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Show HN: Divjoy 2.0 – Build a SaaS app in minutes

by makeee on 1/18/21, 8:55 PM with 24 comments

  • by makeee on 1/18/21, 8:55 PM

    Hey HN, Divjoy is a tool that allows you to generate a fully-functioning SaaS app. You get a React UI, auth, database, stripe payments, billing, and so on.

    What makes it different from your average boilerplate is that you can customize your tech stack and UI before exporting your code. For example you can choose between Material UI, Bootstrap, or Bulma for your UI. Firebase or Auth0 for auth, and so on down the stack.

    It then runs your app in our built-in editor where you can play with styles and drop in new components from the Divjoy library. The idea is to give you that "Aha! I'm building something and it works!" moment right away. That's a better experience than spending your first few hours sifting through docs.

    You can try all this out without signing up or paying. Just head to the site, pick some options, then a template.

    PS. You may remember my original Show HN from over a year ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20688044). The 2.0 version takes that concept and expands it from mostly static sites to full SaaS apps.

  • by mikeveilleux on 1/19/21, 12:36 AM

    Awesome to see this pull together a lot of the core elements that are fall into the "other stuff" needed when launching a SaaS startup.

    I think a lot of developers have prototypes or code that can bring value to customers but packaging the business functions around it slows them down if it doesn't scare them off altogether. This is a great step toward helping that.

    Do you have any thoughts on how this might eventually integrate with some sort of functions as a service?

    Also, any plans to support AWS cognito/dynamo/s3?

  • by nilkanthjp on 1/18/21, 9:05 PM

    Nice. do you have plans to abstract the db layer further for non firebase + relational stores? Specifically like a tighter integration for postgres maybe?

  • by CoffeePython on 1/18/21, 9:19 PM

    This looks awesome Gabe. Is there somewhere we can see a roadmap of future improvements/features?

    I'm currently building things with React, tailwind, FastAPI, and hosting on Render.

    I'm thinking of buying it just to explore and use the codebase as an example of what best practices to use. (Seeing as the CTO of Stripe even mentioned the code quality on your testimonials haha)

  • by purple-again on 1/19/21, 1:17 AM

    I remember DivJoy 1.0 and wow you have come a long way! Looking forward to seeing where this project ends up in a few years. A couple of questions/comments:

    1) postgres is critical but I saw in another comment you were already on that

    2) where are the big boys under hosting? I had an imposter syndrome moment when I clicked on that drop down because I didn’t recognize a single name on it...I’ve been at this for almost 20 years now. AWS, Azure, DigitalOcean, and Heroku were some of the things I would have expected.

    3) anyway to see a sample code base without paying? I’m not sure how that would work as I don’t know how you can do it without also enabling people to take your work without paying but it’s a non starter for me. I’m probably not your target audience though so take this request with a grain of salt.

    Congrats on shipping and best of luck with the product!

    Edit: I went back and noticed to hosting options are all serverless so not surprising a crusty old Rails guys wouldn’t recognize them.

  • by newsbinator on 1/19/21, 2:09 PM

    This is cool! I'd love to see something like this for Vue (and ideally Vuetify in addition to Tailwind/Bulma).

  • by jeremynevans on 1/19/21, 10:02 AM

    Awesome work with the speed you're moving. Big fan + user - love Divjoy and where it's headed!

  • by mizz_leopold on 1/18/21, 11:40 PM

    All my projects use TypeScript. really cool, but dead in the water (for me). sucks as I really want to use it, but if this project saves me 2 months of work, type script saves me 12 months of sanity (signed, someone that really appreciates type safety). Id pay extra.

  • by damechen on 1/18/21, 9:15 PM

    Any plan to support other css styling, like tailwindcss?