Launch your SaaS in a weekend

Shipping fast isn't about cutting corners - it's about not rebuilding the same plumbing for the hundredth time. Here's a realistic weekend plan.

Saturday morning - set up

Clone the boilerplate, run bin/setup, and fill your credentials. Authentication, the admin back-office and the JSON API already work. You haven't written a line of glue code yet.

bin/setup
bin/rails credentials:edit
bin/dev

Saturday afternoon - your core feature

Build the one thing your product does. Reach for the conventions: a thin controller, a service object for the logic, a mobile-first view. Scope everything to Current.user.

The fastest feature is the one you don't have to secure, test and document from scratch - the patterns are already there to copy.

Sunday - money & polish

Wire your Stripe prices, edit the pricing table (it's just YAML), and pick a landing template. Add your domain's SPF/DKIM records so your emails reach the inbox.

By Sunday night you have auth, payments, onboarding, a marketing page and a deploy. That's a launchable product - now go talk to users.