diff --git a/app/components/no-builds.coffee b/app/components/no-builds.coffee
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..38e3b529
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/components/no-builds.coffee
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+`import Ember from 'ember'`
+
+NoBuildsComponent = Ember.Component.extend()
+
+`export default NoBuildsComponent`
diff --git a/app/styles/app.scss b/app/styles/app.scss
index 764e55ba..dffd6596 100644
--- a/app/styles/app.scss
+++ b/app/styles/app.scss
@@ -57,3 +57,4 @@
 @import "app/layouts/caches";
 @import "app/layouts/getting-started";
 @import "app/layouts/first-sync";
+@import "app/layouts/missing-notice";
diff --git a/app/styles/app/layouts/missing-notice.sass b/app/styles/app/layouts/missing-notice.sass
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d2ec8ed8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/styles/app/layouts/missing-notice.sass
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+.missing-notice
+  text-align: center
+
+  a
+    font-size: 14px
+
+.page-title
+  color: #434343
+  font-size: 36px
+  font-weight: 200
+  line-height: 1
+  margin-bottom: .5em
+
+.page-notice
+  font-size: $font-size-m
+  color: #8d8d8d
+
+.page-graphic
+  width: 80%
+  height: auto
+  max-width: 310px
+  margin: 5.75rem auto 0
+  padding: 0 2em
+  line-height: 0
+  border-bottom: 1px solid #DEDCDB
+  @media #{$medium-up}
+    width: 32%
diff --git a/app/styles/app/modules/buttons.sass b/app/styles/app/modules/buttons.sass
index 4caac525..654b2f20 100644
--- a/app/styles/app/modules/buttons.sass
+++ b/app/styles/app/modules/buttons.sass
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ $button-border-color: #d4d4d4
   text-align: center
   color: $gray-dark-3
   white-space: nowrap
+  border-radius: 2px
 
 .button:hover,
 .button:focus,
diff --git a/app/templates/builds.hbs b/app/templates/builds.hbs
index ec885c71..e9cd7322 100644
--- a/app/templates/builds.hbs
+++ b/app/templates/builds.hbs
@@ -2,6 +2,8 @@
 {{!-- <table id="builds" class="list"> --}}
   {{#each controller as |build|}}
     {{builds-item build=build}}
+  {{else}}
+    {{no-builds}}
   {{/each}}
   {{#if displayShowMoreButton}}
     <p>
@@ -11,6 +13,7 @@
       {{/if}}
     </p>
   {{/if}}
+
 {{else}}
   {{loading-indicator}}
 {{/if}}
diff --git a/app/templates/builds/not-found.hbs b/app/templates/builds/not-found.hbs
index 7fbeea2e..bd2b8add 100644
--- a/app/templates/builds/not-found.hbs
+++ b/app/templates/builds/not-found.hbs
@@ -1 +1 @@
-There are no builds for this repository.
