ShipAhead is a Nuxt boilerplate that helps developers ship SaaS products in a weekend by providing pre-built features like authentication, payments, and AI integration.
What is ShipAhead?
ShipAhead is a comprehensive Nuxt 4 boilerplate for building SaaS, AI tools, or web apps. It takes a blank Nuxt project as input and produces a fully functional application with user authentication, payment processing, database integration, email services, and deployable frontend and backend. The product is developed by the ShipAhead team and is optimized for use with AI coding agents like Cursor and Claude.
Key Features
- Authentication — Supports email/password, magic links, social logins (Google), forgot password flows, private/protected pages, and an admin area.
- Payments — Integrated with Stripe and Dodo Payments for one-time and subscription checkout flows.
- AI Integration — Includes AI chat, text generation, and image generation with the ability to switch GPT models.
- Internationalization — Built-in multi-language support via Nuxt i18n with a language switch toggle.
- Database & ORM — Fully typed database setup with Drizzle ORM and Postgres, including easy migrations.
- Style Customization — Fully customizable UI with light/dark mode and compatibility with NuxtUI.
- Admin Panel — Manage users, ban spammers, and clean admin dashboard.
- SEO & Analytics — Automatic meta tags, Open Graph images, sitemaps via Nuxt SEO, and built-in analytics with DataFast.
- File Storage — S3-compatible storage for secure file uploads.
- Deployment — Deploy in seconds to platforms like Vercel and Cloudflare.
Who is it for?
- Indie makers — Quickly launch a SaaS MVP without spending weeks on setup, using the included landing page, auth, and payments.
