Ship your app this weekend, not next quarter
Already built, tested and pen-tested. You only write the code that makes you money. Clone it tonight, charge your first customer this weekend.
- 812
- Specs, all green
- 14
- Built-in modules
- 23
- Pages of docs
- 0
- Redis required
What goes into a production-ready app?
You could absolutely build every piece yourself. Here's the time it honestly takes:
- 6 hrs wiring auth, sessions and OAuth
- + 15 hrs Stripe billing: checkout, webhooks, billing portal
- + 15 hrs building an admin back-office worth using
- + 8 hrs wiring AI: streaming, widgets, quotas
- + 7 hrs onboarding, emails & real-time notifications
- + 8 hrs support inbox, SEO & a JWT JSON API
- + 2 hrs setting up CI, linters and security scans
- + ∞ hrs making it all fit together, cleanly enough to build on
= 60+ hours of groundwork before your first feature
LaunchKit hands you those hours back ↓
Everything a modern Rails app needs
Stop wiring the same plumbing on every project. It's already here - built, tested and documented.
Authentication
Email/password on Rails 8 native sessions, email confirmation and password complexity rules.
✓ Time saved: 6 hours
Social sign-in
One-tap sign-in with Google, GitHub, Apple and 7 more OAuth providers - each toggleable from the admin.
✓ Time saved: 3 hours
Stripe billing
Checkout, subscriptions, one-time payments, coupons and signature-verified webhooks - plus billing portal, card updates, plan switching and subscription cancellation.
✓ Time saved: 5 hours
Billing portal
Self-serve billing management: customers update cards, download invoices and cancel on their own.
✓ Time saved: 2 hours
Feature flipping
Switch AI, referrals, blog or sign-up on and off from the admin - no deploy needed.
✓ Time saved: 2 hours
Admin console
A back-office for users, subscriptions, transactions, pricing, appearance and more.
✓ Time saved: 4 hours
AI layer
Streamed LLM completions, embeddable widgets and per-user usage quotas, ready to plug in.
✓ Time saved: 6 hours
Referrals
Double-sided referral program with automatic Stripe account credit for both sides.
✓ Time saved: 4 hours
SEO
Meta tags, Open Graph, sitemap and an Atom feed wired on every public page.
✓ Time saved: 2 hours
Real-time notifications
In-app notifications delivered in real time over Turbo Streams.
✓ Time saved: 2 hours
Onboarding
A multistep flow with a dynamic step referential you can extend in one line.
✓ Time saved: 3 hours
Support inbox
A public contact form feeding an admin inbox - customer support without a helpdesk bill.
✓ Time saved: 3 hours
Blog
A Markdown blog with an Atom feed to start content marketing on day one.
✓ Time saved: 4 hours
JSON API
A stateless JWT API with example endpoints to inspire your own.
✓ Time saved: 2 hours
The code in 3 minutes
bin/setup, the full test suite going green, a Stripe checkout - filmed end to end. No cuts, no magic.
3-minute walkthrough - click to play
Up and running in minutes
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Clone & set up
Run bin/setup, point it at PostgreSQL, and the app boots - no Node, no Redis.
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Add your keys
Drop your Stripe and Google keys into Rails credentials. One encrypted place.
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Build your product
Auth, billing, admin and onboarding are done. Ship your first feature today.
Hey, it's Mehdi
I've spent 10+ years writing Ruby and Rails, publishing about the language and shipping production apps for companies and for myself.
Every single project started the same way: rebuild auth, re-listen to Stripe webhooks, re-do the admin, re-write the onboarding. Weeks of plumbing before a single line of product code.
So I built LaunchKit for 3 reasons:
- 1 Save the 60+ hours of setup on every new idea
- 2 Avoid the classic traps - webhooks you can't trust, auth edge cases, emails in spam
- 3 Ship fast enough to learn fast - the more you launch, the more you earn
Every line is tested (812 specs), scanned (Brakeman, bundler-audit) and pen-tested (OWASP ZAP). It's the codebase I wish someone had handed me years ago.
Proof, not promises
Every claim on this page is verifiable in the codebase you download. Here's what the tooling says:
812 examples, 0 failures
The full RSpec suite runs green - models, requests, system specs. You inherit the safety net.
OWASP ZAP: 0 findings
A baseline penetration scan of the running app comes back clean. Headers, cookies, CSP - handled.
0 CVE, 0 warnings
Brakeman static analysis, bundler-audit dependency scan and RuboCop all pass on every commit.
Get those 60 hours back, on every project
Download the full source in 2 minutes and start on the code only you can write.
