They said AI Would Kill SaaS Boilerplates. It's Doing the Opposite.

Open SaaS, a free open-source SaaS starter, just hit 14,000 GitHub stars — growing through the entire vibe coding boom, not dying from it. Interviews with 40 users revealed that AI unlocks new builders but struggles with architecture decisions like auth, Stripe webhooks, and deployment. A solid boilerplate handles those hard parts, letting AI focus on feature code and dramatically improving output quality.