Leanplate

A levelsio-style PHP micro-stack template. Raw PHP, SQLite, no framework, no build step. Clone it, copy a config file, and you have passwordless auth, Stripe payments, and a deploy pipeline ready to go.

What it is

A starting point for a small subscription web app that one person can run on one cheap VPS. It favors plain functions, prepared statements, and boring infrastructure over abstractions. Everything you need fits in a handful of files you can read in an afternoon.

Stack

• PHP 8.3+
• SQLite with transactional, versioned schema migrations
• CSS
• Email: pluggable transport (log file in dev, Resend in prod)
• Payments: Stripe Checkout
• Auth: passwordless (magic links and Google OAuth),
• PWA: installable manifest, app icons, and static-asset service worker
• Deploy: Hetzner VPS , nginx plus PHP-FPM plus certbot, Cloudflare in front
• CI: GitHub Actions plus rsync

Quick start

cp src/config/config.example.php src/config/config.php
php -S 127.0.0.1:8000 -t public scripts/router.php

Open http://127.0.0.1:8000. With the default config, email is written to logs/mail.log (so magic links work without any mail server), and the Stripe and Google buttons stay hidden until you add keys.

Before shipping a clone, edit the committed src/config/app.php, replace the placeholder assets, and run:

php scripts/check-customization.php

See docs/CUSTOMIZE.md for the complete checklist.

Docs

• docs/CUSTOMIZE.md for the required changes after cloning.
• docs/DEVELOPMENT.md for local setup, conventions, and how to add a page or table.
• docs/DEPLOY.md for provisioning a Hetzner box and shipping to it.
• docs/GROWTH.md for optional product ideas deliberately left out of the core.

Credits

Feature set and philosophy inspired by Pieter Levels' book MAKE (https://readmake.com).

License

MIT. Use it, change it, ship it.