Six Go SaaS boilerplates compared: features, licences, and trade-offs
A 2025 roundup evaluates six Go-based SaaS boilerplates — goilerplate, Pagoda, LastSaaS, SaaS Boost Kit, Go SaaS Startup Kit, go-saas/kit, and GoVueKit — against criteria including multi-tenancy, billing integration, transactional email, and an admin interface. The guide draws a clear distinction between a true SaaS boilerplate and a basic web starter, arguing that only kits offering organisations, role-based access control, and webhook-driven billing qualify. Frontend approach emerges as the primary decision factor, with some kits favouring server-rendered HTMX while others ship full JavaScript SPAs using React or Vue 3. Licence terms also vary significantly, ranging from permissive MIT to commercial one-time purchase models. The article was authored by the team behind GoVueKit and originally published on the GoVueKit website, representing a partial conflict of interest readers should note.
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