Short version: ShipFast is excellent at what it promises — the fastest US-stack indie kit, with great marketing pages and a big community. If your customers are global or US-based, ShipFast is the right choice. If your customers are Swiss or European and want their data in Switzerland, Already CH ships Payrexx + TWINT, CHF/VAT pre-wired, nFADP register, Matomo cookie-free, and Exoscale hosting — same starter-kit scope, different jurisdiction.
Stack comparison
| Layer | ShipFast (US) | Already CH (CH 🇨🇭) |
|---|---|---|
| Framework | ||
| Next.js App Router | ✓ | ✓ |
| TypeScript | ✓ | ✓ |
| Tailwind + shadcn/ui | ✓ | ✓ |
| ORM | Mongoose / Prisma | Drizzle |
| Database | Mongo / Postgres | Supabase self-hosted on Exoscale CH |
| Billing | ||
| Payment processor | Stripe (US) | Payrexx (CH) |
| Default currency | USD | CHF |
| TWINT | — | ✓ |
| PostFinance | — | ✓ |
| Swiss VAT 8.1% pre-wired | — | ✓ |
| Idempotent webhook + dead-letter queue | — | ✓ |
| Hosting + Data residency | ||
| Default hosting | Vercel (US) | Exoscale + Coolify (CH) |
| Database region | Buyer's choice | CH (Geneva / Zurich) |
| No US sub-processors (default) | — | ✓ |
| Email + Auth | ||
| Transactional email | Resend (US) / Mailgun | Infomaniak SMTP (CH) |
| Auth | NextAuth / Supabase Auth | Supabase Auth (self-hosted) |
| TOTP + Passkeys | — | ✓ |
| Org-wide MFA mandate | — | ✓ |
| Multi-tenancy | ||
| Organisation / workspace model | — | ✓ |
| Postgres RLS + query-layer scoping | — | ✓ |
| Admin dashboard + impersonation | — | ✓ |
| Observability | ||
| Analytics | Plausible / GA | Matomo self-hosted (CH) |
| Cookie-free analytics (no consent banner) | — | ✓ |
| Error tracking | Sentry (US) | GlitchTip self-hosted (CH) |
| Feature flags | — | Unleash self-hosted (CH) |
| Bot protection | none / Cloudflare | Friendly Captcha (DE) |
| Compliance | ||
| nFADP data register at /admin | — | ✓ |
| Pre-written privacy policy | GDPR template | nFADP + GDPR |
| GDPR export + deletion endpoints | — | ✓ |
| Pricing | ||
| Modules | ~marketing-heavy | 16 production modules |
| Price | $149–299 one-time | CHF 199 one-time |
| Recurring fee | — | — |
Where ShipFast wins
ShipFast marketing
ShipFast ships polished marketing components — landing pages, pricing tables, FAQ blocks — that get a US-stack indie product live in a weekend. The community around Marc Lou's content is one of the most active in the indie-hacker world.
Already CH
Marketing components are deliberately minimal — we ship infrastructure, not page templates. If you want a curated landing page library, ShipFast is the better starting point and you can migrate the back-end later.
Where Already CH wins
ShipFast
No TWINT. No PostFinance. No Swiss VAT pre-wiring. No nFADP register. No data-residency guarantees. Hosting + analytics + email all default to US providers. For a Swiss B2B buyer, every one of these is a sales blocker that takes days to fix.
Already CH Swiss-sovereign
Payrexx + TWINT + PostFinance + Apple Pay + Google Pay out of the box. Swiss VAT 8.1% pre-calculated. nFADP register at /admin/data-register. Matomo cookie-free (no consent banner). Exoscale CH hosting. Mistral AI as primary AI provider.
Modules + scope
ShipFast is intentionally indie-scoped: auth, basic Stripe, basic email, marketing pages. It does not ship multi-tenancy, admin dashboard, background jobs, AI integration, feature flags, or hardened security defaults. For B2B SaaS, you'll build those after ShipFast gets you live.
Already CH ships 16 modules: auth (TOTP + passkeys + MFA mandate), Payrexx billing, multi-tenant orgs + RBAC + RLS, admin dashboard, messaging (Infomaniak), background jobs, security hardening, AI integration (Mistral + optional US fallbacks), feature flags (Unleash), observability (GlitchTip + Matomo), nFADP register, i18n DE/FR/IT/EN, growth features, suspicious-activity detection, migration assistant, and the dev-experience layer (CLAUDE.md, doctor, Biome).
Who should use what
Use ShipFast when
- You're a solo founder shipping a B2C product in a weekend
- Your customers are US-based or global
- You don't need Swiss data residency or TWINT
- Polished marketing pages matter more than infrastructure
- Marc Lou's community + tutorials are part of why you buy
Use Already CH when
- Your customers are Swiss or European and expect TWINT
- You need to prove data stays in Switzerland
- nFADP audit risk is a real concern
- You're forming a GmbH and want CHF + 8.1% VAT pre-wired
- You need multi-tenancy, admin, and AI integration from day 1
The honest comparison
ShipFast is genuinely excellent at what it promises: the fastest US-stack path from idea to live URL. If you're building global SaaS, ShipFast is the better starting point — the US-stack defaults have wider reach and the community is unbeatable.
Already CH is for a different customer. If you're building for Switzerland or German-speaking Europe and your buyers care where their data lives, Already CH removes a week of integration work and a year of compliance uncertainty. Same one-time price band, different jurisdiction.