HACKER Q&A
📣 richardreeze

What landing page do you love?


I saw this question today on Indie Hackers and thought it would be interesting to ask the HN community.

For me, the answer would be Stripe Atlas (https://stripe.com/atlas)


  👤 theclaw Accepted Answer ✓
https://www.lingscars.com/ - yes, this is a real car rental business. Best viewed on desktop - the mobile version is not nearly as... potent.

👤 kapilkale

👤 bradchoate
https://panic.com is pretty great and so is the landing page for their upcoming hardware product: https://play.date

👤 thunderbong

👤 Finnucane
>For me, the answer would be Stripe Atlas (https://stripe.com/atlas)

Why? It seems very generic and bland. Or is that the point? Also, it make you scroll through a lot of stuff to find what you are presumably going to the site to find. They bury the important stuff way down at the bottom.

Yeah, most 'landing pages' are pretty useless exercises in annoying your user.


👤 lodi
"Just tell me what the damn thing does."

http://www.tarsnap.com/

(I'm also a happy user!)


👤 ColinWright
None. Absolutely none. I have never "loved" a landing page. They are always too clever, too designed, too cluttered, too austere, too "gorgeous", too self-indulgent, too self-important, etc.

👤 rimliu
The only true and lasting love: https://www.berkshirehathaway.com

👤 criddell
If you have a browser that has flash, then http://www.zombo.com is a good one.

👤 kamranahmedse
Looking at my "Designs" bookmarks folder, half of the websites have been shutdown and the other half I don't "love" any more.

This proves two things for me, design has nothing to do with the success of a product, and the second: design is subjective and changes not only from person to person but also for you, there is an absolute chance that one design that you love now, may hate in future.


👤 tnolet
Notion is great https://notion.so. Will probably rip it off for my company soon.

👤 eat_veggies
Stack Overflow actually has a landing page! Usually your entry point is via a Google search, so you never see it.

https://stackoverflow.com/


👤 dewey
This thread comes up once every month, I'd suggest to go over the past month's threads:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastYear&page=0&prefix=tru...


👤 khaledh
I loved how plain and to the point Magic's original landing page (2015) was:

https://web.archive.org/web/20150313215658/https://getmagicn...

Now it's been redesigned of course:

https://getmagic.com/

But I still prefer the original.


👤 phs318u
about:blank

👤 BlameKaneda
I like the minimalism of Bonsai: (https://www.hellobonsai.com/

👤 open-source-ux
If you're looking for landing page inspiration, here are two sites that collect examples

https://onepagelove.com/

https://www.pages.xyz/


👤 tkainrad
I refurbished the landing page of my personal blog site during the Christmas holidays and have received some very nice feedback: https://tkainrad.dev/

👤 soneca
I struggled to answer that question myself while researching for my own product's landing page.

I decided to go for a very different path and create something that could showcase the product as soon as possible, with simple and objective copy for people who wanted to understand it better.

I do very much love it as it is right now, but of course I am biased, and of course I am open to criticism to improve it. But the principle (clear copy + showcase the product working) I will probably keep.

Here it is to receive your judgement: https://www.quidsentio.com


👤 ryantgtg
This is one I made https://pinballmap.com/

I like it, but I think it would be nicer without the big list of "regional maps" at the bottom. I'm not really sure how best to include that list (users have told us, "list all the regions so I can ctrl-F for them! or else I hate you!"

Next I want to add some stats to the landing page. Like, top 25 pinball machines that are on location. And each one listed would be a link to show that machine on the map.


👤 werber
Honestly, here. I want content instantly

👤 winrid
Self plug - TRYING to finish https://fastcomments.com. Goal for the homepage was something pleasing and simple.

👤 masonic
Craigslist. Easily navigated by topic and by geography.

👤 zeroego
https://www.kickscondor.com/ Can't believe no one has posted this yet.

👤 nottorp
Well, you tell me landing page, I think marketing lies. And stupid responsive design pages that waste 99.95% of the space on my monitor.

How can I love something like that?


👤 Confiks
https://burnout.so is awesome. Fantastic product too; I'm living it.

👤 adrianmsmith
https://www.jooq.org/

- Fast to load

- Tells you what the product does right at the top

- As it's a database library, and there are many other database libraries - the features are written in terms of how the product is different from the competition - goes into

- Code examples pretty soon, so you can really see what using it would be like.


👤 darasan
The new site from The Designer’s Republic is really cool:

https://www.thedesignersrepublic.com/

Love the colors and use of simple animation - really stands out from the bland tech/startup sites we usually see.

Check out the Wipeout icons and typography :-)


👤 kp98
Pitch.com

It is a start up to compete with powerpoint that raised 50 million pre-mvp... yea ... sweet landing page tho


👤 pcarolan
https://www.blackbox.cool/ Is so fun and tells you everything you need to know.

👤 JohnFen
I can honestly say that I've never seen a landing page that I loved. Landing pages are those things that get in the way of what I'm really trying to find.

👤 snicker7
https://python-poetry.org/

I think the snake animation is pretty cool.


👤 jojo_kelly
https://thriva.co/ - I love the layout on this one!

👤 vinrob92
Lots of them on https://www.land-book.com are great.


👤 sys_64738

👤 pythonist

👤 adamonkey

👤 aksss
Https://Drudgereport.com - still king of highly efficient info delivery.

👤 teddyh
xkcd was right about web sites in 2010 (https://www.xkcd.com/773/) and it hasn’t really gotten better since then, either.

👤 jacob_rezi

👤 egypturnash
I love the one on my own website. http://egypt.urnash.com

I haven't changed it since I made it back in 2011, aside from adding links to new projects.


👤 memn0nis
I really like stripe

👤 toberej
privacy.com for sure, super simple and clear.

👤 Indiehacker2
podia.com

👤 baxtr
I think landing pages are overrated. I like good products no matter how they are presented...

👤 Swizec
I’m partial to https://reactfordataviz.com because it’s the best one I ever made and reaches 7th on Google for important keywords even tho it’s a sales page.

I like it because it loads fast, isn’t very designed, and focuses on decent copywriting instead of A/B testing quackery

And it converts well at an average of 50 cents per pageview.

Took about 4 years of customer research and conversations to arrive at that copy.