The Olympus Framework is the best place to start for your next SaaS business or sideproject. Olympus is an application built to be quickly spun into any common SaaS business model.
Launching a SaaS application as a business is really hard. The unfortunate reality is there is a mountain of work to do before you can even begin working on your application. Entrepreneurs and developers, the cost conscious bunch they are, try to minimize as much of this work around areas such as billing, security and analytic systems.
The result has been not great. The applicaiton is shipped barely functional, database leaks and security holes are there for anyone that wants to look, and the price spent is way more than budgeted.
And so arrives Olympus. Olympus is the culmination of over a decade working with poorly built production Rails applications. I found myself rewriting the same systems over and over again at a variety of different companies and businesses. I learned that the biggest enemy to a developer is thinking that their application is special. The reality is that 80% of an application is easy sharable (okay back of napkin guesstimate there).
Olympus is that 80%. From day one, it lets you hit the ground running jumping into the fun 20% that is custom to you. Everything else to make your SaaS app function is provided. Don't need certain bits of functionality? Easily delete it. The modular nature makes it easy to remove the parts that you may not need.
Olympus is meant to be the most powerful toolset for launching your SaaS business or sideproject, but not necessarily the easiest. While ease of use is a top concern, it's important to still have some general knowledge of building applications and architecture. Olympus additions are written in plain and simple Ruby. We don't use any DSL and try not to abstract away every bit of functionality. If you're just starting out as a beginner, there may be other places to get a bit better start and then jump back here when you can fairly easily read and navigate a code base.
This is a starting point. It's best to download the source and init your own git repo.
Olympus has a comprehensive getting started guide at OlympusFramework.com.
Once your up and running make sure to read the framework guide by running bin/docs
The framework guide has documentation around the individual modules and areas
of Olympus as well as code references on how to implement the common bits that
you will need to build your app. Since the documentation lives directly in the
repo, it's a breeze to copy code from the docs right into the views and
controllers you are using.
In case you are getting error ./bin/docs: line 1: docsify: command not found. Please
install docsify-cli which is npm package can and installed using command line npm i docsify-cli -g.