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Astro Starter for Content Sites That Rank and Get Cited

An Astro starter with five content collections, an answer-first article layout, data cards, a generated llms.txt, an honest sitemap, twelve Cursor rules and the sixteen gates wired in.

In plain words

A ready-made website you copy and fill with your own business: guides, area pages, comparisons, project cards and news, with the search and AI-visibility work already done inside. You change one settings file with your names and places, delete the example pages, add yours. It is free.

Who it is for

What you actually do

  1. Copy the project to your computer
  2. Fill one settings file: your company, market, currency, contact
  3. Delete the demo pages, add your own, put the site online

Free

MIT licence, clone and keep

Get the repository → See the live demo →

What you need before you start

WhatCostWhy
Node.js, version 20 or newer Free You run the site on your own computer before it goes live. Free from nodejs.org.
A hosting account when you are ready to publish Free to start Vercel, Netlify and Cloudflare all host a site this size on their free plan. You can build and preview the whole site without one.
A domain name, only when you want your own address Paid, about 10 to 15 USD a year Bought from any registrar. Until then the free hosting address works.

What you get

How it works

  1. Clone. git clone, npm install, npm run dev.
  2. Make it yours. Edit site.config.mjs and gates.config.json. Delete the demo content. Scaffold pages with npm run new.
  3. Verify and deploy. npm run verify builds and runs the gates. Deploy the dist folder to Vercel, Netlify or Cloudflare Pages.

Install

git clone https://github.com/oper-stack/astro-starter my-site

What it is not for

Why I share this

I sell property to international buyers. It is a niche where a single advertising lead costs more than most products on this page, and where the buyer reads for weeks before writing to anyone. For years the enquiries came from paid ads. Then I built content sites that answer the questions those buyers ask, and the enquiries started arriving on their own: from Google first, then, more and more, from ChatGPT and Perplexity, which quote the pages when someone asks.

The numbers are on the cases page: organic clicks up 279 percent month over month across thirteen brands in more than ten countries, and a brand-new site that reached its first organic traction within six weeks of going live. Every tool on this page is a piece of the pipeline behind those sites, stripped of my data and packaged so you can run it in your own niche: the method for finding what a market actually searches for, the page shapes that get quoted, and the checks that stop a bad page from going live.

I am not a software company. I am an operator who got tired of paying for every lead, and these are the tools I use every week. If they work for you the way they work for me, tell me; if they do not, the refund is seven days and no questions.

Maksim Shchegolev, founder of OperStack · the numbers behind this

Frequently asked questions

Which Astro version?
Astro 7 with the MDX and sitemap integrations, Tailwind 4 for utilities, and two variable fonts. Node 20 or newer.
Can I add a collection?
Three registrations: the schema, the config entry, and a pair of routes copied from an existing collection. The sitemap, llms.txt and the gates follow the config.
Does it include the gates?
The gates run through npx from the npm package; the starter ships the config, the templates and the rules that make pages pass them.
What is the difference from Site Kit?
Site Kit adds the page generator, the niche discovery module, indexing runbooks and support. The starter is the free foundation both share.

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