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Building a Convex-first SaaS
Architecture, what belongs in a real starter, and how AI-assisted coding changes where you should begin.
- ai, developer-experience, typescript
AI-assisted coding changes the starter kit you should begin with
Coding agents are productive in proportion to the context they are given. A typed, well-bounded monorepo with written instructions is the real AI feature.
- saas, boilerplate, checklist
What a real SaaS boilerplate should include before you write product code
A login form, a checkout button, and a dashboard shell is not a SaaS foundation. Here is the workflow-level checklist that separates a starter from a demo.
- convex, architecture, real-time
Why a SaaS starter built on Convex feels different from another CRUD-first stack
A Convex-first foundation removes the seam between your database, your API, and your real-time layer — and that changes what the first weeks of a build look like.