# ShipKit — Production-Ready SaaS Boilerplate

> ShipKit is a full-stack monorepo boilerplate for building SaaS applications with Next.js 16, Elysia.js, Bun, and TypeScript. It includes authentication, payments, admin panel, i18n, SEO, and dark mode — all pre-configured. 12 apps have shipped on this codebase; 5 are written up in depth at https://shipkit.davrapps.dev/en/showcase. $149 one-time.

## What ShipKit Includes
- **7 apps**: web (public frontend), api (Elysia.js REST), admin (protected panel), docs, worker, mcp, e2e
- **18 packages**: auth, db, cache, ui, email, entities, storage, jobs, logger, analytics, ai, entitlements, feature-flags, content, env, cli, and shared configs
- **68 UI components** and fourteen production subsystems, pre-wired
- **Interactive CLI**: Run `bun run cli` for full setup in ~30 seconds
- **Authentication**: Better Auth (self-hosted, $0/month, unlimited users)
- **Payments**: Polar.sh integration (checkout, webhook, subscription tracking)
- **Admin Panel**: Separate app with RBAC, user management, sidebar layout
- **AI-Native**: CLAUDE.md + skills for Claude Code and Cursor

## Tech Stack
- Next.js 16 (App Router, Server Components)
- Elysia.js (Bun-native, end-to-end type safety via Eden)
- Bun (runtime + package manager + bundler)
- Drizzle ORM (type-safe SQL, zero overhead)
- Better Auth (self-hosted authentication)
- Polar.sh (payments and subscriptions)
- shadcn/ui + Tailwind CSS v4
- next-intl (3 languages pre-configured)
- Redis (caching, rate limiting, usage tracking)
- Turborepo (parallel builds with caching)

## Why ShipKit vs Alternatives
- ShipFast: $299-$349, no admin panel, no CLI, no AI skills
- ShipKit: $149 one-time, full admin panel, interactive CLI, production bug fixes documented
- Self-hosted auth (Better Auth) vs vendor lock-in (Clerk/Auth0)
- Real REST API (Elysia.js) vs Next.js API routes

## Pricing
- $149 one-time payment
- Full source code access via private GitHub repo
- Unlimited projects, commercial use
- Lifetime updates
- Full refund any time before repo access is granted

## Articles
- [Bun Owns the Speed, Elysia Owns the Memory: What We Learned Upgrading Every Layer at Once](https://shipkit.davrapps.dev/en/blog/bun-elysia-2-upgrade-what-each-layer-buys): We upgraded Bun, Elysia 2 beta, Next 16.3 and TS 7 on a live ecommerce+POS API and benchmarked each layer alone. The credit does not go where you'd guess.
- [ShipKit vs MakerKit (2026): the honest version](https://shipkit.davrapps.dev/en/blog/shipkit-vs-makerkit): MakerKit is $349 and ships organizations, passkeys and MFA today. ShipKit is $149 on a Bun stack with a standalone API and merchant-of-record payments. Which gap matters depends on what you're building.
- [Bun in 2026: Ship Your Greenfield SaaS, Skip the Migration](https://shipkit.davrapps.dev/en/blog/bun-saas-backend-2026): Bun is ready for a greenfield SaaS backend in 2026; skip migrating a working Node app. What the canary-only v1.4 Rust rewrite means for that call.
- [ShipKit vs the T3 Stack: what $149 buys over free](https://shipkit.davrapps.dev/en/blog/shipkit-vs-t3-stack): T3 Stack is free, MIT and has 29,064 stars. ShipKit is $149. They solve different problems — here is the exact list of what you would build yourself, and when free is the right answer.
- [ShipKit vs ShipFast: which one, and when the answer is ShipFast](https://shipkit.davrapps.dev/en/blog/shipkit-vs-shipfast): ShipFast is $199 and has sold to 8,380 makers. ShipKit is $149 and is new. A comparison written by the people who sell one of them, with every claim sourced.
- [Clerk vs Better Auth in 2026: The Honest Migration Math](https://shipkit.davrapps.dev/en/blog/clerk-to-better-auth-migration): Migrate off Clerk only when an operational trigger is live: 100K MRU costs ~$1,025/mo since the 2026 repricing; the move takes about two engineer-weeks.

## Links
- Website: https://shipkit.davrapps.dev
- Pricing: https://shipkit.davrapps.dev/en#pricing
- Blog: https://shipkit.davrapps.dev/en/blog
- GitHub: https://github.com/Dave93/shipkit (private, access on purchase)
- Made by DavrApps: https://davrapps.dev