{"slug": "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", "summary": "A developer built AI Empire, a marketplace of production-ready Next.js 14 templates for SaaS products, integrating Groq AI for free inference and Stripe for billing. The platform offers 10 templates that handle authentication, payments, and AI features, aiming to reduce the initial setup time for SaaS projects.", "body_md": "Title: How I Built a SaaS Template Marketplace with Next.js 14, Groq AI, and Stripe\n\nI 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.\n\nEvery SaaS project starts the same way:\n\nThis takes 2-4 weeks. By the time you're done, you've lost momentum on your actual product idea.\n\nI built 10 templates that handle all of this:\n\n```\n# Clone a template\ngit clone https://github.com/ai-empire/neurastore\ncd neurastore\n\n# Install dependencies\nnpm install\n\n# Add your API keys\ncp .env.example .env.local\n\n# Deploy\nvercel deploy\n```\n\nEach template includes:\n\nGroq offers free inference with no API key restrictions. For a template marketplace, this means:\n\nStripe is the industry standard for SaaS billing. I integrated:\n\nPrisma gives you type-safe database queries:\n\n``` js\nconst templates = await prisma.template.findMany({\n  where: { featured: true },\n  orderBy: { price: 'asc' },\n});\n```\n\nI'm working on:\n\nIf you're building a SaaS and want to skip boilerplate, check it out: [https://ai-empire-steel.vercel.app](https://ai-empire-steel.vercel.app)\n\nWhat features would you want in a SaaS template?", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-i-built-a-saas-template-marketplace-with-next-js-14-groq-ai-and-stripe", "canonical_source": "https://dev.to/samymultiservice/how-i-built-a-saas-template-marketplace-with-nextjs-14-groq-ai-and-stripe-51hg", "published_at": "2026-06-21 18:43:38+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-06-21 19:34:06.009486+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["developer-tools", "ai-products", "large-language-models"], "entities": ["Next.js 14", "Groq AI", "Stripe", "Prisma", "Vercel", "AI Empire"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-i-built-a-saas-template-marketplace-with-next-js-14-groq-ai-and-stripe", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-i-built-a-saas-template-marketplace-with-next-js-14-groq-ai-and-stripe.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-i-built-a-saas-template-marketplace-with-next-js-14-groq-ai-and-stripe.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/how-i-built-a-saas-template-marketplace-with-next-js-14-groq-ai-and-stripe.jsonld"}}