A landing page with an email form

Like @ayushn21 mentioned, I too have a project that just stores emails in my database to later import into some email service later. For that project, that works really well.

Hey @Tirex, we went through two waves of launching SeriousGamesJobs (https://www.seriousgamesjobs.com/)- the first wave used the basic LaunchRock service behind a Reddit ad campaign. It's really quick, as well as being free- a downside I haven't seen talked about here though is that there's no service to verify the emails which do come in. I would later learn it's also not possible to use SSL with LaunchRock, so people might feel less comfortable entering their details.

At the point of the second wave, I had a domain, hosting (If you haven't seen it already, check out https://lowendstock.com/) and custom landing page. I also enrolled in Sendgrid's free plan and manually imported email addresses collected earlier, which allowed the site to do three important things;

1. Add a Captcha! This was important because the signal to noise ratio on Reddit ads is quite poor (though I do still recommend trying them out) and forum spam bots are likely going to add themselves to unguarded lists. The captcha really improved things and our open/bounce ratios got far better.

2. Send an automated reply to new users once they did sign up via the marketing automation feature. Also serves as a quick way to identify if a new address is bouncing, though doesn't go quite as far as properly verifying it.

3. Create a nice widget to embed within our landing page. I know some developers find iFrames really distasteful but it's gotten the job done in a way I'm pleased with.

Hi @Tirex! I'm using EmailOctopus and I'm really happy with this service. It's free up to 2500 subscribers or 10 000 emails/month. They provide a few options for the email collection:

• Hosted - Generate a subscription form that you can link to.
• Embedded - Generate code to embed a subscription form on any site.
• WordPress - Use our official plugin to add a subscription form to your WordPress site.

At my website I'm using the customized hosted form with custom CSS.

If you would like to check it out here's the referral link with 15$ bonus: https://emailoctopus.com/?urli=5mTcC. Note: I'll receive $15 discount as well.

Check out formspree.io — It has some essential integrations (Google spreadsheets, MailChimp and Zapier to name a few). It's free to use with limits. It's cheap to get started ($10/mo for 1k submissions; $40/mo for 5k) especially if you're using it for multiple websites.

Also, if you have a static site and host it with netlify, you can use netlify forms for $0 (provided you aren't going to get more 100 submissions/site/mo). $99/mo will give you unlimited submissions.

Webflow, and use their form feature to get the submitted form data in excel.

A Squarespace site with a contact form on it may be all you need if you need something simple where you don't want to design or code anything yourself.

When I launched Chapter24 (https://chapter24.app) in beta, the landing page was a brief intro about the product and an email field to be notified about the launch.

I'd used Rails to build the product so I just created a table in the database for pre-launch subscribers and saved all the email addresses there. Seemed like the easiest way for me since I had the email infrastructure already set up for the product.

Depending on your use case though you might be looking for an off-the-shelf product. I've heard ConvertKit is pretty good for something like this but never used it so can't comment.