Getting started with LaunchApp

LaunchApp is a production-ready SaaS starter monorepo. It bundles everything you need to go from idea to launch: authentication, a PostgreSQL database with Drizzle ORM, a Hono API server, and a React Router 7 frontend — all wired together and ready to deploy.

The monorepo is managed with pnpm and Turborepo. Internal packages live under the @repo/* namespace. Start by cloning the repository, copying .env.example to .env, and filling in your DATABASE_URL and BETTER_AUTH_SECRET. Then run docker compose up -d to start the local PostgreSQL instance.

Once the database is running, execute pnpm db:migrate to apply the initial schema, then pnpm dev to start all apps in watch mode. The web app is available on port 5173 and the API on port 3000 by default.

From here you can register a new account, explore the dashboard, and start customising the template for your own product. The package dependency graph in CLAUDE.md is a useful map of how everything connects.