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SaaS Builders Struggle to Identify Missing Infrastructure Needs

Indie SaaS founders repeatedly rebuild the same infrastructure (auth, billing, deployment, permissions) for each new project and struggle to know what boring-but-critical pieces they are still missing until real users expose them. This founder built a boilerplate to address it and is polling other builders about hidden infrastructure pain points.

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