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Refract vs Shingle

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Refract compared with Shingle
Detail RefractShingle logo Shingle
What it doesProduction-grade TypeScript boilerplate with billing, auth, and scalable architecture built in AI website builder for selling websites to local businesses
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Pricing modelPaid Free trial
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Key features
  • Billing engine with subscriptions, usage billing, pricing tiers, and multi-currency support
  • Stripe billing integration with idempotent webhook reconciliation
  • Role-based access control and multi-tenancy built in
  • BullMQ and AWS SQS queue adapters
  • Swappable provider adapters across full stack
  • GraphQL API with end-to-end code generation
  • Local Docker development parity with production
  • Observability with structured logging and metrics
  • Cursor rules and AI-ready documentation for code agents
  • Find businesses with no website on a map using open map data
  • Build AI-generated website demos from Google listings in 5-15 minutes
  • Fact-check every line against business's own sources with separate review
  • Send pitch links and track when businesses open them
  • Automatic follow-ups to quiet leads
  • CRM with all leads in one inbox
  • AI chatbot Dormer for analytics and questions about leads and deals
  • Clone existing websites by pasting their URL
  • Online booking system with services, staff and reminders
  • Download site code on the plan
What makes it different
  • Designed for SaaS that pivots—modular architecture with stable contracts so changing pricing, billing providers, or infrastructure requires config changes, not rewrites
  • One-time purchase with lifetime usage rights; you own the code forever with no runtime licensing checks
  • Built by founder with 15 years of SaaS experience, including Billing Tech Lead at Loom through Atlassian acquisition
  • Powers the website you're reading—not a packaged side project; every abstraction earned its place the hard way
  • Every fact on the site is checked against the business's own sources and reviewed line by line
  • Covers the entire sales process: finding leads, building demos, pitching and running follow-ups
  • Your content stays yours and you can download the code on the plan
Community votes00
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)3 no change since last check1 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)34
Citation Flow (Majestic)1713
Referring domains (Majestic)141

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