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Background: my co-founder and I built splashgen because we were building many simple landing pages to validate ideas quickly. We're both developers, and didn't
by traviskaufman 5y ago
Background: my co-founder and I built splashgen because we were building many simple landing pages to validate ideas quickly. We're both developers, and didn't want to use (or pay for) Unbounce or Carrd. We also didn't want to copy/paste HTML templates around; that felt too cumbersome. What we did want was to be able to programmatically describe a landing page and have it be generated for us. Hence splashgen.
Ask: *if you're a developer that needs to spin up a site to validate an idea quickly, why would/wouldn't you use this?* Your feedback will help us improve the product and decide if it's something we want to expand upon. Thanks!
- mritchie712 5y agoNice job. I'd add an integration or two to the example page at https://splashgen.sh/ https://splashgen.sh/ (e.g. a form).
- traviskaufman 5y agoThanks! Great suggestion. We have a mailchimp one on https://zenweb.dev https://zenweb.dev (another idea we had) but having it on the actual splash page would show it off better.
- serjester 5y agoWhy wouldn't I use this? I've built enough validation sites like this that I bought a React boilerplate project. From there changing the text and deploying to Heroku or Vercel takes me an hour or two. I like the idea but I'd get worried about using something that's not extensible. I don't want to have to shoot down ideas on website improvements from the non technical folks strictly because I'm limited by the framework I used. Just me though.
- traviskaufman 5y agoGreat feedback regarding extensibility. I'm curious what caused you to build a bunch of validation sites like this? Similar scenario to us maybe?