Tired of every SaaS boilerplate forcing you into a JavaScript framework? ShipStacks provides production-ready starter kits for 25 distinct stacks across 12 backend languages like Python, Go, Rust, and Ruby. Every template comes with OAuth (Google & GitHub), Stripe subscriptions, file uploads, and Docker pre-configured right out of the box. Stop rebuilding the foundational boring stuff. Buy once, own the code, and ship instantly in the language you actually love.
It provided a fully functional Rust Axum backend with Google/GitHub OAuth and Stripe subscriptions already pre-configured. It allowed me to launch my startup, Medicko, weeks ahead of schedule.
What needs improvement
Adding transactional email templates directly out-of-the-box would be a nice future addition, but the core stack is already fully launch-ready.
vs Alternatives
I considered building the auth and billing systems from scratch, but it is a massive time sink. ShipStacks was the only option that provided a hardened, containerized Rust template with a working frontend integration.
The ability to choose non-JavaScript backends (like Go, Rust, and Elixir) while keeping a modern SPA frontend. The zero-install docker compose workflow makes setup instant.
What needs improvement
More deployment-specific blueprints (like detailed setup guides for AWS, Fly.io, or Railway) would be a great addition to the docs later on
vs Alternatives
I looked at standard Next.js boilerplates, but I didn't want to use Node for the backend database logic. I chose ShipStacks because it gave me a clean backend in the language I actually wanted to use.