From Agency Pain to Solo Founder's Hack: I built Astrae to guarantee a high-converting landing page foundation in < 2 hours.

Hey Indie Hackers,

I wanted to share a tool I launched that came directly out of the biggest time-sinks we faced running a small design/dev agency: landing page boilerplate and endless design tweaks.

When you're bootstrapping, your landing page is your pitch deck, and if it doesn't look professional, you lose trust. But spending $5k on custom design or weeks building components (like a perfect Testimonials grid or a fluid Hero section) is painful.

That's why I created Astrae.

It's a library of templates and components built on the stack we all love (Next.js, Tailwind, Framer Motion), but hyper-focused on conversion and trust-building.

Why This Matters to Your Launch:

Time ROI: Skip the entire front-end design/build phase. Go from 0 to a deployed, high-polish Startup or SaaS landing page foundation in a single afternoon.

Visual Trust: Every component (Hero, Feature, CTA) is designed to look expensive and modern, giving you that 'funded startup' look on day one.

Validated Code: This is the exact code we use for paying clients. It's clean, scalable, and built for production.

I'm putting this here because I truly believe it's the fastest way to get to your actual product/market fit testing, rather than spending weeks perfecting CSS.

I'd love your honest feedback on the biggest barrier you face when launching:

Is your biggest hurdle coding the layout (Heros/Footers) or coding the interaction (Framer Motion animations)?

As a bootstrapped founder, is your priority a full template (e.g., the Portfolio template) or individual components (like the CTA blocks)?

Any thoughts on where Astrae fits into your build process?

Thanks for checking it out!

See the templates and components: https://astrae.design/