Lately I’ve been on a quest to code profitable apps and basically turn code into money. What I realized is that the apps I’ve built that actually made money follow the same pattern: a bunch of “boring but required” components show up every time—auth with email verification, paywalls, a landing page, and a database. In this video I walk through how I fast-track all of that so you’re not rebuilding the same foundation from scratch for every new SaaS idea. I also talk about how I use AI to move faster (especially with Cursor), but with a big caveat: AI can write like 90% of the code, and most of it works, but you still need skills for the last 10%—debugging, environment variables, fixing a misspelled DB column that breaks a query, and so on. My go-to web stack is TypeScript + Node, Supabase for data, Stripe for payments, Resend for email verification, and Vercel for deployment. Once you get a base implementation working, you can put it in a repo and just fork it for every new idea—so 70%+ of the work is already done and you can focus on what actually makes the app money.