Popular Website Builders – Am I missing something!?
SO, given all the recent buzz, I spent an hour looking at templates from SquareSpace, Weebly, Wix, etc to replace our current crappy https://porterhouse.app landing page, and is it just me or there seems to be very, very few compelling templates for a SAAS?
Just looking for a good hero header, feature list, used-by, testimonials, contact-form, you know, the standard stuff. Something modern and professional to most importantly build trust. But most of the templates on these sites seem tailored to portfolios, events, "coming soon" etc – just found one potential which is https://www.wix.com/website-template/view/html/2904?siteId=100b6f72-68e5-4856-a5d9-2e8c6605cbb3 but that's not really the look I'm going for...
I'm a fullstack dev but I want to pay ~$10/mo to just tweak some colors/graphics/copy and have a compelling landing page, and spend my efforts elsewhere.
If I'm not off on my read of the landscape, perhaps there's a market opportunity here? (Which I'm sure some of you are already tackling 😉)
It's not just you. I haven't been satisfied either and in the last few years have spent weeks looking for good templates.
Result: I said "fuck it, I'll finally learn design" and picked up Refactoring UI which is one of the best books I've read this year.
The authors also have a nice paid collection of templates, although they will not fit every SaaS out there: https://tailwindui.com
@volkandkaya is tackling it, too.
Thanks :)
Give https://versoly.com/ a try we have a lot of SaaS indie hackers using us.
It also comes with a blogging, knowledge base, changelog and careers CMS.
Here's a few to consider:
Wordpress (tons of options to create landing pages)
https://carrd.co/
https://webflow.com/ (already mentioned)
https://dorik.com/
https://www.unstack.com/
Versoly (from @volkandkaya already mentioned)
Unicorn Platform
Versoly generates security errors in certain browsers: https://twitter.com/adamllui/status/1392070810941026304/photo/1
This will not only ruin your brand's reputation, but instill a sense of fear in potential customers. I've never tested dorik, but webflow and unstack as you listed are superb alternatives to avoid inflating your bounce rate that using Versoly will do.
Check out Webflow.com. I've just started using it to rebuild a software site and far like some of the layouts.
We are in early stages and making dynamic builders (Builders should be Role based and Use case based instead of static types with complexities) with a set of components and templates. First we build for our own use case i.e SAAS and would be building for more use casea and industries.
Can help you out if it seems interested.
Here is one template which we used for our own homepage. Can provide a similar template.
www.grorapid.com