Why I Stopped Copy-Pasting Repositories and Started Building My Own Starter CLI

Every developer has a "starter project." Some keep a GitHub template. Some duplicate their previous SaaS project. Some run create-next-app and spend the next two hours installing the same dependencies, configuring the same tools, and recreating the same folder structure.

I was in the second group. Every new project started the same way.

bun create next-app

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