Startkit.ai – Boilerplate for building products with AI
Hey HN! I've been serially building AI projects for over a year, and building node + js SaaS products for over 10 years with my partner. We decided to combine everything we know about AI with our node best-practices into a code boilerplate and see if it can help anyone else! We've had a bunch of positive feedback already from early-users, and at least two SaaS products being developed right now with StartKit.AI as their base. Here's what you get! → Pre-built modules for all common AI tasks: - Chat! Everything to build a ChatGPT clone or your own chatbot. With best-practice implementations of…
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Startkit.ai is a Node.js and JavaScript boilerplate for developers building AI-powered SaaS products. It provides pre-built modules for common AI tasks including chatbots, image generation and editing, text creation, speech processing, translation, and content moderation, along with an admin dashboard for customer management. The boilerplate combines over a year of AI project experience with ten years of SaaS development best practices, designed to accelerate product development for teams familiar with Node.js.
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Hey HN! I've been serially building AI projects for over a year, and building node + js SaaS products for over 10 years with my partner. We decided to combine everything we know about AI with our node best-practices into a code boilerplate and see if it can help anyone else! We've had a bunch of positive feedback already from early-users, and at least two SaaS products being developed right now with StartKit.AI as their base. Here's what you get! → Pre-built modules for all common AI tasks: - Chat! Everything to build a ChatGPT clone or your own chatbot. With best-practice implementations of embeddings, function-calling, RAG, web-crawling and more. - Image creation, detection, editing - Long-form text creation, blog posts etc - Speech-to-Text and Text-to-Speech - Live translation - Moderation, harmful-text detection and sentiment analysis → Admin Dashboard to see details of your customers' API usage and manage your vector embeddings. → Out of the box middleware for user authentication, usage and rate limits, Stripe integration, and more! → 5 demo applications, ChatGPT Clone, "Chat with a PDF", Image avatar creator, and Blog Post Generator. → Access to our GitHub repo with the code for everything, as well as our discussion board and Telegram Support Channel. Currently we just support OpenAIs models, but soon we'll be adding support for more. I'll be happy to answer any questions!
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