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Does anyone else just absolutely love Carrd for landing pages?

Main Street is worth $500M. They find tax credits for startups, and this link will let you learn more. (I signed up for it yesterday and our business got like $8k of tax credits back.)

Anyway, they got to this mega valuation with a very simple 1-page site that included

  • What it is.
  • How it works.
  • Why it works.
  • Customer testimonials

They just did a kickass site overhaul. But, it used to look like this--courtesy of the wayback machine.

So, in the spirit of not reinventing the wheel (and helping anyone can get started without very much effort or time), I made a template of Main Street's site so that anyone can make a 1-page site in 1-hour.

On Carrd.

I love using Carrd for simple one-page sites. I can't imagine using anything else.

So, I'm calling the template CarrdThemes if you'd like to check it out.

I just posted it on Product Hunt, too, if you'd like to give it a gander there.

If you need help getting started making it, just lemme know. I'd be happy to lend a hand.

Or, just pick a time from my calendar on the link.

on February 5, 2021
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    In a way, it reminds me of this.

    https://html5up.net/

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      yup, that's also made by carrd's maker @ajlkn

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        Wow. I've been shilling this site for years. No wonder.

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      how do I add the free theme on carrd?

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      Hey thanks for sharing! This is super neat.

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      This comment was deleted 6 years ago

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    Smart move.

    You got my upvote.

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      Hey thanks @meydjer!

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    Umm.. https://try.carrd.co/ws8zydy3/ this url didn't work for me. But you probably have it up on https://carrdthemes.com/ Is that it?

    Font sizes can probably be tweaked a bit to make it better. Right now it looks a bit odd to me eyes.

    Selling templates a cool idea nonetheless. I brought it up right when Carrd allowed transfer of templates, that this will become a thing in coming times. Fast forward few years, and I have seen several examples by now.

    How do you handle the transfer once the payment is made? Manually?

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      Hey Ashish! Yes, it's the exact same link on the CarrdThemes site. (It just worked for me, but sorry you're having a hard time w/ that link.)

      I think that you're definitely right that Carrd will soon have some sort of native marketplace. I think it's only a matter of time, and I think it's such a better out-of-the-box solution for first-time makers. Like, Squarespace and WordPress are fine alternatives, but they both have steep learning curves for folks who have never done anything like it.

      I've got a tiny group of customers so far (just 8), but yes I've been transferring manually. So, when someone pays and signs up for Carrd, I make a copy of the page and transfer it to their account.

      If you happen to need help getting started w/ the template (or just Carrd, in general), I'd be happy to lend a hand.

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        cool cool, whipping out complete LPs for clients can be another productivized service option, just throwing it out there. Can't help myself imagining possibilities :)

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          Oh indeed! Currently, I'm in the process of whipping up two today actually. Carrd has provided me a lot of weekend project fun :)

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            nice! good luck & have fun :)