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Put up a page now. Someone actually made a project specifically for collecting emails on a teaser page but i cant remember the name, perhaps someone can help me

Put up a page now. Someone actually made a project specifically for collecting emails on a teaser page but i cant remember the name, perhaps someone can help me out. It also worth exploring a test adwords campaign to see how much interest you can get to validate your idea, it also helps build buzz.

thetylerhayes 16y ago
Along the lines of testing, you can do no better than Performable (http://performable.com http://performable.com) for A/B testing of landing pages. Also, read their blog. It answers OP's question, and so many more. As for collecting emails on a landing page, MailChimp (http://mailchimp.com http://mailchimp.com) is the best service I can think of for capturing emails in a CAN-SPAM-compliant fashion and look good while doing it. Campaign Monitor (http://campaignmonitor.com http://campaignmonitor.com) is pretty good, too.
guynamedloren 16y ago
Thanks for the advice. I would love to see that project if anyone can find a link. As for idea validation, I'm not sure how necessary that is in this case. No new technology or space-age innovation here. My idea is ridiculously simple and has been done a thousand times over, in one way or another. There is a huge market, but I think the big players are doing it all wrong. I'm borrowing a piece of advice from 37signals to "underdo the competition". As a consumer, I absolutely hate all of the current options in this app space (too complicated, too ugly, too many useless features, etc) so I've decided to go about building my own app to meet my own needs. I'm operating under the assumption that there must be at least somebody else out there with needs on par with my own needs. Worst cast scenario is that I end up as the only and a hell of a lot more coding experience than I started with (zero). Which would be totally okay with me.
grk 16y ago
The OP is using Rails, so probably the easiest solution would be to use https://github.com/johngrimes/t-minus https://github.com/johngrimes/t-minus.

thetylerhayes 16y ago

Along the lines of testing, you can do no better than Performable (http://performable.com http://performable.com) for A/B testing of landing pages. Also, read their blog. It answers OP's question, and so many more. As for collecting emails on a landing page, MailChimp (http://mailchimp.com http://mailchimp.com) is the best service I can think of for capturing emails in a CAN-SPAM-compliant fashion and look good while doing it. Campaign Monitor (http://campaignmonitor.com http://campaignmonitor.com) is pretty good, too.

guynamedloren 16y ago

Thanks for the advice. I would love to see that project if anyone can find a link. As for idea validation, I'm not sure how necessary that is in this case. No new technology or space-age innovation here. My idea is ridiculously simple and has been done a thousand times over, in one way or another. There is a huge market, but I think the big players are doing it all wrong. I'm borrowing a piece of advice from 37signals to "underdo the competition". As a consumer, I absolutely hate all of the current options in this app space (too complicated, too ugly, too many useless features, etc) so I've decided to go about building my own app to meet my own needs. I'm operating under the assumption that there must be at least somebody else out there with needs on par with my own needs. Worst cast scenario is that I end up as the only and a hell of a lot more coding experience than I started with (zero). Which would be totally okay with me.

grk 16y ago

The OP is using Rails, so probably the easiest solution would be to use https://github.com/johngrimes/t-minus https://github.com/johngrimes/t-minus.