Building my personal website. Where to look for inspiration?
Hello friends,
I am building my personal website.
It'll be a brain dump database to house my - writings, projects, working notes and thoughts on SaaS product marketing.
Need design inspiration that could help me build a neat / no-fuss website.
Please recommend some personal websites that you guys follow in product & marketing space?
Below is my shortlist so far..
Looking for help. Thanks in advance.
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I took some great inspiration from the personal websites of these people:
Rob hope - https://robhope.com/
Josh Pigford (founder of BareMetrics) - https://joshpigford.com/
Jen Yip (founder of Lunch Money) - https://lunchbag.ca
Here is my personal site, where I think I have very similar goals to you: https://frostbutter.com
Another great (and free) resource I use for good page designs:
OnePageLove and EmailLove - both are amazing products from Rob Hope
Thanks a lot @nickfrosty - I really liked your UI. What did you use to build your site?
Thanks! I custom built my site with as a Nuxt site on the front end, using the "nuxt content" module for the blog/articles to make them markdown driven. Then tailwind css for the styling, with some custom stuff in their. I really like my site in dark mode especially, but right now it only does auto detection to enable/disable dark mode. No manual toggle.
Got it. Can you suggest some no-code static site generators? I am hands on with webflow - but I feel it is an over-kill for a personal website.
I was thinking of using notion with super.so
However, it would be great to have recommendations on some good no-code static site generators. :)
I have not used a lot of no code tools, since I like to develop my own stuff.
I would recommend potion.so if you are looking to built on top of notion. It's built by a fellow IndieHacker @noahwbragg
Thanks @nickfrosty. I will reach out to @noahwbragg as well.
Awesome!
I like personal websites that are very open about what they're doing. A list here:
And my own :) nuvic.co
Hey @nuvic - your website looks great. Did you build it in notion & super ?
Thanks! It's built using the static site generator 11ty with the Edward Tufte theme.
@nuvic - Thanks a lot for sharing man. 11ty is new to me - will check this out.
These are some I like:
Exactly what I was looking for.
https://trojanczyk.eu/ - This is mine, but I don't know if it's suitable as a source of inspiration.
I'm aggregating articles that I enjoy writing (the Polish version of the site has more of them because not all of them are translated yet). I have an "about me" tab and a dedicated tab for the open-source tool I'm developing.
In the Polish version, I also conduct interviews with various people known in our country's business environment.
not saying mine is particularly great, but it has what you're looking for: ethansteininger.com
@beefin - Thanks for sharing Ethan. Your website actually looks great. What did you build it on?
In college, I got some inspiration from https://www.bestfolios.com/home .
It's more catered towards UX and design though.
Thanks a lot for sharing. I am looking more for function & structure, less for design.
Something like sriramk.com
I like dribbble.com, there are thousands of posts to get inspiration from
Hey @brunocalou,
Thanks for the suggestion. I am actually looking less for design and more for structure.
Such that information architecture is no-fuss and minimalist.
I made a post about useful tools to find website inspirations. Check it out on my profile it might help.
Thanks @Jorsoi
That's really kind of you. I will check and revert on this.