Stop Building SaaS from Scratch: Meet the SeaNotes Starter Kit

Stop Building SaaS from Scratch: Meet the SeaNotes Starter Kit What is SeaNotes? Who It’s For It Solves the Right User Stories (So You Don’t Have To) Works Great with LLMs Complete Feature Set 🧾 Billing and Invoice Generation 🧑‍💼Admin Dashboard 🧠Generate a note with Gradient Serverless Inference 👤User Profile Settings System Status Try It Out Get Started About the author(s) Try DigitalOcean for free Related Articles Powered by DigitalOcean Hatch: Why Uxify’s Founders Always Choose DigitalOcean Powered by DigitalOcean Hatch: Ontra Mobility is Building Smarter Cities Powered by DigitalOcean Hatch: How Ex-human uses GPU Droplets to Build Empathetic AI that Serves Customers By Amit Jotwani and Haimantika Mitra Published: August 21, 2025 3 min read There’s a moment in every SaaS project where you realize… You’re not building your product yet. You’re setting up auth. You’re wiring up Stripe. You’re figuring out how to send emails, where to store files, how to deploy it — and now, how to sprinkle in just enough AI to make it feel modern. Even in 2025, LLMs still struggle with this part. They’re great at scaffolding UI and generating business logic. But they don’t know how to spin up a database, integrate Stripe, or deploy an actual app. That’s exactly what SeaStack solves. SeaStack is a new series of open-source starter kits and reference apps from DigitalOcean — built to help developers ship real apps, faster. It’s our way of saying: “ Here’s how you can build real things with DigitalOcean — and here’s the source code to get started. ” And SeaNotes is the first one. Live Demo View the GitHub Repo SeaNotes SaaS Starter Kit is an open source GitHub repo that gives developers a simple, production-ready foundation to build real SaaS apps — fast.