Adding AI Features to Your SaaS Boilerplate
Dev.to AI
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Generative AI
TL;DR No major SaaS boilerplate ships production-ready AI features in 2026. ShipFast includes a basic chat; most others include nothing. You'll add AI yourself - but the good news is it's only ~200 lines of code for a solid foundation: a streaming chat API route, a useChat hook on the frontend, per-user token tracking, and rate limiting. The hard parts aren't the AI call itself - they're billing (who pays for tokens?), abuse prevention (protecting expensive endpoints), and UX (streaming responses, error states, interruption handling.