The price is expensive, but not eye-wateringly so. The non-preorder price gets closer to eye-watering territory, but it’s still in the range of things I’d buy if I was confident they’d save me quite a bit of time.<p>Your site does not inspire that confidence so far. Here are some things that leave me disinclined to purchase your book even though I consider the price reasonable and am interested in the topic:<p>1. I don’t know who you or your co-author are, and I don’t know of any SaaS you’ve built that I’ve used or contemplated using. Have I used something you’ve made? If so, tell me!<p>2. Show me an example of the SaaS that the book teaches me to build. If I could experience what result I might produce, it’s easier to spend the money to learn how.<p>3. In light of points (1) and (2) not being satisfied, your terms of purchase are really scary. I can’t download a copy of the book to keep? You can revoke my access at any time? No refunds? I know I can reliably get my credit card company to issue a chargeback within a month or two if something’s not as promised, but I tend to read this kind of content more slowly than that. I want to make sure that I can continue to have it as I make my way through it at my own pace.<p>I hope none of that sounds like hostile feedback. It’s not... I’m someone who’s actively looking for this kind of resource. The price itself isn’t a problem, except that I can’t see what I’m getting, I don’t know your work well enough to know I’ll find this work useful, and you say you won’t offer a refund if I don’t find it useful. Plus you say you might revoke my online access and refuse to offer offline access.
I would not consider this project a proper SaaS boilerplate. It is a Web application boilerplate and maybe a good one, but not SaaS.<p><i>SaaS implies multi-tenancy</i> and your project does not seem to offer support for that.<p>Irrespective to that, your book's regular price IMO is too high - similar books/tutorials/courses (targeting various stacks) can be found for as low as $59.
You guys use stripe for payments in the book but what about taxes? I feel a good addition to your book would be to mention Paddle as they operate as a merchant of record so taxes are accounted for.
I was prepared to buy this and then I sorta stumbled across the Builder Book<p>They look very similar? But they're different? According to the docs this one is more focused on advanced patterns? Does a person need to buy the first to get value from the second?<p>Very confusing UX IMO
I can't see the two links above "Boilerplate", "Reviews" and "Log in" except for a few pixels so I know there's some content hidden at the top. My browser is about 1/2 the width of a 1080p desktop.
The responsive design is not encouraging. The page does not shrink to the size of my screen, text is overlapping and it generally looks slapped together without a concrete methodology. For two hundred dollars I don’t even get to own the book? Yikes.
Would you consider doing an addendum that uses PostgreSQL instead of MongoDB?<p>I've been looking for something exactly like your book, but I need to use a SQL database.
Do we go to 25k LOC of our own code or including libs?<p>If the first, I guess my side-projects were too small if they need 25k LOC just for the boilerplate.