Starter kits get judged on what they include. I think they should get judged on what they leave out, because every feature you ship is a feature you maintain — and your buyer inherits that maintenance. Here's what my Laravel + React SaaS starter kit delib... See more
The hardest part of shipping a product demo isn't the demo itself. It's that the demo needs a backend, and backends need servers, and servers need babysitting. I wanted a demo page anyone could click through — login, dashboard, user management — with zero... See more
I used to handle API errors in React the way most people do: one big try/catch, one generic toast, done. It worked, and every form looked like it was built by someone who had given up. The fix wasn't a library. It was a contract: Laravel always returns va... See more
Every admin panel I've ever built has a users table. Or a products table. Or an orders table. They're all the same shape: rows of records, a couple of status pills, edit and delete actions on the right. And every time, there's a temptation to build the cl... See more
Here's a small decision in my starter kit that I keep getting asked about: POST /api/auth/register returns a 201 with both the user object and an auth token. Not just "user created, now go log in." The user is authenticated the moment they register. Why? ... See more
