Show IH: Awesome landing page generator for startups
Happy Monday, everyone! I just launched my first software product, Everpage!
It lets you generate beautiful landing pages and download the code. No signup required unless you want to download your site. :)
I come from an engineering/design/startup background, and I thought that people were leaving a lot of money on the table with poorly designed landing pages (i.e. not mobile friendly, slow, or bad design). So I made this.
Let me know what you like, dislike, or want me to add.
app.everpage.io/start (no registration required to try)
This is awesome @Zeph thanks for providing this type of service. I'm "that" person that leaves a lot of money on the table with a crappy designed landing page.
Thanks, @vez1132! I used to be that kind of person, too — I spent way more time on the product than the marketing materials. Nowadays I'm trying to aim for a nice balance.
Nicely done Mark! Really cool that your landing page is implemented into the editor :)
Thanks Davis! That was really fun to do. :)
Wow great work. You should be charging money for this!
Well, he is, $87/y :)
Very nice. I really like how there's a starter template ready to go. Will have to try this out for my next project.
Sweet, and thanks for the feedback! Let me know if you do :)
This is fantastic. It would be super nice if you could host it too!
Hey Darius, thanks a lot!
I agree with you on hosting. I'd like to add it after I get some more customers.
Omg, this is so cool. Going to recommend this to all the clients I write for!!!!!!!!!! I wish I knew about this before I bought the godaddy website builder LOL
Thank you so much Veronika! Please do :)
Looks great! As I understand you want to make it even easier than instapage and others (I mean the process of creating landing page)? ;)
Thanks, @Matt_Growth_Hacker! You are correct.
Awesome Mark! Best of luck and I'm sure this will blow up.
Hey Ahmed, thanks a lot! I really appreciate it.
Damn! This looks pretty sweet! I will give it a shot tonight and report back. Congrats on the launch!
Hey, thanks a lot @tekeste! Excited to hear what you think.
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On a serious note, I was looking for something like this and this is perfect! I want to make a landing page for JSUI and I didn't have time to do it from scratch.
I have one suggestion: add a "flip image and text" option for the "single feature" section.
Thanks for this tool!
Of course!
When you're editing the Single Feature section, there's a set of arrows under the preview image that allows you to flip the image and text. :)
Edit: I'll be adding more designs for this section in the near future, too. If there's something else you want, let me know!
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I needed this like YESTERDAY! Way to go!
Ha, thanks a lot Joe! Your product sounds super cool, do you have a mailing list somewhere that I could join?
I know I know.... mailing list. Need. To. Find. Time. <lame faced excuse>
Really nice! I like your approach of providing a populated template ready for users to customise rather than starting from pure blank canvas. Was something you decided on based on feedback from users?
Did you build from scratch? I’d be interesting to know technically how you approached the build if you’re happy to share?
I saw that you're planning on building a site builder as well – good luck! The world needs better web tooling.
Great question! I have previous experience designing high-converting landing pages, and that structure (plus or minus a few sections depending on your copywriting) converts well across the board.
I also think it removes a lot of friction to actually using the product. I don't want you to have to research or think too hard, as the heavy lifting has already been done. You just need to add in your content and tweak the design to fit your liking.
Yep, I built it from scratch with React. It's a single page progressive web application, and I didn't use any frameworks (the resulting sites are tiny in filesize, they don't even need JavaScript).
Edit: I also need to give MobX a shoutout. I love you, MobX.
I took advantage of CSS3 to handle animation, transforms, and grid systems. As a result of being a progressive web app, you can actually navigate the app, make sites, and download them while offline (as long as you're logged in first). It also works awesome on mobile devices and can be added to the homescreen like a standalone app.
Site builders have a lot of moving parts. I would definitely recommend mapping out all the UI, planning your project structure and each feature, and revising fast and often as you continue building. Talk with customers and think about their user flow, responsive design, how you teach them to use the product, etc.
Thanks for the insights!
Totally agree on your first point, I think a blank canvas can be dangerous sometimes, allowing users to add all the things at once can lead to poorly structured and difficult to understand content.
Am I right that you can create a single page at the moment? Really like the mobile experience, very slick and didn't realise it could work offline! Check out css custom properties for updating properties on the fly (font's, colours etc).
My background is as a designer so I'm cool with creating the UX - it's the tech that scares me :)
Nice! I think that, as a designer, you're in a great position to tackle this kind of project. And there are a lot of different approaches you can take to solve the technical problems, so don't overthink it and just start!
And you're correct – you can create a single page at the moment. (Well, technically, unlimited single pages.) I could add support for multiple pages in less than a week if people start to request it.
Testing on Mobile and couldn't get past enter a name and hit enter, will check it out when I'm on the desktop - looks promising based on all these reviews!
Are you in the same space as Unbounce and the others?
Aw, I'm sorry! What device/browser were you using? I'll try to get that fixed.
I'd say I'm in the same space as companies like Launchaco and Landen — focused on serving startups and entrepreneurs. A/B testing is definitely something I'd like to add in the future, too. :)
iOS 11.4 / Safari
Cheers, I'd definitely want to try it out! BRB 🚀
Hi Mark,
I'm one of the ones that actually wanted to used this - for real.
Pros - it's kinda' awesome, what I've tried, works quite cool!
Cons - I'm NEVER gonna pay $87/y from the beginning. Sure, I may want a landing page, and your site works, and that's cool. But I'd like some monthly pricing. I understand your wish to make $87 from the get-go, but definitely not right now - you just got started, and there's A LOT MISSING. I mean, for that money, I want more customization - I want a call to action on every feature, just for starters.
The fact that on the image, it's 400 x 300, made me go insanely ballistic. REALLY? I've done my ALL my screenshots (lots of them - even gifs) at 16:9 and now i need to convert them? Are you kidding me? And then you want $87/y?
At this point, you definitely lost me as a customer.
P.S. I will need quite a bit of landing pages in the near future. I will need a lot of A/B testing, to see what actually works for me. I wanted to use your site to generate a dummy page (for now), for people on IH to give me feedback.
Ideally, here's what I want - basically, what you have as "single feature", to be able to have this for several features as a carousel. Again, you've lost me with your pricing.
#1, wow, this makes you very angry! #2, you don't need to use 400x300 images, that's just a loose recommendation that some early testers wanted. Any size will work, as long as it's not something bizzare like 2000x100.
I would be happier with a monthly billing model too. That's a longer term goal. Because every site is downloadable right now, a monthly billing model would technically let people pay a few dollars and walk away with unlimited sites. It doesn't make business sense until I build out the infrastructure to prevent that.
I'll be adding more carousel items soon.
That's okay. I'm not sure they'll have everything you're looking for, but you could try launchaco.com or landen.co. They are also landing page solutions run by indie hackers.
Hi Mark,
about 400x300 images. Basically, any image I upload, will end up with 4:3 ratio.
About the monthly billing -> you can do several things, I would be happy to pay for per landing page. So you can choose - either yearly, or per landing page. Basically, I was really unhappy to have spent so much editing, lets say, making my site, and then having a single option -> pay $87/y. Had I known first hand, I simply would have not done it.
about carousel -> sounds cool!
Love this. Any interest in white labeling for a specific use/user base with a different template type? See some real potential with that model. If so, shoot me an email, in my profile.
Huh, this is interesting! I'll think about it.