Maestro

Ship the site. Keep the keys.

Maestro is an Astro starter with Keystatic baked in, so you can launch a content and brand site without building the stack from scratch.

$129 · Pay once. Keep the code. 12 months of updates.

See the live demo →

The live demo home page, running the Saltbox sample brand.

I built Maestro because I kept wanting the same thing on client and personal work: a clean site, a real admin for people who write and update content, and none of the weeks spent wiring CMS, content models, and deploy glue. I wanted to open the repo, put the brand on it, and ship.

That is the job. Not another theme pack. A starting point that already knows how content gets edited.

DsnEngr

Who it is for

Freelancers and small studios who build brand and content sites for clients.
Makers and founders who want their own site without assembling a stack first.
Developers who like Astro and want a CMS that saves to git, not to a database.
Anyone who would rather hand a client an editor than a pull request.

Proof: Saltbox, the included sample

Every copy of Maestro ships with Saltbox, a fictional brand and web studio, so you start from a finished site instead of a blank one. Saltbox, its founders Ada Hart and Sam Okafor, and clients like Tidecraft Ceramics are sample content. They are not customers, and this is not a case study.

A Maestro case study page for Tidecraft Ceramics, a fictional sample client, with a browser and phone mockup of an online pottery shop — A case study page. Tidecraft Ceramics is a fictional client in the sample.

Each case study rolls up into a work index, so the site reads as a body of work from the first deploy.

The Maestro work index with four sample projects: Tidecraft Ceramics, Ember & Oat, North Field Coffee and Loop Cycle Co-op — The work index. Every project and image here is sample content you can replace.

What you walk away with

The full Maestro source: Astro 5 + Keystatic, TypeScript, Content Collections.
Keystatic admin, in local mode or GitHub mode.
Home, About, Contact, Portfolio, Journal, Authors and Topics, all editable.
SEO basics: meta tags, Open Graph, JSON-LD, sitemap, RSS.
Dark and light mode on plain CSS tokens. No CSS framework.
The Saltbox sample brand, to learn from or replace.
Ready to deploy on Vercel.
Lifetime access to the code you receive.
12 months of updates to the repo.
A private GitHub invite to Dsnengr/maestro.

An honest note on the demo

The public demo is browse-only. Keystatic is turned off there, so nobody can edit it. The CMS screenshots below come from a local dev server. After you buy, you run Keystatic on your own machine with npm run dev, or switch it to GitHub mode to edit on your live site.

The Keystatic dashboard listing Maestro pages, posts, portfolio, authors, topics and site settings — The Keystatic dashboard, running locally. Not available on the public demo.

Editing a Saltbox journal post in Keystatic, with the rich text body on the left and title, dates and cover image fields on the right — Editing a journal post in Keystatic, locally.

How it feels day to day

Open /keystatic, change a headline, save. It writes a file in your repo.
Commit and push. Vercel rebuilds. The change is live.
Add a project with a cover, gallery and case study without touching code.
Your client edits in a clean admin. You review the diff.

The offer

$129 USD one-time

Pay once. Keep the code for life. Not a subscription, and access does not expire.
One project license.
12 months of updates to the repo: bug fixes and template improvements. After month 12 you keep the code. Free updates stop unless they are extended later.
Private GitHub collaborator invite to Dsnengr/maestro within 24 hours of your Creem receipt.
Support by email at idsnengr@gmail.com.

How delivery works

1.Pay through Creem checkout.
2.Creem emails you a receipt.
3.Within 24 hours of the receipt, we invite the GitHub account on your receipt email as a collaborator on the private Dsnengr/maestro repo. If your GitHub email is different, reply to the receipt or write to idsnengr@gmail.com.

What it isn't

Not a hosted SaaS. You run it on your own hosting.
Not multi-seat. One license covers one project.
Not Waypost. That is a separate product.
No download portal yet. Access is by GitHub invite.

FAQ

What does one project mean?: You can use Maestro to build one site. That can be your own site or one site for a client. For another site, buy another license.
Can I use it for client work?: Yes. Commercial use is fine for one client project under the one-project license.
How long do updates last?: 12 months of updates from purchase. You keep lifetime access to the code you received; the 12 months is the updates window, not access expiry.
Is Saltbox a real client?: No. Saltbox, Ada Hart, Sam Okafor and Tidecraft Ceramics are fictional sample content that ships with Maestro, so you can see a finished site before you write your own.
Can I try the CMS before I buy?: Not on the public demo. It is browse-only, so the CMS is off there. The CMS screenshots on this page come from a local dev server, which is how you will run it after purchase.
What about refunds?: Email idsnengr@gmail.com and we will sort it out with you.