I have a working API, but I can’t do frontend and I’m scared of implementing all of that myself. It feels like a very common problem, but I couldn’t find anything.
writen by Matthias Endler
hey Matthias Endler to be clear, you need a frontend for your already made backend?
writen by WBE User
like a react app that already has everything wired up so u can just add the endpoints to your BE?
writen by WBE User
exactly
writen by Matthias Endler
doesn’t look like there are a lot of options.
writen by Matthias Endler
you don’t need a frontend, right? you need just a landing page as the API is for other developers!?
writen by Wolfgang Gassler
so the service you are looking for solves this scenario? • I am a indie hacker and created a cool API for other devs or no code devs • I want to sell the access to the API • I need a landing page and a service to handle subscriptions for my developed API • the landing page, subscription (keys for API) handling should be done by the service
writen by Wolfgang Gassler
Precisely that
writen by Matthias Endler
you showed me a catalog of apis once, what was the name?
writen by Wolfgang Gassler
So you only need the frontend parts (i.e. for signups etc)?
writen by Benedikt
If you need the auth and db handled as well https://supabase.com/|https://supabase.com/ might be an option. Or https://firebase.google.com/|https://firebase.google.com/. Billing would be missing, though.
writen by Benedikt
I’m working on sth. like it right now but my time is limited so it will take quite a while until usable
writen by Benedikt
For UI there’s https://saas-ui.dev/ And then there was https://old.saasify.sh/ which seems to be what you were searching for… But it seems to be (partly) OSS by now: https://github.com/saasify-sh/saasify. Also quite interesting the story that lead to shutdown: https://transitivebullsh.it/11df7c7d573146518635ce904746f858
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Also I found in the past: https://devdojo.com/wave, https://saasbox.net/, https://bedrock.mxstbr.com/
writen by Benedikt
Very nice links. Thanks Benedikt!
writen by Matthias Endler
• Supabase looks nice. I tried it in the past, but it generates an API from a DB scheme and I already have an API. • Firebase is too limited. It’s mostly for frontend people that need a way to store data no? • Saas UI dev doesn’t have billing and the UI that I need will be quite simple to begin with. • Saasify would have been pretty close, yeah. The blog post is quite honest and sobering. • I tried Wave once but I couldn’t set it up with my own DB. Their docs weren’t working for me. Didn’t want to fully commit to them early on so I ditched them. They would have been very close to what I wanted. Maybe has to be a bit more opinionated and leave me less things to wire up myself. • The SaasBox landing page looks amazing. I’ll look into that.
writen by Matthias Endler