When you start a new SaaS, the website is rarely the first thing on your mind. You want to ship the product. But three days in, you are still wrestling with hero spacing, picking a font that will not look generic, or wondering why your pricing page somehow looks worse than the throwaway one you made on a Sunday afternoon.
That is the gap RicoFast is built for.
A polished foundation, not a starter
There are plenty of SaaS templates out there. Most of them fall into one of two camps:
- Bare-bones starters - a navbar, a hero, three feature cards, and not much else. You spend the next week building everything around it.
- Maximalist bundles - dozens of sections, page variants, and themes. You spend the next week deleting things you will never use.
RicoFast aims for the founders & startups. : core marketing pages, auth templates, content pages, utility pages, reusable sections you can mix and match, and a token-based design system that is documented well enough to extend with confidence.
What’s in the box
- Home, Features, Pricing, Blog, Changelog, About, Contact, Elements, Sign in, Sign up, 404 - wired, responsive, and dark-mode ready
- A reusable section system for hero areas, feature blocks, pricing cards, comparison tables, FAQ, tech stack, use cases, and final CTAs
- MDX-powered blog and changelog with sample content
- A documented design system in
docs/DESIGN.mdwhere colors, fonts, spacing, and motion rules are explained - An
/elementsreference page so you can inspect available UI before writing new CSS
Built on Astro, not against it
We picked Astro deliberately. It ships zero JavaScript by default, which keeps a marketing site fast even as you add sections. When you need interactivity - a pricing toggle, a mobile menu, an accordion - you add it where it belongs instead of shipping a global runtime for every page.
The template uses Astro Content Layer for blog and changelog content. That gives the site a simple local-content workflow today and a clear path to external content sources later.
Who it’s for
- Indie hackers launching their first product
- AI and developer tool teams that need a credible site quickly
- Open-source maintainers who want a product-quality project site
- Design-conscious engineers who can read CSS but do not want to invent a design system from scratch
The road to v1.0
This article introduced RicoFast before the stable release. The preview line focused on three milestones:
- v0.1 - prove the core page set, content structure, and design tokens.
- v0.2 - polish dark mode, motion, and product-preview framing.
- v0.3 - move content to Astro Content Layer and tighten performance.
The stable v1.0 release now builds on that foundation with auth templates, refreshed utility pages, final navigation, and production-ready English sample content.
If you build something with it, open an issue on GitHub and tell us what worked and what did not. The template gets better every time someone uses it for something we did not anticipate.
- The RicoFast team