Slate
A website template for an indie SaaS pre-launch waitlist
Slate is the pre-launch waitlist surface. Restrained, technical, monospaced — the visual register indie-SaaS founders use when their audience is other engineers. Near-black background, a single mint accent, Inter body, JetBrains Mono eyebrow labels. No product screenshots needed: the hero carries a small mock built entirely from type and icons, so there is no image asset to shoot, host or keep current.
Who Slate is for
Built for these, and tested against them.
- Indie-SaaS founders pre-launch (1–3 months before shipping)
- Developer-tool waitlists (CLI, IDE plugin, infra, observability)
- AI-product waitlists targeting technical buyers
- Solo-founder side projects building toward a public launch
- Beta-access lists for products still under NDA
What’s included
Everything below ships with the template, already filled in.
- Pages
- 1 page, written and laid out
- Enquiries
- A working form — messages land in your Sitelas inbox
- Type
- Inter · dark theme
- Everywhere
- Built and checked at phone, tablet and desktop widths
- Yours to change
- Every colour, word and photograph — in the editor or by asking an AI agent
About This Template
Capture interest before the product exists
Single-screen scroll
Four sections, one page. The hero and its email form land above the fold on any laptop. The feature trio describes the product in three short cards. A text-only backed-by strip carries trust with no logo files. A closing CTA repeats the form for anyone who scrolled, and a minimal footer closes. Visitors decide in under 30 seconds whether to drop an email.
Newsletter-signup conversion
The entire page funnels to one form, and it appears twice — in the hero and in the closing CTA — writing to the same place. Form submissions land in the Sitelas inbox; add a webhook in the form's settings to forward them to your email tool (via Zapier or a direct webhook) once the audience is real.
When to pick something else
Slate is the wrong template for these. Where there is a better one, it is linked.
Free to use · No credit card required
- 1Opens in the editor with the starter content in place
- 2Change the words and pictures to yours
- 3Publish to a sitelas.com address, or your own domain
Key Highlights
Questions about Slate
Can I change how Slate looks?
All of it. Colours, type, spacing, photographs and every word are yours to edit — in the visual editor, or by asking an AI agent to do it for you. Nothing is locked.
Do I need to know how to code to use Slate?
No. You edit the page by clicking the thing you want to change. There is no code to write and nothing to install.
What does Slate cost?
Nothing to start, and there is no trial clock. A free site runs on a sitelas.com address; Pro is $9 a month per site when you want your own domain, analytics and more room.
Can I use my own domain?
Yes, on Pro. Point your domain at the site and SSL is issued automatically — there is no certificate to buy or renew.
Make Slate yours
It opens in the editor with every page already written. Change what you want, publish when it reads like you.
Free to use · No credit card required
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