Do you miss some features from landing page builders compare to custom coded one ?
Hi Indie Hackers,
1. Do you miss some features from landing page builders compare to custom coded one ?
Examples I have in mind are:
- custom metrics about visitor behaviors
- demo app integration for saas products
- custom chatbot integration to help/guide visitors
- complex animation
- lower hosting cost
2. If you are building landing pages from scratch, why did you made that choice ?
I'm building tools to help building landing pages and I'm wondering if generating landing page code is a viable solution over integrating with other landing page builders (if they provide an api).
Biggest feature I missed was a code editor.
So I built it :) https://versoly.com/
Also do you have an API to build websites automatically? Do you know if your concurrent does?
I'm working on tools focused on building landing page and websites content and I would like to connect with other page builders to generate the website from the content.
We're looking at adding an API, but unless a good amount of customers want it or it will help with growth it won't be built soon.
Not sure of many website builders with API, I know WP and Ghost has one.
Webflow allows you to add data with an API and they render dynamic pages.
Yes I didn't found any (appart from the self hosted solution like wordpress). Who provide an API.
Webflow provide an API for the CMS but not for building the pages.
Thanks for your answer !
Do you know what kind of work you usually do that the UI can't do when you jump into the code editor?
Being able to do custom HTML/CSS/JS is my primary choice when choosing a page builder ;)
At the start nearly everything, but we're slowly adding stuff that is very useful.
For now we still add dropdown menus in the code editor and some responsive stuff that bootstrap doesn't have.
Other folks have added galleries, importing custom HTML (like calendars and forms) using the code editor.
Thanks,
As I understand now it's more for integrating third party libraries into the pages.
A few freelance developers have used the code editor to build something a little more unique by using CSS.