Founder's launch · only 9 of the first 100 seats left
Builders, shipping sooner
“I shipped my MVP in a weekend instead of a month. Auth and billing just worked out of the box.”
“The code reads like a tutorial. Onboarding two engineers took an afternoon, not a sprint.”
“Finally a boilerplate I can actually maintain - tests, docs and conventions are all there.”
What that $129 replaces
The same 60+ hours you saw above, itemized line by line:
- Wiring auth, sessions and OAuth ~6 h
- Stripe checkout, subscriptions, one-time payments & coupons ~6 h
- Signature-verified Stripe webhooks, handled properly ~5 h
- Billing portal: card updates, plan switching, cancellation ~4 h
- An admin console of this quality - users, pricing editor, feature flags, appearance ~15 h
- AI integration with the AI-widget generator in the admin ~8 h
- Real-time notifications over websockets ~2 h
- Designing an onboarding flow ~3 h
- Transactional emails & confirmations ~2 h
- Customer support: contact form + admin inbox ~3 h
- SEO: meta tags, Open Graph, sitemap, Atom feed ~2 h
- JSON API skeleton with JWT auth ~3 h
- CI, linters and security scans ~2 h
- Making it all extensible - the conventions, generators, tests and docs your next 10 features depend on ∞ h
= 60+ hours of plumbing, plus an extensible foundation you'd never find time to build — one payment of $129, yours forever.
Simple, transparent pricing
Founder's launch · only 9 of the first 100 seats left
LaunchKit
Founder's launch price. Only 9 of the first 100 seats left at $129 - one payment, yours forever (updates included).
$129 one-time
- ▪Auth & social sign-in - 10 OAuth providers
- ▪Stripe billing & self-serve billing portal
- ▪Admin console & feature flipping
- ▪AI layer, referrals & SEO
- ▪Real-time notifications & onboarding
- ▪Support inbox, blog & JSON API
- ▪Pen-tested with OWASP ZAP - 0 findings
Pay once. Build unlimited projects.
“I shipped my MVP in a weekend instead of a month. Auth and billing just worked out of the box.”
Jordan Diaz · Solopreneur
Frequently asked questions
What's the stack? +
Rails 8, Hotwire (Turbo + Stimulus), TailwindCSS, PostgreSQL and the solid_* adapters - no Node build step and no Redis.
Do I own the code? +
Yes. It's a boilerplate you clone and make your own - there's no runtime dependency on us. Pay once, build unlimited projects.
Is it really tested? +
812 RSpec examples run green, plus RuboCop, Brakeman and bundler-audit on every commit and in CI. The app is also pen-tested with OWASP ZAP (0 findings). You can re-run all of it yourself right after cloning.
How is this different from ShipFast and other Next.js boilerplates? +
Same promise - ship fast - different foundation. LaunchKit is Rails 8 + Hotwire: one language end to end, no Node build, no Redis, server-rendered by default. And unlike most boilerplates, the quality is measurable: 812 specs, 0 CVE, 0 pen-test findings, all verifiable in the code you download.
Why not just use an AI tool like Lovable or Bolt? +
Those are great for landing pages, but a business needs billing you can trust, auth without edge-case holes, and an admin. LaunchKit gives you a battle-tested foundation - and it makes your AI editor better, not obsolete: a complete, conventional codebase is the best context Cursor or Claude Code can get. Ask for a feature and the AI follows the existing structure, naming and tests.
Does it work with AI editors (Cursor, Claude Code, Copilot)? +
It's built for them. Conventional Rails structure, consistent naming, a full test suite to validate generated code, and code generators (feature, service, webhook handler, admin resource) that give your AI a template to imitate.
My stack is slightly different - can I still use it? +
If you're comfortable with Rails, yes. Modules are independent: swap Kamal for Heroku, Google OAuth for any of the 10 wired providers, or drop what you don't need. PostgreSQL is the only hard assumption.
Can I get a refund? +
Once you've downloaded the source it's yours forever, so it can't be refunded. That's exactly why this page shows real, verifiable numbers instead of promises - clone it, run bin/setup and the test suite, and judge the code in your first hour.
How do I deploy? Any hidden costs? +
Kamal (your own server, from ~$5/mo) or Heroku - both documented step by step in the in-app guides. No Redis and no Node means one less service to pay for and babysit. Stripe only charges when you make money.
9 seats left at the founder's price
Everything above is already built, tested and pen-tested. Pay once, download the full source, and ship your app this weekend.
LaunchKit — $129 · one-time
Pay once. Build unlimited projects.