wasp VS open-saas

First off, Wasp is a full-stack React, NodeJS, and Prisma framework with superpowers. It just crossed 10,000 stars on GitHub, and it has been used to create over 50,000 projects.

When building AI Blog Articles, I decided to get started as fast as possible. So I looked for a free boilerplate and stumbled upon Open SaaS, which used YC-backed Wasp. It is a full-stack React + NodeJS + Prisma that takes 8 hours to get started with.

Exactly. Wasp, https://wasp-lang.dev, is the only framework in the React/Node/Prisma space that's taking this opinionated approach to full-stack development.

For example, you get full-stack auth by just adding this to your config file:

`auth.methods: { email: {}, google: {} }`

Then you on-the-fly Auth UI components and all the necessary hooks

If you already have some sort of foundation in programming, use AI and some great abstractions/frameworks to get things done even faster. For example, instead of creating everything from the ground up (and probably suffering on little things along the way) you can skip repeating yourself a ton of times by using Wasp, which is a great React/Node full-stack framework that takes care of managing the boilerplate side of programming for you. 🤯

Aider is one of my favorite AI agents, especially because it can work with existing codebases. We've seen a lot of good results from folks who used it with Wasp (https://github.com/wasp-lang/wasp) - a full-stack web framework I'm working on.

A "marketingy" demo video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXunbNBpgZg&ab_channel=Wasp

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For those who want the tool to have full control over their stack simply and easily, look no further! Wasp is an opinionated full-stack framework that leverages its compiler for a fast and easy way to create a database, backend, and frontend for your app. It uses React, Node.js, and Prisma, which are some of the most well-known tools that full-stack web developers are using.

Although our main product is Wasp, a full-stack framework on top of React & Node.js, here’s what we launched so far:

When building AI Blog Articles, I decided to get started as fast as possible. So I looked for a free boilerplate and stumbled upon Open SaaS, which used YC-backed Wasp. It is a full-stack React + NodeJS + Prisma that takes 8 hours to get started with.

In addition, their CLI can help you start faster too. By running wasp new, you can get yourself a custom template that fits your needs. For example, if you’re building up a new SaaS, you’ll probably find a fit with OpenSaaS or if you’re creating a more specific solution, an AI code generator can help you start quickly if nothing else fits.

9,500 stars and almost 3 years later, here we are today. Wasp is getting close to entering the elite 10,000 stars club on GitHub, next to the giants of the industry. The framework we started, and developed further with the invaluable feedback from the community, is being used by all kinds of developers - from weekend projects, to startups and top enterprises. Startups made with Wasp have been acquired. I just saw a job ad today on Upwork, where a company is hiring for Open SaaS (an open-source, free boilerplate starter for React & Node.js, powered by Wasp) developers 🤯.

These days, I'm building side projects, like Open SaaS pictured above, and working as a developer relations engineer.

Although some people could consider Wasp’s opinionated stance a negative thing, it is the driver behind Wasp’s numerous full-stack features. With Wasp, starting a full-stack project for a single developer or a small team is much easier, especially if you use one of the pre-made templates or OpenSaaS as your SaaS starter. Because the core of the project is well-defined, it is very easy to get started with a project and potentially, make your own full-stack SaaS in a couple of days! What’s also cool is the fact that most of the pre-existing knowledge of web developers for most of them still applies here, because the technologies that Wasp uses are established.

OpenSaaS – I was curious what the latest starter kit for building out SaaS apps looks like. I wrote my own a whole decade ago github.com/eddywashere/node-stripe-membership-saas.

We’ve launched 6 times on Product Hunt in the last 3 years, won “Top Product” awards (#1 and #5 of the day), and collected over 2,000 upvotes in total. We just finished our sixth launch with Open SaaS - an open-source alternative to $300+ SaaS starters, a week ago.

Hey,

a few people have asked me how we got our [open-source SaaS starter](https://github.com/wasp-lang/open-saas) to the front page of GitHub trending, so I thought I'd share the details:

1. started sharing a funny promo [video on twitter](https://x.com/hot_town/status/1752243248439910626?s=20) and reddit

would you mind opening a feature request? Would love to hear more about it: https://github.com/wasp-lang/open-saas/issues