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We think there's value in an opinionated boilerplate!

But beyond just boilerplate, once you deploy your tools on our platform, we embed them in our parent web app which has the things you wouldn't want to bother writing (authentication, RBAC etc).

Also, we have AI that allows you to prompt for the tool you want when developing locally. It's actually live today, and we also show it in one of the videos.

The bigger goal is to have AI scaffold out your tool with our opinionated stack (the feedback loop for that is much quicker than asking GPT to create an entire web app).



I agree. I'm a single dev working on building a product. I don't mind opinionated platforms. Because I want to putting in the least possible amount of effort. I'm sure there are probably a lot of users like me.


I’ve setup OAuth before and it can be painful. But it’s become more straightforward these days, with existing boilerplates.

The AI prompted scaffold sounds pretty useful, though I’m not convinced it’ll be a USP moat.

Good luck nonetheless! Internal tooling and automation is an incredibly large market that has no clear winner yet.


clerk.dev makes OAuth dead-simple, especially for nextjs apps (plug and play).




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