GoShip

Open-source Go + HTMX SaaS boilerplate with Stripe, notifications and PWA support

Best for: Go developers who want a batteries-included, HTMX-driven SaaS boilerplate with billing, notifications and PWA support, avoiding a JS frontend framework entirely.
Skip if: You want a React/Vue-driven frontend or a more mature/widely-adopted Go starter with polished documentation - GoShip's docs are still a work in progress.

GoShip is a free, MIT-licensed Go boilerplate (forked from Pagoda) that pairs HTMX and Templ for server-rendered interactivity with Ent ORM, Postgres (with pgvector), and Stripe billing. It ships email/password auth, real-time and scheduled notifications with push support across PWA/iOS/Android, SMTP/Resend email templates, S3 file uploads, background task processing, and both Go unit tests and Playwright E2E tests, with Kamal-based deployment.

Pros

Genuinely comprehensive for a Go project - auth, Stripe billing, notifications, background jobs, file uploads and PWA support all included
Built and battle-tested in a real production app (Chérie), not just a demo
Includes pgvector support, making it AI/ML-ready out of the box

Cons

Documentation is explicitly still a work in progress per the maintainer
HTMX + Templ is a less mainstream pattern than React/Next.js, narrowing the pool of developers familiar with it
Smaller community (457 stars) than flagship SaaS boilerplates in other ecosystems