For technical founders · first paid SaaS

The SaaS boilerplate for your first serious launch.

Stripe for taking payments, Resend for confirmation emails, Postgres, auth, cron, agent handoff, and commercial recipe briefs already wired into the repo. Skip the 2 to 4 weeks of picking, wiring, and debugging the boring parts. Start writing your actual product on day one.

Built for technical solo founders. If you’ve shipped a side project before — even just to localhost — you’ll feel at home here. Deploy to Vercel, Railway, or your own server. Your choice.

Stack
Next.js 16 · React 19
Data
Postgres · node-pg
Delivery
Your repo · your code
agentic stack

Toolbound Stack

A production SaaS boilerplate wired for Stripe, Resend, Cloudflare, Postgres and coding agents.

Stripe payments

Resend email

Cloudflare deploy

Agent handoff

§ 01 · What’s already done

Six problems already solved.

The boring decisions, the integrations that quietly break, the docs you never get round to writing. All shipped. You start writing the actual product on day one.

  1. Take real payments from day one

    payments

    Stripe Checkout for one-off or subscription payments, verified webhooks, customer portal, and Postgres-backed orders. Already wired, already tested.

  2. A real product, not a demo

    app

    Next.js 16, React 19, Tailwind v4. Server actions, App Router, design tokens. The choices already made and shipped.

  3. A real database, not a JSON file

    data

    Postgres with tested migrations. Plan-aware run limits, cost tracking, server actions baked in.

  4. Send the emails your app needs

    email

    Resend is wired for payment confirmations, buyer onboarding, support handoffs, and agent-triggered transactional emails.

  5. Background jobs that just work

    cron

    Minute-tick loop, jobs table, claim-then-handle pattern. The cron problem solved before you hit it.

  6. Your coding agent already knows the boilerplate

    agent

    AGENTS.md (the open cross-vendor standard), plus CLAUDE.md and Cursor rules. Works with Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, Windsurf, Aider, Cline. Hand the repo to your agent and it follows the rules from minute one.

§ 02 · Why choose us

Other boilerplates help you start. Toolbound helps your agent keep shipping.

The difference is not another dashboard template. It is the operating context: what the app does, what the agent can edit, what must be verified, and how payments and emails move through the product.

Buyer starts here

START_HERE.md tells the buyer what to run, what to connect, and what to hand to their coding agent.

Agent gets context

AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, docs/codebase-map.md, and the handoff brief explain safe edit zones and verification.

Money and email are real

Stripe records paid checkout. Resend sends download, confirmation, onboarding, support handoff, and seller-alert emails.

agent handoff
Read first:
- START_HERE.md
- AGENTS.md
- CLAUDE.md
- docs/codebase-map.md

Keep intact:
- Stripe checkout + signed webhooks
- Resend transactional email provider
- Postgres purchase/release records
- npm run verify

Task:
Turn this boilerplate into my SaaS for [audience].
Make the smallest useful change and verify it.

This is the part generic boilerplates usually skip: the repo tells Claude, Codex, Cursor, and similar agents how to work without breaking the commercial plumbing.

§ 03 · What it’s not

A boilerplate, but built for agents.

Deploy anywhere · Vercel, Railway, your own server
Vitest + verify gates
AGENTS.md · works with every coding agent
Recipe briefs, not finished vertical apps

§ 04 · Pricing

One-off repo licence. Lifetime updates.

Pay once, get the boilerplate as a download, push it into your own GitHub. Patches and new recipes land in your inbox. No subscription, no managed hosting, no sales calls.

toolbound stack

toolbound stack

£149

one-off · lifetime updates · your repo

  • Next.js 16 + Tailwind v4 SaaS boilerplate
  • Postgres + tested purchase pipeline
  • Stripe payments + Resend emails pre-wired
  • AGENTS.md + Cursor + CLAUDE.md rules
  • Commercial recipe briefs and agent-readiness checklist
  • Download, push to your own GitHub. Your code, your repo.
Buy Stack — £149

one-off · GBP · lifetime updates

Ready when you are

Stop scaffolding. Start shipping.

Buy Stack — £149