How I Built a SaaS Template Marketplace with Next.js 14, Groq AI, and Stripe

Title: How I Built a SaaS Template Marketplace with Next.js 14, Groq AI, and Stripe

I spent the last 2 weeks building AI Empire — a marketplace of production-ready Next.js 14 templates for SaaS products. Here's what I learned and the technical decisions I made.

Every SaaS project starts the same way:

This takes 2-4 weeks. By the time you're done, you've lost momentum on your actual product idea.

I built 10 templates that handle all of this:

git clone https://github.com/ai-empire/neurastore
cd neurastore

npm install

cp .env.example .env.local

vercel deploy

Each template includes:

Groq offers free inference with no API key restrictions. For a template marketplace, this means:

Stripe is the industry standard for SaaS billing. I integrated:

Prisma gives you type-safe database queries:

const templates = await prisma.template.findMany({
  where: { featured: true },
  orderBy: { price: 'asc' },
});

I'm working on:

If you're building a SaaS and want to skip boilerplate, check it out: https://ai-empire-steel.vercel.app

What features would you want in a SaaS template?