Question 1

What is Simple Core?

Accepted Answer

Simple Core is a managed backend service (BaaS) that unifies authentication, payments, pricing, and operational logic into a single API and management dashboard. Instead of building and maintaining auth systems, billing flows, entitlements, subscriptions, webhooks, and admin tooling yourself, Simple Core provides these as ready-to-use infrastructure. You integrate once and focus only on your product’s business logic.

Question 2

What problem does Simple Core solve?

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Simple Core eliminates the need to write, maintain, and debug operational code. Operational code includes authentication flows, subscription handling, payment edge cases, feature entitlements, plan enforcement, discounts, upgrades/downgrades, and webhook orchestration. These are necessary but non-differentiating tasks that slow teams down. Simple Core centralizes all of this behind a stable, unified API.

Question 3

Who is Simple Core for?

Accepted Answer

Simple Core is designed for founders and startups shipping SaaS products, builders working on multiple apps or experiments, indie hackers and solo developers, vibe coders who want production-grade infrastructure without deep ops knowledge, and teams that want to move from beta to scale without rewriting backend systems. If you want to avoid rebuilding auth and billing for every new product, Simple Core is a strong fit.

Question 4

Is Simple Core a replacement for my backend?

Accepted Answer

No. Simple Core does not replace your business logic or application backend. It handles the operational layer only: authentication, payments, plans, entitlements, and product configuration. Your app remains fully in control of domain logic, workflows, UI, and differentiation. Simple Core cleanly decouples operations from business logic.

Question 5

How does Simple Core work technically?

Accepted Answer

Simple Core is deployed on your own subdomain (for example, suite.company.io) and connects to your Supabase and payment gateways. It provides a hosted UI for users (auth, checkout, billing), a headless API for developers, and a management dashboard for configuration. You consume the API and optionally the hosted UI to bridge operational logic with your product.

Question 6

Does Simple Core provide a hosted UI?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Simple Core includes fully white-labeled hosted UI for Authentication flows, Checkout and subscription flows, and Billing management. These flows are optimized for conversion, retention, and edge cases, saving significant development time. You can use them as-is or combine them with headless APIs.

Question 7

What does “headless” mean in Simple Core?

Accepted Answer

Headless means you can use Simple Core purely as an API. You build your own UI (web, mobile, or desktop) while Simple Core handles auth, payments, plans, and enforcement logic behind the scenes. You can also mix hosted UI and headless usage per product or per flow.

Question 8

What authentication methods are supported?

Accepted Answer

Simple Core uses Supabase for authentication, so it supports all Supabase auth flows, including Email and password, Magic links, Social logins, and OAuth providers. You choose the flows, and Simple Core integrates them into a unified operational system.

Question 9

How does Simple Core handle payments?

Accepted Answer

Simple Core integrates directly with Stripe and Paddle. You connect your own gateway accounts, each product is linked to a payment provider, and pricing and plans are synchronized automatically. Simple Core does not process or store payments itself, ensuring compliance from day one without PCI complexity.

Question 10

Can I manage subscriptions, plans, and discounts?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Simple Core supports monthly, yearly, and weekly subscriptions, one-time purchases, add-ons, discounts and promotions, and upgrades/downgrades/plan switches. All of this is configured in the dashboard and enforced via API, without custom billing logic.

Question 11

How are feature limits and entitlements enforced?

Accepted Answer

Simple Core exposes plan-based feature and usage enforcement. You define features, limits, and entitlements in the dashboard. Your app simply calls the API to check permissions or usage. This removes the need to hardcode plan logic across your codebase.

Question 12

Is my data secure, and who owns it?

Accepted Answer

You fully own your data. Simple Core uses your Supabase and Postgres instance for operational data. You provide the credentials, and Simple Core sets it up as a managed service. We act only as infrastructure, not a data owner.

Question 13

Can I use Simple Core for multiple products?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Simple Core is designed for multi-product usage. You can manage multiple SaaS apps, tools, or experiments from one system, each with its own auth, pricing, and payment configuration.

Question 14

Does Simple Core support teams and enterprise users?

Accepted Answer

Yes. Simple Core supports single-user products, team-based SaaS, and enterprise-style access models. The operational layer is flexible enough to support different user and account structures.

Question 15

Is Simple Core production-ready?

Accepted Answer

Simple Core is currently in beta. It is built to support the full lifecycle—from early beta to production and scaling—on the operational side. While minor issues may occur during beta, the system is designed to provide long-term stability and scalability.

Question 16

What upcoming features are planned?

Accepted Answer

Upcoming features include AppSumo license and lifetime plan automation, automatic subscription handling for AppSumo launches, and built-in waitlist management. These are designed to support go-to-market and growth workflows.

Question 17

Why not build this myself?

Accepted Answer

You can—but it is costly. Building auth, billing, entitlements, webhooks, dashboards, and edge-case handling takes months and constant maintenance. Simple Core lets you ship faster, reduce risk, and reuse a proven operational foundation across products.

Question 18

What is the core value of Simple Core?

Accepted Answer

Simple Core decouples operational complexity from business logic. It gives you a stable, unified API and managed experience for authentication, payments, and product operations—so you can focus on what actually differentiates your product.

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