SaaSrockvsShipFast

SaaSrock (free, open source Remix) and ShipFast ($149, Next.js) are both popular SaaS starters, but they're designed for different audiences with different needs. ShipFast is optimized for speed — a solo founder or indie hacker who wants auth, Stripe, a landing page, and email wired up in an afternoon. SaaSrock is optimized for completeness — a developer building a production B2B SaaS who needs multi-tenancy, RBAC, an admin panel, REST API, webhooks, and internationalization from the start.

The most important difference is multi-tenancy. ShipFast has no multi-tenancy — it's a single-user product where each account is independent. SaaSrock's entire data model is built around multi-tenancy: workspaces are first-class objects, every resource belongs to a workspace, and role-based access control (with custom roles and granular permissions) governs what each workspace member can do. For B2B SaaS products — tools sold to businesses where multiple employees use the same account — SaaSrock's built-in multi-tenancy saves 4-8 weeks of development time compared to retrofitting it into a ShipFast codebase.

The REST API and webhooks in SaaSrock are also significant for enterprise products. SaaSrock ships with a versioned REST API covering all major entities, API key management for programmatic access, and webhook support for external integrations. ShipFast leaves API development entirely to you. If your SaaS needs to integrate with customers' existing tooling — a common B2B requirement — starting with SaaSrock's pre-built API foundation is a real advantage.

The framework and community tradeoffs are real. ShipFast's Next.js codebase is familiar to most React developers, and Marc Lou's large indie hacker community means tutorials, YouTube videos, and community help are readily available. SaaSrock uses Remix, which has a smaller (but growing) community and requires some reorientation for Next.js developers — loader/action data flow rather than server components and API routes. Alexandro Martinez, SaaSrock's creator, actively maintains the project and responds to GitHub issues, but the community resources don't match ShipFast's volume.

Choose SaaSrock if you're building a B2B SaaS product that needs multi-tenancy, RBAC, an admin panel, REST API, and webhooks — these features are included free, and building them from scratch on any other starter costs weeks of development time. Choose ShipFast if you're building a simpler single-user or single-tenant product, value the large indie hacker community and tutorials, and want the fastest possible Next.js setup to validate your idea before investing in enterprise features.