Ship your tool-station in minutes
Skip auth, payments, i18n, docs, mail. Drop in your AI feature and launch the same day. Pay once, never charged again.
Built on the tools you already love
Everything you need on day one
Auth, payments, content, email, theming — handled. AI primitives land in v0.2.
Better Auth
Email + password and social login (Google, GitHub) with verification, sessions, and admin role out of the box.
Stripe payments
Subscriptions, one-time payments, and credit packs with idempotent webhooks and a customer portal.
i18n built in
next-intl with English and Chinese pre-wired. JSON-driven, locale-aware routing — your global launch is one config away.
Transactional email
Resend + React Email templates for verification, reset, and welcome. Your inbox-zero is our default.
AI-ready (v0.2)
Provider abstraction landing in Phase 2 — OpenRouter, Replicate, FAL with cost observability and prompt versioning.
Cost observability
Token-level tracking with admin dashboard for per-model gross-margin (v0.2+). Know your AI costs, not guess.
shadcn/ui + Tailwind v4
Modern UI primitives, dark mode, ready to extend with marketing blocks. Your app looks shipped on day one.
Sane defaults
Type-safe env vars, server-only modules, idempotent webhooks, admin role gating, GDPR-friendly schema.
What you can build with vibestrap
Drop in your AI logic. The 80% that's the same across every AI startup is already done.
AI text tools
Writing assistants, summarizers, translators, SEO copy generators, email writers — all the LLM-wrapping classics.
e.g. Jenni AI, Copy.ai, Rytr
AI image / video tools
Avatar generators, headshot apps, image enhancers, video subtitlers — anything that wraps Replicate, FAL, or fal-style providers.
e.g. HeadshotPro, Magnific, Pika
Document & data tools
PDF Q&A, contract analysis, resume parsers, RAG over private docs — upload-and-process workflows.
e.g. ChatPDF, AskDocs, Humata
What you get in vibestrap that other scaffolds skip
We respect ShipAny and MkSaaS — they got us 80% of the way. Here's the 20% they don't ship.
| Feature | Most AI scaffolds | vibestrap |
|---|---|---|
| Auth + Stripe + i18n + mail | ||
| AI provider abstraction | Bolt-on, schema-light | First-class with cost meta (v0.2) |
| Token-level cost observability | Built-in dashboard (v0.2) | |
| Prompt registry & versioning | DB-backed, A/B-ready (v0.2) | |
| Pay once, no upgrade fees | 1 year, then upgrade fee | No further charges, ever |
| Full source you own | ||
| One-time payment | Sometimes | Always — no subs |
60-second quickstart
Clone, install, push schema, dev. Done.
$pnpm dlx degit your-org/vibestrap my-app$cd my-app && pnpm install$cp .env.example .env.local # add DATABASE_URL + BETTER_AUTH_SECRET$pnpm db:push$pnpm dev
One price. Yours forever.
No subscription. No pro tier. Pay once, never charged again — every update we ship is yours for free.
$1 a day for under 7 weeks — yours for life.
- Lifetime access — yours forever
- Pay once. Every update we ship is free for you — no upgrade fees, ever
- Unlimited personal projects
- Use in client projects (Team-equivalent)
- Commercial use — keep 100% of your revenue
- Private Discord community
- Email support
- Full source code, modify anything
Goes back to $99 once we hit our launch goal. No tricks — a real launch deal.
One-time payment. No upgrade fees, ever. All sales final.
Frequently asked
Want more detail? Read the docs or ping us on Discord.
- Which AI capabilities ship today?
- Six providers behind one interface — mock (offline, the default), OpenRouter, OpenAI, Anthropic, Replicate, fal.ai — switchable via one env var. Every call goes through AIManager: cost guard (refuses on insufficient credits), pre-charge + refund-on-error, optional fallback, opt-in cache. Tokens, cost (in micro-cents), TTFT and total latency land in the ai_call table, with a 30-day admin dashboard at /admin/cost. Plus: prompt registry with versioning, 5 React hooks (useGeneration / useTask / useCredits / usePrompt / useHistory), 19 AI-native UI primitives, and three working demos (chat / image / document).
- Is $49 a launch promo or the real price?
- Launch promo. The standard price is $99. We're running $49 (about $1 a day for under 7 weeks) until the launch goal hits — no tricks, no fake countdowns. Once we end the promo, your purchase is still locked at $49 forever.
- What does “every future update is free” actually mean?
- Two written promises: (1) you will never be charged again — no upgrade fee at v2.x, no “pro tier” paywall, no subscription, ever. (2) Every release — bug fix, minor, major version, forever — is automatically yours at no extra cost.
- Can I use vibestrap for client projects?
- Yes. Every paid tier covers commercial use — including building products for paying customers and white-labeled client projects. The only thing not allowed is reselling vibestrap itself as a template/boilerplate.
- Refund policy?
- All sales are final. Because vibestrap is a digital download — once you have the source you have the source — we don't issue refunds. Try the live demos at /demos before you buy, read the docs, ping us on Discord with any pre-purchase questions.
- What's the tech stack?
- Next.js 15, React 19, TypeScript, Tailwind v4, shadcn/ui, Drizzle ORM, Postgres, Better Auth, Stripe, Resend, next-intl, Fumadocs, Biome. Modern, opinionated, no random framework-of-the-month choices.
- How do I get help?
- Join our Discord — every customer gets in. We respond to email at [email protected] within 1 business day. Major bugs we'll patch in days, not weeks.
Build notes — once a fortnight, no spam
AI patterns we're shipping, indie post-mortems, and a heads-up before each new vibestrap release.
Stop reinventing the SaaS plumbing.
Auth, payments, i18n, mail — solved. Spend your week on the AI feature that wins.