Indie hackers burn weeks wiring the same SaaS boilerplate
A builder reports spending three weeks manually wiring Stripe billing, auth, and LLM routing before writing any product-specific code. This undifferentiated setup work is a recurring time sink for solo and small-team SaaS builders launching a new product.
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