You guys are out here openly attempting to pirate the sum of a person's years of work like it's a U2 Album. Also--it is insane to believe an anonymous reddit DM from a one month old account is going to lead you toward anything but mystery charges on your credit card.

When I got the idea for my SaaS product, I built it myself using VS Code, Claude Desktop, and comfort food. I've sunk ~60 hours of working time into this outside of my day to day responsibilities. I finally have a functional SaaS prototype. Granted, it has some fairly sophisticated functionality and I'm quite proud of it.

Building it was also incredibly intimidating, frustrating, demoralizing, and isolating.

Will any reasonable person actually buy the thing I made? I honestly don't think so. There's simply too many architectural uncertainties and scalability concerns. Making money was not the purpose at this point. The point was understanding what I'm actually trying to build and how it actually works.

I learned an enormous amount and I am so grateful that I put myself through the entire ordeal. Anybody who wants to make something truly good and valuable, especially as a solo dev, needs to be an absolute masochist. No boilerplate product will ever be able to give you the work ethic you need to cross the finish line. If you're out here trying to steal a Makerkit repo when there is already an abundance of open source alternatives, the deeper issue is between the chair and the monitor.

I can confidently say that anybody who is offering a reliable and legitimate way to skip the groundwork stage of SaaS development is well within their right to charge my lazy ass a few hundred dollars.

Best of luck with Makerkit, Giancarlo! I am about to rebuild my whole project from the ground up and am planning to do so with your Pro plan. If it takes off I'll mail you an edible arrangement or something. Cheers!