When you feel like your SaaS is ready for the market, you'll need to create a production deployment. 

Inside Vercel platform, create the next project, and import from Git platform of your choice.

Give your project a name and make sure all environment variables are set properly.

Here's the list of all environment variables that need to be provided.

Your application won't function properly, if you forget to specify ENV variables.

if you did everything correctly, your project should be deployed and assigned a new URL.

Deploy to Production

At some point, you'll want to change the information about the site. 

You won't longer call it SaaS Starter. You'll most likely give it your own name. That's when customization comes into play.

To achieve this, all you need to do is modify the information in 

Once you update these values, the site gets updated accordingly, even the important SEO information. 

To update the favicon, you need to have a square-type logo.

To generate a proper favicon logo for your website, use 

Download all the files from the favicon generator and place them inside 

Replace old files if you get prompted to do so.

This template also uses the horizontal type of logo used in the header and sidebar.

To replace it with your own logo, change the file in 

Customize Branding

Writing helpful blog posts is a great way to get in front of your audience, and grow your SaaS. For this reason, we decided to add a fully featured blog to our template.

By following the instructions in this post, you'll have a running blog inside your SaaS in a couple of minutes.

Sanity will serve as a CMS for our blog. If you don't have an account yet, you can 

Once your account is ready, head over to the project and go inside 

First, we need to install dependencies by running 

When dependencies are installed, we proceed by creating a new project. Run 

This will trigger the creation of a new project inside Sanity.

You will be prompted to provide a name for your project. 

You will also be prompted to choose dataset configuration. Just use the default one.

Next, we need to pick a domain where our CMS gets deployed.

We should see the success message with the URL for our CMS.

Just click on the generated URL and sign in with your Sanity account.

Now that we have the CMS up and running, it's time to write the first blog post.

Every blog post needs an author. Start by creating one inside Sanity Studio. 

Same as with the author, we need to create a category for our blog post.

And finally, we're ready to create a blog post.

Sanity studio is preconfigured with basic tools to write a comprehensive blog post.

If you feel that it's not sufficient for you, you can still 

Setting Up Blog

The authentication flow is managed using 

We've preconfigured the template to support Google and email authentication. In order to make these work, follow the instructions in individual sections.

 and create a new project if you don't already have one.

Now, we need to create an OAuth credential for the project.

Once the credential is created, we need to set up an OAuth client properly.

http://localhost:3000/api/auth/callback/google

Once you save your changes, you'll be given the client ID and Secret. Store these values into 

Next Auth requires to create a random string used for signing secrets. Write one and store it inside 

To enable sign-in through e-mail, we need to use an SMTP email provider. The most popular options are 

Pick the SMTP provider of your choice, and once you have the credentials, add them inside 

EMAIL_SERVER_HOST=smtp-relay.sendinblue.com

EMAIL_SERVER_USER=bado.bernard94@gmail.com

If you set the credentials successfully, it's time to add the database.

In order to create users, we need to have a database.

The template is preconfigured to use PostgreSQL to persist the data, but you can also change it to other DB providers if you wish.

To set up a database, you need to have it running locally, or use the cloud instance of your choice.

Once you have the database up and running, copy the connection URL and paste it inside 

DATABASE_URL=postgres://bklorcl:34f2f60e0f@ec2-63-34-180-86.eu-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com:5432/sahk

This will generate a database client and initializes the schema.

You can now try to sign up for your newly bootstrapped SaaS.

To learn more about authentication providers, take a look at the 

Once you add/remove the providers, make sure to update the Sign In UI accordingly.

Adding Authentication

This guide will walk you through installing this template. It'll only take a couple of seconds and at the end, we'll have a local dev server running.

After you've downloaded the source code, go inside the project directory, and install all necessary dependencies by running 

Once, all dependencies are installed, we can start the development server by running 

You should be welcomed with the following screen.

SaaS Building Blocks

Deploy to Production

Customize Branding

Setting Up Blog

Adding Authentication

Installing Starter