Why do we still spend 80 hours wiring up the same AI infrastructure?

I’ve realized a massive bottleneck in the AI SaaS space: we all have great ideas, but we are all stuck doing the exact same repetitive groundwork.

Before you can even touch your core LLM features, you have to wire up multi-tenant auth, build out a vector database, set up billing webhooks, and write server-side guards so a single user doesn't burn through your API credits. It’s exhausting and kills momentum.

I'm putting the finishing touches on **AgentZero**—a production-grade Next.js boilerplate that solves this so developers can skip the first 80 hours of setup.

I'm curious for the founders and devs here: **What is the absolute most painful or tedious part of starting a new AI project for you?** Is it the auth, the RAG pipelines, or the billing?

*(Launching AgentZero soon—would love to know what roadblocks I can help eliminate!)*