Welcome to BoilerplateNews

BoilerplateNews is a news site for one topic: boilerplates, starter kits, and the scaffolding tools developers build on. Launches, releases, pricing changes, interviews with makers. Nothing else.

This is the first article. Here's what the site is, what it covers, and how it works.

Why a news site for boilerplates

Starter kits have turned into a market of their own. There are hundreds of commercial kits now, with release cycles, pricing tiers, and makers who run them as their main product. Developers pick one, build a business on it, and then depend on it for years.

Yet news in this space travels badly. A major release gets announced in a single social post. A pricing change shows up as one line in a changelog. The big developer news sites treat boilerplates as a footnote. To stay current, you'd have to follow fifty makers across social feeds, chat servers, and release notes.

This site collects it in one place.

What you'll find here

Boilerplates. New kits worth knowing about. Each post says what the kit is, which stack it uses, who it's for, and what it costs. No marketing copy.

Updates. Releases and notable changes to existing kits, submitted by the makers and reviewed before publishing. New major versions, changed stacks, new integrations, pricing changes. If a kit you depend on ships something that affects you, it should appear here the same week.

Interviews. Conversations with the people who build these kits. How they decide what goes in, how they price, what they'd do differently.

Tutorials. Guides built around real kits rather than generic framework tutorials. Setting up, extending, migrating.

Blog. Comparisons, opinions, and market overviews.

Sponsor. Paid articles from makers and tool vendors. They're labeled, they sit in their own category, and they don't get mixed into the editorial sections.

What you won't find

No general tech news. No framework drama that doesn't touch starter kits. No press releases rewritten into articles. If something is published here, it's because it's relevant to developers who build with boilerplates, and the article will say why.

The goal is a site you can check once a week and be up to date. Not a feed that competes for your attention.

How posts get in

Makers submit launches and updates through the submit form. Every submission is reviewed for fit before it goes live. Submitting is free.

Articles carry a category, tags for the stack and topic, and a named author. Makers are credited as the source of their own updates.

Advertising is separate from editorial content. Banner placements and sponsored articles are available on the advertise page, and sponsored content is always marked as such.

If you build a boilerplate

The Updates section works only if makers send things in. If you ship a release, change your pricing, or add an integration, submit it. It takes two minutes and reaches developers who are actively choosing what to build with next.

Stay in the loop

New articles land on the homepage and in the category feeds. Questions, corrections, and tips go through the contact page.

If you think something's missing, there's a good chance you're right. Tell me.