Introducing RicoFast

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’re still wrestling with hero spacing, picking a font that won’t look generic, or wondering why your pricing page somehow looks worse than the throwaway one you made on a Sunday afternoon.

That’s 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 that’s it. You spend the next week building everything else.
• Maximalist bundles — 80 sections, 12 page variants, four color themes. You spend the next week deleting things you’ll never use.

RicoFast aims for the middle: nine pages that cover what a real SaaS site actually needs, fifteen-plus section components you can mix and match, and a token-based design system that’s documented well enough to extend with confidence.

What’s in the box

• Home, Features, Pricing, Blog, Changelog, About, Contact, Elements, 404 — all wired, all responsive, all dark-mode ready
• A reusable section system: Hero, FeatureGrid, FeatureDetail, Pricing cards, Comparison table, FAQ, Steps, Tech stack, Use cases, FinalCTA
• MDX-powered blog and changelog with sample content (you’re reading one of them)
• A documented design system in docs/DESIGN.md — every color, font, and spacing decision has a token
• An /elements reference page so you always know what’s available before you write new CSS

Built on Astro, not against it

We picked Astro deliberately. It ships zero JavaScript by default, which means your marketing site stays fast even as you add sections. When you need interactivity — a pricing toggle, a mobile menu, an accordion — you add it as a small island, not a global runtime.

The template uses Astro v5’s Content Layer API for blog and changelog, so you’re already on the path Astro is steering toward in v6. No deprecation cleanup later.

Who it’s for

• Indie hackers launching their first product
• AI / developer tool teams who need a credible site by next Tuesday
• Open-source maintainers tired of explaining their project on a README that looks like a 2014 GitHub Pages site
• Design-conscious engineers who can read CSS but don’t want to invent a design system from scratch

What’s next

This is the v1 release. The next milestones on our roadmap:

1. Component variants — three Hero layouts, three Pricing layouts, two Feature gallery styles
2. i18n-ready scaffolding — locale routing patterns you can opt into
3. More live examples — fork-ready demos for the AI tool, dev tool, and OSS use cases

If you build something with it, open an issue on GitHub and tell us what worked and what didn’t. The template gets better every time someone uses it for something we didn’t anticipate.

— The RicoFast team