They said AI would kill SaaS boilerplates, but it's doing the opposite
Open SaaS just crossed 14,000 GitHub stars — right in the middle of the biggest AI coding boom in history. Here's why SaaS boilerplates matter more in the AI era, not less.
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They said AI Would Kill SaaS Boilerplates. It's Doing the Opposite.April 23, 2026 · 6 min readVince CangerDeveloper Relations @ Wasp. Creator of OpenSaaS.sh.When ChatGPT launched everyone was predicting that developers would soon be obsolete. This was about the same time we launched Open SaaS, our free, open-source SaaS starter. Using the same logic, you'd have expected that AI would have killed boilerplate starters by now. But we noticed the opposite trend. Open SaaS launched and grew during the vibe coding boom Open SaaS just crossed 14,000 GitHub stars and its entire growth happened right in the middle of the vibe coding boom. This surprised us. So we decided to talk to 40 of our users to learn why they turned to Open SaaS.
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