+{{no-builds}}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/app/templates/components/no-builds.hbs b/app/templates/components/no-builds.hbs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..35c85ad0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/templates/components/no-builds.hbs
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+<div class="missing-notice">
+  <figure class="page-graphic">
+    <svg version="1.1" id="Layer_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px"
+       viewBox="0 0 220.5 161.9" enable-background="new 0 0 220.5 161.9" xml:space="preserve">
+    <path fill="#F1EFEF" d="M186.4,161.9c11.4-16.5,18.1-36.5,18.1-58c0-56.5-45.8-102.2-102.2-102.2S0,47.4,0,103.9
+      c0,21.5,6.7,41.5,18.1,58H186.4z"/>
+    <path fill="#DEDCDB" d="M186.4,161.9c11.1-16.1,17.8-35.7,18-56.7H0c0.3,21,6.9,40.5,18,56.7H186.4z"/>
+    <path fill="#D6D2D1" d="M190.6,137.2l-57.9-3.2c-14-0.8-25.6,1.5-25.8,5.1c-0.2,3.6,11.1,7.2,25.1,8l57.9,3.2
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+    <path fill="#3A3532" d="M95.8,138.7c0,0-7.3-16.3-7.7-17.4c-0.9-2.4-3.1-6.3-7.6-6.3c-4.8,0-14.7-0.1-23.8-0.2v0c-0.2,0-0.5,0-0.7,0
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+    <g>
+      <path fill="#E46B25" d="M79.4,127.4c0,0-16.2-88.5-16.8-91.8c-0.5-3.3-1.4-3.1-1.4-3.1s-0.8,0-1.9,0l3.2,105.2
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+      <path fill="#F57E20" d="M51.8,32.6c-1.2,0.2-1.4,3-1.4,3l-17.3,92c0,0,3.2,10.7,23.9,10.5c2,0,3.9-0.1,5.6-0.3L59.3,32.6
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+    </g>
+    <path fill="#FFFFFF" d="M60.3,105.9c-13.3,1.2-21.1-2.5-22.1-5.7l-2.3,12.5c0.4,1.3,1.8,3.6,6.6,5c7.1,2,13.9,2.9,20.1,1.9
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+    </g>
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+    <path fill="#F4F4F4" d="M176,132.9l-13.4-5.6c-3.3,8.6-1,11.4-0.6,11.7c0.2,0.1,0.5,0.1,0.7,0.2c1.8,0.4,3.6,0.9,5.4,1.4
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+    <path fill="#F4F4F4" d="M203.1,144.2l-13.7-5.7c-1.7,4.3-1.8,6.2-1.5,7c0.3,0.1,0.6,0.1,0.8,0.2c0.2,0,0.3,0.1,0.5,0.1
+      c0.4,0.1,0.8,0.2,1.2,0.3c0.4,0.1,0.8,0.2,1.2,0.3c0.1,0,0.2,0,0.2,0.1c0.5,0.1,1,0.3,1.5,0.4c0.2,0,0.4,0.1,0.6,0.1
+      c0.5,0.1,0.9,0.2,1.4,0.3c0.1,0,0.2,0,0.3,0.1c0.3,0.1,0.6,0.1,0.9,0.2c0.3,0.1,0.6,0.2,0.9,0.2c1.6,0.4,3.1,0.8,4.5,1.1
+      c0,0,0,0,0,0C201.8,148.7,201.9,147.2,203.1,144.2z"/>
+    </svg>
+  </figure>
+
+  <h2 class="page-title">No builds for this repository</h2>
+  <p class="page-notice">Want to start testing this project on Travis CI?</p>
+  <a href="http://docs.travis-ci.com/user/getting-started/" class="button button--green">Read the Docs on Getting Started</a>
+</div>
diff --git a/public/images/svg/cones.svg b/public/images/svg/cones.svg
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..500ccbef
--- /dev/null
+++ b/public/images/svg/cones.svg
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
+<!-- Generator: Adobe Illustrator 18.1.1, SVG Export Plug-In . SVG Version: 6.00 Build 0)  -->
+<svg version="1.1" id="Layer_1" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" x="0px" y="0px"
+	 viewBox="0 0 220.5 161.9" enable-background="new 0 0 220.5 161.9" xml:space="preserve">
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diff --git a/tests/unit/components/no-builds-test.coffee b/tests/unit/components/no-builds-test.coffee
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c792f42a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/unit/components/no-builds-test.coffee
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+`import { test, moduleForComponent } from 'ember-qunit'`
+
+moduleForComponent 'no-builds', {
+  # specify the other units that are required for this test
+  # needs: ['component:foo', 'helper:bar']
+}
+
+test 'it renders', (assert) ->
+  assert.expect 2
+
+  # creates the component instance
+  component = @subject()
+  assert.equal component._state, 'preRender'
+
+  # renders the component to the page
+  @render()
+  assert.equal component._state, 'inDOM'