Why I'm building RaceToProd

After years of building client projects at zune.one and dozens of full-stack builds for the YouTube channel, one pattern became impossible to ignore: every project starts with the same three weeks.

Auth. Payments. Emails. Dashboards. Team invites. Webhooks. Deployment pipelines. None of it is the product — all of it is required before the product can exist.

The idea

RaceToProd.com is SaaS boilerplates and production-ready source code: opinionated, modern-stack starting points where the boring 80% is already done, audited, and documented — so you skip the setup and race straight to prod.

What makes it different from the boilerplate graveyard already out there:

• Production-ready means production-ready. Every boilerplate ships with the deployment story solved, not a // TODO: configure trail.
• Taught, not just sold. Each codebase pairs with walkthrough content — the same teaching approach as the channel, applied to code you own.
• Real stacks. Next.js, TypeScript, Postgres, Stripe — the stack I use for actual client work, not a tech demo.

Building it in public

I'm launching RaceToProd the same way I grew the channel: in the open. Revenue numbers, what sells, what flops — it will all be documented here and on YouTube.

Launch is coming soon. If the idea resonates, the products page is where the numbers will live.