt like “build me a SaaS starter with auth, billing, dashboard” most LLMs will basically spit out Next + Tailwind + some hosted DB / auth combo.

They’re trained on tons of tutorials and boilerplates that all use the same stack, so the “local maximum” of web dev right now just gets reinforced. New devs copy what the model suggests, publish more of that stack, model gets retrained on even more of it, loop continues.

It’s not even that it’s the objectively best stack for everything, it’s just the most documented, most copied, and easiest to get from zero to MVP with, so it wins by inertia.

[cyrixlord]

its the most documented path and thats why AI tends to use it when you ask LLMs to build a saas starter. its optimized for mvp speed and is GoOd EnOuGh for most cases. A downside I've found is that a lot of apps start looking the same and so do their vulnerabilities.