Ask HN: Cheap options for simple landing page?

#1

Post by unnecessary » Thu, Dec 15, 2016, 6:00 PM UTC

Can anyone recommend cheap and simple SAAS options for a landing page?

I'd like visitors to be able to enter an email address for product availability updates.

I would also like to host it on a custom domain.

Re: Ask HN: Cheap options for simple landing page?

#2

Post by monsieurgaufre » Thu, Dec 15, 2016, 6:37 PM UTC

Github Pages

Re: Ask HN: Cheap options for simple landing page?

#3

Post by vparikh » Thu, Dec 15, 2016, 6:42 PM UTC

Github Pages + Jekyll

Re: Ask HN: Cheap options for simple landing page?

#4

Post by gmemstr » Thu, Dec 15, 2016, 6:44 PM UTC

You could try Carrd, the dev behind it is pretty cool and constantly adding new things. https://carrd.co/

Re: Ask HN: Cheap options for simple landing page?

#5

Post by maxmcd » Thu, Dec 15, 2016, 6:45 PM UTC

Github pages is nice, night be hard to set up email entry for a less-technical user. Most of the non-technical friends I have enjoy using Unbounce.

Re: Ask HN: Cheap options for simple landing page?

#6

Post by jessechahal » Thu, Dec 15, 2016, 6:46 PM UTC

A WYSIWYG open-source tool in development that does exactly this http://launchaco.com/build/

I think it is currently in alpha but it looks pretty good. The creator posted this on hacker news awhile ago.

Re: Ask HN: Cheap options for simple landing page?

#7

Post by rwieruch » Thu, Dec 15, 2016, 7:01 PM UTC

If you want to have more technical control over your page, I can recommend Hugo [1] - a static website generator (free). You don't have to be into HTML/CSS, because they have a handful of themes [2] you can choose from. There exists a technical cheatsheet [3] how you could set it up with GitHub Pages (free) or DigitalOcean. There could be a Hugo theme which already uses e.g. MailChimp [4] as E-Mail service.

[1] https://gohugo.io/ [2] http://themes.gohugo.io/ [3] http://www.robinwieruch.de/own-website-in-five-days/ [4] https://mailchimp.com/

Re: Ask HN: Cheap options for simple landing page?

#8

Post by ripexz » Thu, Dec 15, 2016, 7:06 PM UTC

jessechahal wrote: post #6

A WYSIWYG open-source tool in development that does exactly this http://launchaco.com/build/ I think it is currently in alpha but it looks pretty good. The creator posted this on hacker news awhile ago.