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Shipfast

Shipfast is an open-source SaaS starter application for building AI-focused web services, combining a React frontend, a Python/Django backend, account and subscription management, a Contentful CMS, and a simple OpenAI integration.

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Practical overview

When it fits

Use Shipfast when you want a modifiable web application foundation for an AI SaaS and can work with its React and Python/Django stack. Its README documents local development and AWS CDK deployment configuration.

Who it is for

  • Developers building a SaaS product around generative AI or LLM services.
  • Teams wanting a web application foundation that includes user accounts, subscription management, and a CMS.

Documented uses

  • Start a SaaS web application with account and user-profile management.
  • Add Stripe subscription management and Contentful CMS capabilities to an application foundation.
  • Use the included keyword-based business idea generator and simple OpenAI integration as a basis for an AI service.
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Requirements & limits

The public GitHub repository is identified as MIT-licensed.

  • The frontend uses React and GraphQL; the backend uses Python and Django.
  • AWS CDK is provided for AWS deployment configuration, while Docker Compose is documented for local development.
  • The README identifies the project as a work in progress and lists document chat, an AI writing assistant, and image generation as incomplete roadmap items.

Check current requirements in the official documentation. Source-based guidance does not mean OpenViST has run or independently tested this project.

Source-based practical guide

Install dependencies and start Shipfast locally

Install the pnpm workspace dependencies and start the backend and web application together.

Before you start

  • A local copy of the Shipfast repository
  • pnpm

Steps

  1. Run pnpm install from the repository to install dependencies for the workspace packages.

  2. Run pnpm shipfast up to start both the backend and web application.

Expected outcome

The documented commands install workspace dependencies and start the backend and web application.

Guide limitations

  • The README does not specify further environment setup or configuration requirements.
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