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About Sushi SaaS — What It Is and Why It’s Reliable
Oct 02, 2025
A production‑ready, MIT‑licensed SaaS starter focused on shipping real products: i18n, Better Auth, Drizzle ORM, Stripe billing, MDX docs, RBAC admin, and practical DX. Built to be cloned, extended, and trusted.
Quick Start
Sep 29, 2025
Get the Sushi SaaS template running locally with pnpm, explore i18n routes, health checks, and MDX blogs, and learn where to configure auth, billing, and docs.
Database Setup
Sep 29, 2025
Configure Postgres and Drizzle ORM — the backbone for auth, billing, storage, tasks, and app tables.
Admin Roles & Authorization
Sep 29, 2025
Configure read-only and read/write admin roles, protect admin APIs, and understand the authentication pipeline used by this template.
Stripe Setup
Sep 29, 2025
Use Stripe Checkout for payments and finalize via webhooks to grant credits. Configure environment variables, create sessions, handle callbacks, and process signed webhook events.
Notifications - Slack Alerts
Oct 11, 2025
Set up simple Slack notifications for uploads and payments, wire them into Stripe webhooks and storage errors, and customize alerts with a tiny server helper.
Private File Uploads (S3 / R2)
Oct 07, 2025
A step‑by‑step, beginner‑friendly guide to adding user‑private uploads with S3‑compatible storage. Includes concepts, setup, env, API, UI, errors, and S3↔R2 migration.
Logging & Observability
Oct 11, 2025
Structured logging for Node, Edge and Workers with request IDs, redaction and per-route examples. Works on Vercel, Cloudflare and Node servers.
Email Service (Resend)
Sep 29, 2025
Integrate transactional email with Resend. Verify your domain, create API keys, render welcome and payment emails on the server, and send through Resend with environment-based configuration.
Accounts, Orders & Credits
Sep 29, 2025
Understand how users, orders, and the credits ledger work together in the Sushi SaaS template. Learn the balance formula, expiry handling, and the APIs/services to grant, consume, and inspect credits.
Credits-Based Tasks — Text to Video
Oct 11, 2025
Add usage-based monetization with a generic tasks table, a credit ledger, and a pluggable text-to-video generator. Learn the schema, APIs, config constants, and a minimal UI to ship paid AI features fast.
Reservations Feature — Availability, Deposits, Google Calendar
Sep 29, 2025
Enable a modular reservations feature with business-hours availability, Stripe Checkout deposits, webhook confirmation, ICS attachments, and Google Calendar links.
SaaS 101: What 'Software as a Service' Really Means
Oct 01, 2025
An introduction to the Software‑as‑a‑Service (SaaS) model — understanding what SaaS means, how it works, its key benefits, and why it's become a dominant way to deliver software in the cloud era.
What Is Next.js? The Beginner’s Guide
Oct 07, 2025
Why Next.js suits SaaS: routing, SSR/SSG, and API routes in one repo — a beginner-friendly, full-length guide.
What Is Middleware? A Beginner-Friendly Guide
Oct 13, 2025
Understand middleware from first principles, why SaaS apps use it, and how our Next.js middleware works with i18n and request IDs — plus how to customize it.
Frontend vs Backend vs Full‑Stack for SaaS Beginners
Oct 07, 2025
A beginner-friendly guide to understanding frontend, backend, and full‑stack development in the context of SaaS, with a relatable analogy and examples from a modern web stack.
Databases for SaaS: Postgres + Drizzle in Beginner Terms
Oct 07, 2025
Beginner-friendly guide to PostgreSQL and Drizzle ORM for SaaS: tables, rows, relationships, why Postgres, typed schema in TypeScript, querying, indexes, data safety, migrations, and local vs production.
SaaS Budget Guide — Costs, Hosting, and What Matters
Oct 02, 2025
Practical guide to the real costs of starting a SaaS: hosting, database, payments, email, and where money actually goes. Start free, validate early, and pay only when you grow.
Web Authentication Deep Dive: JWTs, Sessions, and Remember Me
Nov 22, 2025
A practical, end-to-end guide to how web auth really works: signup, login, access vs refresh tokens, session IDs vs remember-me tokens, lazy refresh, logout, and how to choose between JWT-based and server-side sessions.
Social Sign-In: Google (and Friends) End-to-End OAuth/OpenID Walkthrough
Nov 22, 2025
A packet-level walkthrough of Google (and other OAuth/OIDC) sign-in: redirects, backend callbacks, code-for-token exchange, token verification, user linking, issuing your own session/JWT, and how the same pattern applies to Apple, Facebook, GitHub, etc.
Anatomy of a Modern SaaS
Oct 07, 2025
A practical blueprint of modern SaaS architecture: customer lifecycle, authentication, billing, data, docs/SEO, admin/RBAC, i18n, emails, analytics, and how the pieces integrate.
Why Use a SaaS Template (and When You Shouldn’t)
Oct 07, 2025
How SaaS boilerplates save months of work, when building from scratch is better, and how to avoid ‘framework prison’ lock‑in myths.
Why Sushi Templates Beats Minimal Starters for Real SaaS Projects
Oct 08, 2025
An analytical comparison of Sushi Templates vs. minimal starters (Vercel’s Next.js SaaS Starter, ShipFast, create‑t3‑app) focused on real‑world SaaS needs, trade‑offs, and time‑to‑launch.
Comparison of Full-Stack SaaS Boilerplates vs Sushi Templates
Oct 08, 2025
A deep dive comparing leading open-source Next.js SaaS starters with Sushi Templates across features, design, openness, maintenance, responsiveness, and docs.
Legal & Compliance at Launch: A Plain‑English Guide
Oct 07, 2025
A founder’s plain-English checklist for Privacy Policy, Terms of Service, email compliance (GDPR/CAN‑SPAM), taxes/invoices, data requests, and DPAs at launch.
Affiliates & Referrals for Beginners
Oct 07, 2025
Set up invite links, 30‑day cookies, attribution at signup, reward models, and anti‑abuse basics for a beginner‑friendly SaaS affiliate/referral program.
Invite, Affiliates & Rewards
Sep 29, 2025
Set up invite links, attribution, and configurable affiliate rewards (fixed and/or percent). Learn how cookies capture referrals, how attribution is finalized after login, and how rewards are computed on paid orders.
Google for SaaS — Why it matters and how to use it
Sep 30, 2025
A beginner-friendly guide to using Google’s ecosystem (Search Console, GA4, Business Profile, Merchant Center, Trends) to get discovered, measure behavior, and grow a SaaS in 2025.