Hi, I’m Lauro Guedes
I’m a software engineer who enjoys turning ideas into practical products and publishing reusable open-source work. This site is where I keep the templates and starter kits I build — Astro themes, Laravel starter kits and self-hosted tools.
Most of them are free and open source: clone the repository, read the source, change what you need. A few are paid, and those are marked with a price. Either way the source is yours to own — there is no hosted builder, no dashboard to log into and no account to maintain.
You can find the rest of my work on lauroguedes.dev, on GitHub, or on LinkedIn.
What you’ll find here
Landing pages and marketing sites. Landpack for technical projects that have outgrown a README, and Mobi Launch for app launches that need a waitlist rather than a full marketing site.
Portfolios and personal sites. Bloomfolio for a full portfolio with blog, projects and work history; Aboutial when a single well-made about page is enough.
Starter kits for real applications. The Mary UI Laravel Starter Kit gives you authentication, user management and roles on the first install. Laravel SSO goes further: a complete OpenID Connect provider you run yourself.
Experiments worth keeping. AEON / SPACE is a cinematic editorial template built around typed content collections, and WallAI is a self-hosted AI wallpaper generator that installs in three commands.
How these are built
The Astro templates use Astro with TypeScript and Tailwind CSS, usually with DaisyUI, and a small amount of React only where interactivity earns the JavaScript. Content lives in Markdown or YAML and is validated with Zod schemas at build time, so a missing image or a malformed entry fails in development rather than in production.
The Laravel starter kits use Laravel with either Livewire or Inertia and Vue, Tailwind CSS, and Pest for tests.
Every template lists its exact stack on its own page.
About this site
This site is itself one of the templates. It runs on Templix, which you can buy and use for your own marketplace.
It is built with Astro and deployed to Cloudflare Workers. Content is managed through Keystatic, a Git-based CMS with a visual editor at /keystatic — every edit is committed as a file in the repository, so the content is version-controlled alongside the code. Markdoc powers the rich template descriptions.
Ratings are collected with a lightweight browser fingerprint and a cooldown period, and written straight into each template’s frontmatter. There is no database and no backend to operate.
Built on open source
These templates stand on a lot of other people’s work. Thanks to the maintainers of Astro, Laravel, React, Vue, Tailwind CSS, DaisyUI, Keystatic and the many other projects that make this possible.
Get in touch
Found a bug, or something in a template is unclear? Open an issue on that template’s GitHub repository — it is the fastest route to an answer and it helps whoever hits the same thing next.
For anything else, you can reach me at laurowguedes@gmail.com.
