I have bought a lot of Next.js SaaS boilerplates. Most have the same problem: the demo looks incredible, and the repo behind it is held together with tape.
You see a stunning landing page, a pricing section, a dashboard screenshot. You pay. You clone it. An hour in you find auth with no session-refresh handling, a Stripe webhook that never verifies signatures, no tests, accessibility never considered, and "compliance" that means a Terms page someone pasted in.
The landing page sells. The product underneath is the 80% nobody screenshots.
What's actually missing
The hard, not so glamorous parts are exactly the parts a screenshot can't show:
