Building Modlith: A Minimal SaaS Boilerplate

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.