André Casal

LaunchFast - One command to a full featured, secure, production-ready app

One command to a fully featured, secure, production-ready app with Remix, SQLite, shadcn/ui, auth, email, Stripe, OpenAI, Playwright, Sentry, analytics, and 30 more features than ShipFast.

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André Casal
Hey Product Hunt! 🎉 I'm André, the founder of LaunchFast 👋 Imagine being able to run one command and, a few minutes later, having a fully featured, secure, production-ready app online, with Remix, SQLite, shadcn/ui, auth, email, Stripe, OpenAI, Playwright, Sentry, analytics, and 23 other features ready for you to hit the ground running building you app. Zero distractions, zero time spent setting up infrastructure, integrating services or writing boilerplate code. Just run the CLI and start building! With clear, instructive documentation that not only explains how to get something done, but also explains, with simple language, the concepts envolved to make you a better developer. Here are some of the things you might enjoy having out of the box: - Interactive CLI that sets up deployment infrastructure for you in minutes - High-quality and complete UI set, with accessibility, keyboard navigation, design tokens, utility classes, primitive and composite components, and page sections and templates, so you don't have to stop building to create common UI components and patterns. - Offline development, enabled by mocking all 3rd-party services - Unit and e2e testing with Playwright and Vitest - Stellar developer experience with Hot Module Replacement, Hot Data Revalidation, linting, formatting, and type safety - Complete and built-in auth solution, avoiding having to annoyingly query user data from 3rd-party auth providers - All the 3rd-party services you need: transactional and marketing email, payments, AI, analytics, and monitoring - Tons of security features: OAuth (social logins), 2FA, TOTP, Passkeys, Honeypot (to avoid bots), rate limiting, Content Security Policy, and more. - In-memory and in-DB caching - Image optimization route and component - Generous free tiers from all 3rd-party services so you don't pay anything until you're ready to scale - A kind, supportive and ambitious community! - And a lot more... I hope you like LaunchFast ♥️ I'll be here all day to answer your burning questions, dive into discussions, explain or clarify concepts, or just chat about life and tech. Let's make the web better together 🙌 Give it a try here: https://launchfast.pro Cheers 🚀
André Casal
@jim_loining Thanks Jim 🙌🤗
Richard Song
This is a game changer, @theandrecasal! 🚀 One command to rule them all sounds like a dream for busy devs. Ready to upvote and try it out!
André Casal
@renchu_song Thank you so much Renchu! I look forward to hearing about what you build 💪😄
Hatem Soliman
Just got myself a copy of LaunchFast. Tinkered around with it for a bit and I gotta say it's a pretty solid tool. Looking forward to maximizing it's capabilities!
André Casal
@hatem_soliman Thanks Hatem, I appreciate you and your feedback ♥️
André Casal
@hatem_soliman Hatem, just saw your wizard-inspired website, so freaking cool: https://hatemsoliman.dev/ 😍
Hatem Soliman
@theandrecasal appreciate that, either 🐐💪😉⚒️
André Casal
@hatem_soliman Keep up the good work my man 🙌😄
Andre Ochoa
😲😲😲 It seems very complete and feature rich. Won't need anything else to launch my next apps fast. Great work. 👍
André Casal
@andochoa Thanks Andre, I appreciate your comment 🤗 For those of you who don't know Andre, he helps founders get to PMF 🔥 Check him out!
Joshua Zinkovsky
This boiler plate is something special and continues to impress me as I continue to work with it. As an experienced developer, I have spent weeks building out infrastructure for my applications. Researching best practices and getting overwhelmed with countless decisions. With LaunchFast, I was literally able to create a production-ready app with a staging environment in 10 minutes. What. The. Fudge. Where has something like this been? It's an absolute game changer and a lot of thought and polish has been put into this. Well done Andre. An absolutely beautiful product.
André Casal
@joshua_zinkovsky Wow, thank you so much for the great feedback Joshua, I appreciate you my man 🙌 I do love your products too, it's inspiring seeing a master at his craft 🙏
Negou Seid
This looks great, I haven't tried any of these boilerplates but I could see myself using this. The benefits are very well-defined and easy to see.
André Casal
@userinsite Thanks Negou, I appreciate your comment my man 🙌😄 Do you have something to build in the pipeline?
Negou Seid
@theandrecasal I just finished my project, this would have made it easier. I used nextjs without any boilerplates. I have some cooking ideas so I will keep your product in mind.
André Casal
@userinsite I think you'll have a great time. I remember when I started using boilerplates I was like "Where was this my whole life?!" It really boosts productivity tremendously. Looking forward to seeing what you build, keep in touch! 😄🙌
Alexandre Contador
Having the possibility of fast launch like this it’s insane! The fastest that it’s out there 🚀
André Casal
@alexdigitalmkt Hehehe thanks Alexandre, the Digital Marketing boss 🫡 😄❤️
Miguel 🚀
why would anyone start a SaaS from scratch from now on?
André Casal
@fullstackmiguel Hehehe good point 🤔😂
Victor Chukwuma
Sweet product. Ride on Andre!!
André Casal
@vikxx Thank you so much, Victor 🙏 Appreciate it!
Roman Tikhonov
🔌 Plugged in
I've been looking at different boilerplates and haven't seen anything like this! The feature set is truly mind-blowing. It saves weeks of coding with setting up things like social login, emails, stipe, and other boring stuff. And integrating a design system was a great idea because it's something that take way too much time to set up. Congrats on building and launching a wonderful product! 🎉
André Casal
@rtikhonov Thank you so much Roman, I am also looking forward to your launch of Review Lab, a service where people like me can get feedback on their landing pages is invaluable 🙏 Keep up the great work!
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André Casal
