Introducing Coding Capybaras: Ship Your SaaS in a Weekend with AI

For most of the last decade, "shipping a SaaS" has meant "be a developer." Even with the modern boilerplates — ShipFast, Makerkit, Supastarter — you needed enough engineering background to wrangle Stripe webhooks, RLS policies, env var sprawl, and a deploy pipeline before you could think about your actual idea.

AI coding tools changed that. Claude Code, Cursor, Cowork — these tools write production-grade code now. The bottleneck for first-time founders moved from "can I write the code" to "can I navigate the infrastructure."

Coding Capybaras is built for that moment.

What it is

Coding Capybaras is a SaaS boilerplate — Next.js 15, Supabase, Stripe, Resend — designed to be shipped, customized, and operated by founders using AI assistants. The complete codebase that powers this site is what you download. Free tier. No watered-down trial.

The opinionated part isn't the stack (you can swap pieces). It's the architecture and the workflow:

• Three separate regions (/platform, /website, /product) so AI agents stay focused on the right surface
• Admin GUI for configuration — change pricing, branding, email templates, feature flags without editing code
• Guided onboarding journey — step-by-step setup through Supabase, Stripe, Resend, and your first deploy
• Integration marketplace with copy-paste AI prompts — wire up Sentry, PostHog, image hosting, and more by pasting a prompt into Claude Code
• AI rule files in every region so your AI assistant understands the architecture immediately

Why I built this

I'm a non-tech founder. I've built commerce sites and operational systems for businesses I run — but I never came up through software engineering. Every time I tried to use an existing SaaS boilerplate, I'd hit the same wall: env config, Stripe webhooks, a Supabase setup step that assumed I already knew the answer. I'd ask Claude for help, and burn the weekend on plumbing instead of the product.

So I built the version I wanted. One where the infrastructure is solved, the configuration is GUI-driven, the AI agents have clear architectural context, and the journey from "I have an idea" to "my SaaS is live and accepting payments" is a guided path, not an obstacle course.

This site itself is built on the boilerplate. Every page you're looking at — the marketing, the pricing, the admin dashboard, the blog post you're reading right now — is the same code anyone will download and customize. There's no maintainer divergence: I have to use what I ship.

What's actually different

Where Coding Capybaras lives in the boilerplate landscape:

• Target user. Built for first-time and non-technical founders, not working software engineers. If you can wire your own Stripe webhooks in your sleep, you probably don't need this.
• Setup model. Admin GUI for configuration, not config.ts edits. Change pricing, branding, copy, and feature flags from the browser.
• AI integration. Rule files in every region plus copy-paste install prompts in the integration marketplace. The boilerplate is designed for the AI-assisted workflow, not retrofitted to it.
• Free tier. The complete boilerplate, not a limited demo. Forever.
• Dogfood loop. This site is the boilerplate. Improvements I ship for codingcapybaras.com are improvements that flow downstream to your deploy through a clean sync workflow.

Who this is for

• First-time founders with a SaaS idea and limited coding background
• Indie hackers who want AI assistants doing the heavy lifting
• Solo operators who want to validate a product without a month of infrastructure work
• People who've tried other boilerplates and bounced off the configuration burden

Pricing

The Free tier is the complete boilerplate. You can ship a real, paying SaaS on it. No subscription required to launch your business.

The Pro tier is $97 — one-time, founding price (going up as I build more) — which unlocks the "Built by Coding Capybaras" attribution removal, ongoing boilerplate updates, and a growing set of Pro features. Founding-price buyers keep their price forever.

What's next

This is v1. Built in public, shipping in public. The roadmap I'm working through:

• A real Teams system (multi-admin, role-based access) — Pro tier
• An expanding integration marketplace with more AI-ready install prompts
• Deeper analytics in the admin dashboard
• Long-form content and tutorials on this blog covering AI-assisted SaaS building

If you build something with it, I want to hear about it.

Try it

• Sign up and start building — free, no card required
• Browse the integration marketplace
• Pricing details

Built with Claude Code, for founders who'd rather ship than debug.