I often have new ideas for which I want to set up a landing page quickly.
Usually, these are just static pages with an email newsletter box and Google Analytics for validation. Ideally, this should be a 3-step process:
- Pick a name, buy domain
- Design landing page
- Launch
The reality though is quite different for me. Here are all the steps I usually take:
- Pick a name, buy domain
- Create a new free email account for said domain (so people can contact me @newdomainname)
- Link domain to new email account, wait for DNS changes to propagate
- Set up SPF+DKIM for the new email
- Create a new project with a static site generator (I use Hugo)
- Pick a Hugo template
- Design the page/customize the template
- Add simple Terms of Service/Privacy Policy
- Set up a new Mailchimp free account with the new email from above
- Link the domain with Mailchimp, set up SPF, DKIM
- Create and integrate the Mailchimp signup form
- Set up a new Google Analytics account with the new email address from above
- Integrate Google Analytics
- Set up a new Firebase hosting project
- Link the new domain, wait for DNS to propagate
- Deploy the static site to Firebase
The nice thing about this is that everything is free, except for the domain. But it does take a long time and a lot of steps, usually this takes me a few days. Another problem is that I often have to wait for DNS changes to propagate, so I often get blocked. Is there a faster way?
I would look at https://carrd.co/.
If you plan on launching a SaaS landing page :), then I would
We plan on adding analytics inside Versoly so in the future you can skip Google analytics as well.
I also have way too many email address so I wouldn't set another up until later on.
Hey, seems you edited your comment, but before, you were suggesting Versoly (you're the founder according to your profile). FYI, I actually tried to sign up for an account, but I just kept getting the same error:
pq: value too long for type character varying(30). Might want to look into that.Interesting, we seem to have emails limited to 30 chars :)
Thanks for the bug report.
Will be fixed shortly.
Thanks for your suggestion!