@zulkarnaim Thank you so much Zulkar! I appreciate your words, my friend, let's build cool stuff!
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Mitia
It looks really promising @theandrecasal We’ll give it a try and share our feedback with you. Good luck today with your launch!
André Casal
@mitia Thanks Mitia! I'm excited to see what you guys build with it 💪 Please do share 😄
Kyle
The best boilerplate I’ve seen!
André Casal
@kail Thank you, Kyle, I appreciate your words my man 🙌😄
Naman
Hey everyone, I just want to say one thing about the launchfast. You will love this thing if you spend a few days with it and it is the thing that you gonna share with other devs as well cuz it will save a lot of time in setting up the things.
André Casal
@naman9761 Thanks Naman, I appreciate your support and your feedback on the product! Let's launch fast 🚀😄
Zé Casal
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Woohoo! I am SO EXCITED to see LaunchFast finally launch on Product Hunt today! As your brother, I’ve watched you pour your heart and soul into creating a tool that genuinely makes it easier for startups and creators to get their products off the ground and into the hands of users. From the sleek design to the powerful features, it’s clear that LaunchFast is going to be a game-changer for so many people out there. 🌟 I'm beyond proud of you for bringing this vision to life, and I can't wait to see how LaunchFast helps people launch their dreams into reality! Okay, okay, I might be a little biased because, well, I'm your brother. But seriously, folks — check it out, and you'll see what I'm talking about! 😉 Good luck today! 🎉
André Casal
@zecasal Hahaha thanks bro, you're the best 🤗❤️ Guys, if you want a top-notch designer, Zé is the best 🔥 (I'm also biased 😅😁)
Kirill Lapshev
I've bought a copy of LaunchFast, and it's great. As an SWE and an entrepreneur, I want to spend time building what matters and setting everything up, trying to understand the best technology for a certain purpose! It's amazing how one command can save me some weeks of work! 💻🚀 Looking forward to building more products faster than ever!
André Casal
@kirill_lapshev Kirill my man, thank you so much for your feedback 🤗 Looking forward to seeing the amazing things you build with it 🔥 Let's go 🚀
Ashley Biju
LaunchFast sounds incredible, André! The ability to set up a production-ready app in minutes with all the features and security built-in is a dream come true for developers. I’m excited to try it out and see how it can streamline my workflow. Thanks for creating such a powerful tool! 🙌
André Casal
@ashley_biju1 Thanks for such nice words Ashley 🙏 Please let me know how it goes, what you end up creating, and if you have any trouble! I'll be here to help out 🙌 Also love that you've launched Tweetlio CRM a few days ago, right?
Sergey Karakhanyan
André congrats on the launch!
André Casal
@karakhanyans Thank you so much Sergey 🙏
alexandra.kozareva
Great addition to the dev community! Upvoted.
André Casal
@alexandra_describy Thanks Alexandra, I appreciate your words 🙌😄
Hey congrats on the launch. The terminal script is great and it looks pretty easy to use ! Some things you could improve I think : - No way to accept payment right now (I know it's coming soon but if I build an app I would like to sell my products directly and not wait) - Out of the box the lighthouse report is better with Shipfast (Not sure if it's Next.js vs Remix or some small updates you could make) - Why would I need to setup all this if 99% of the time my apps have minimum to no success ? Real question what are the positive aspects of adding testing, auto deployment and all that to an app that often get no users. - I don't like the UI, not gonna lie, again with Shipfast you can get a clean ui and focused on selling your product. (Even Shipfast could be improve, I'm not a fan of DaisyUI). But I fell like your components could be improved a lot. (Add me on Twitter if you want to discuss a bit that). I would like to point that I like the fact that you're trying to offer an alternative to Shipfast that use a different approach with more control.
André Casal
@noeschmidt Hey Noé, thank you so much for your feedback! Here's my take. Stripe payments (one-time, recurring, and metered) are coming soon. You can see what's coming on the landing page roadmap. Lighthouse is not a good tool for measuring performance. Well-known fast websites perform badly in tests. I will eventually add best-practice performance profiling to the docs. I can notify you when that's online. >> Why would I need to setup all this if 99% of the time my apps have minimum to no success? Well, if you have that low success rate, take a look at Jobs-to-be-done. Tony Ulwich and Bob Moesta are particularly interesting characters to learn from. They teach us how to look at the market from a problem-space lens, instead of a solution-space lens. I often tell my students and mentees that it's not worth trying to solve a problem we don't yet understand. Tony and Bob are the cure for that. Regarding the technical aspect: there's nothing for you to set up. One of the design principles of LaunchFast is being non-intrusive. Don't want monitoring? It's disabled by default and it won't get in your way. Want to enable it? Just paste your Sentry-DSN into your .env vars. Same with analytics, payments, AI, OAuth, and email. Testing is different: testing is enabled by default. If you don't want to write tests for the new functionality you write, you don't have to. But all built-in functionality is tested. If you'd like to disable the tests for the current functionality, you can comment them out, but except for saving maybe 1 minute during your deployment, I don't see a good reason why one would do this. Regarding the UI, yeah, that's fair. I've done my best, but I see a lot of room for improvement too 😄 I was working on verveui.pro before working on LaunchFast, so the UI will get a massive improvement over time. Thank you! I try to deliver as much non-intrusive control as possible. My goal is simple: to give web developers the power to build beautiful, high-quality, and scalable web apps. My hope is that using LaunchFast makes developers feel a sense of joy and productivity ✨ Thank you for your words my friend!