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

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.

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: Clone a template git clone https://github.com/ai-empire/neurastore cd neurastore Install dependencies npm install Add your API keys cp .env.example .env.local Deploy 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: js 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 https://ai-empire-steel.vercel.app What features would you want in a SaaS template?