Building Modlith: A Minimal SaaS Boilerplate
Mar 4, 2026
Modlith is our internal Elixir SaaS boilerplate designed to remove all friction from launching new applications.
Instead of rebuilding the same infrastructure every time, we focus on building the actual product.
The boilerplate already includes:
- Stripe billing
- transactional email
- analytics
- CI/CD pipeline
- container deployment
Why minimal matters
Good SaaS software benefits from restraint.
Every feature added increases:
- maintenance cost
- support complexity
- cognitive load
The real skill in SaaS development is knowing what not to build.
Distribution before perfection
One of the most common mistakes in SaaS development is building too long before validating the market.
Modlith is built with distribution features ready from day one:
- blog
- roadmap
- releases
- waiting lists
These allow validation before investing months into development.
What’s next
Modlith will continue evolving as new SaaS projects are launched, but changes are made only when they are clearly valuable.
The goal is a stable, minimal, battle-tested foundation.