Introducing the Solana Starter Kit: From Months to Minutes
A production-ready toolkit built with top Solana teams, designed to help developers skip setup, ship faster, and focus on building real features from day one.
At Tapestry, we've always believed that building onchain should be about innovation, not infrastructure headaches. That's why we're excited to announce the launch of the Solana Starter Kit—a collaboration that's about to change how developers approach Solana app development.
The Problem We Solved
Expanding into a new chain is like landing on a new planet. Every ecosystem has different terrain, norms, and tooling.
The Starter Kit is a bridge—for developers coming to Solana who don’t want to spend 140+ hours learning the ropes before shipping a single feature. We’re helping teams skip the struggle and get to product.
What Makes This Different
The Solana Starter Kit isn't just another template. It's a comprehensive foundation that includes everything you need to ship a production-ready Solana application:
It’s curated. We picked the infra we trust—and the same tools we'd use ourselves.
It’s collaborative. Built with top teams in the Solana ecosystem. You're not gluing random SDKs together.
It’s fast. Early builders are seeing 10x faster dev cycles—what used to take weeks now takes minutes.
The kit includes:
Wallet Authentication that works out of the box—secure, reliable, and user-friendly. No more wrestling with connection states or handling edge cases.
Social Infrastructure powered by Tapestry's onchain identity API, giving your users the community features they expect: profiles, follows, and real-time notifications.
Portfolio Management with beautiful, real-time wallet dashboards that your users will actually want to use.
Token Swapping connected to the best on-chain rates, without the backend complexity that usually comes with DeFi integration.
Enterprise-Grade RPC through our partnership with Helius, ensuring your app scales as your user base grows.
Built by the Best
This isn't a solo effort. We've partnered with the infrastructure leaders who power the Solana ecosystem:
Privy brings battle-tested wallet authentication
0x provides access to Solana's deepest liquidity
Helius delivers the RPC infrastructure that scales
Zerion powers comprehensive portfolio analytics
Together, we've created something that would have taken any individual team months to build and years to perfect.
The Impact
Early developers using the kit are reporting 10x faster development cycles. What used to take months of setup now takes minutes. What used to require deep infrastructure knowledge now works out of the box.
This means more time building features that matter. More time focusing on user experience. More time creating the applications that will define the next wave of Solana adoption.
At Tapestry, we're building the social layer for web3. But social infrastructure is only valuable when developers can easily integrate it into compelling applications. The Solana Starter Kit makes that integration seamless, which means more developers can build social-first experiences on Solana.
When the barrier to entry drops, innovation accelerates. When innovation accelerates, the entire ecosystem benefits.
What's Next
The Solana Starter Kit is live and ready for developers today. We're not stopping here—expect regular updates, new integrations, and expanded functionality as the Solana ecosystem continues to evolve.
For developers ready to build the next generation of Solana applications, the toolkit is waiting. For the ecosystem as a whole, this represents something bigger: a commitment to making web3 development as approachable as it is powerful.
Ready to build? Check out the Solana Starter Kit on GitHub and see what you can ship today.
The future of Solana development just got a whole lot brighter—and a whole lot faster.