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Does anyone have other splash pages that they think are well designed like About.me's?

dcosson 16y ago
Fork.ly had an awesome splash page before they launched, it was kind of pyramid-scheme-like where the more friends you got to sign up, the higher your priority on their invite list. They talk about it in their blog[1] LaunchRock[2] looks a cool splash page builder that's built around the same idea of being social/viral. It seems like a great strategy, I expect we'll see a lot of new startups adopt something similar. Ironically, LaunchRock hasn't actually launched yet, they're using their own splash page service to launch themselves. [1] http://blog.forkly.com/post/2341870004/a-viral-launching-soon-form http://blog.forkly.com/post/2341870004/a-viral-launching-soo... [2] http://launchrock.com http://launchrock.com
- jschuur 16y ago
  Whenever I see a viral based beta signup referral scheme, I start to wonder if they don't have faith in their app surviving and thriving on it's own merit. I prefer to drag my friends/followers in when I've actually had a chance to see and play with the app, not when there's a pretty logo on the beta signup page.
  - dcosson 16y ago
    I normally do too, but if there's a cool prize at stake I'll happily drag in 3 people on a splash page. Dropbox's +250MB incentive probably got me to invite more friends than I have to anything else (although they do have a great product that I probably would have told people about anyway). Not sure I agree with your first point. Sure, a truly revolutionary product (if those even exist) can gain users organically, but there's nothing wrong with trying to speed up that process. And for every one of those there are a hundred merely good products that can still be successful if marketed well.
rrhoover 16y ago
Fab.com recently talked about their successful splash page/beta approach on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2351894 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2351894
- russjhammond 16y ago
  I had never really thought about having a PR push after you were already up and running but I guess that makes complete sense. Many stores and restaurants open for a week or two and work out the bugs then they have the Grand Opening. My guess is then that this PR launch that builds anticipation with viral techniques is the Grand Opening of this different sites and apps. Thank you all for the suggestions and other articles.

Fork.ly had an awesome splash page before they launched, it was kind of pyramid-scheme-like where the more friends you got to sign up, the higher your priority on their invite list. They talk about it in their blog[1] LaunchRock[2] looks a cool splash page builder that's built around the same idea of being social/viral. It seems like a great strategy, I expect we'll see a lot of new startups adopt something similar. Ironically, LaunchRock hasn't actually launched yet, they're using their own splash page service to launch themselves. [1] http://blog.forkly.com/post/2341870004/a-viral-launching-soon-form http://blog.forkly.com/post/2341870004/a-viral-launching-soo... [2] http://launchrock.com http://launchrock.com

jschuur 16y ago
Whenever I see a viral based beta signup referral scheme, I start to wonder if they don't have faith in their app surviving and thriving on it's own merit. I prefer to drag my friends/followers in when I've actually had a chance to see and play with the app, not when there's a pretty logo on the beta signup page.
- dcosson 16y ago
  I normally do too, but if there's a cool prize at stake I'll happily drag in 3 people on a splash page. Dropbox's +250MB incentive probably got me to invite more friends than I have to anything else (although they do have a great product that I probably would have told people about anyway). Not sure I agree with your first point. Sure, a truly revolutionary product (if those even exist) can gain users organically, but there's nothing wrong with trying to speed up that process. And for every one of those there are a hundred merely good products that can still be successful if marketed well.

rrhoover 16y ago

Fab.com recently talked about their successful splash page/beta approach on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2351894 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2351894

russjhammond 16y ago
I had never really thought about having a PR push after you were already up and running but I guess that makes complete sense. Many stores and restaurants open for a week or two and work out the bugs then they have the Grand Opening. My guess is then that this PR launch that builds anticipation with viral techniques is the Grand Opening of this different sites and apps. Thank you all for the suggestions and other articles.