Ask HN: Feedback on SaaS marketing sites as a service
Hi HN, I'm launching a new service next year for hosting marketing sites for SaaS products.
It's a lot of work to design, build and maintain a marketing site for a product, in addition to building your actual product and selling it. I was surprised that the only alternatives are Wordpress and generic site builders, nothing specifically for SaaS products.
So I decided to build one. If you run a SaaS product and want to give it a go, sign up here - http://gini.io/saassites
If you have any questions or feedback, please comment here or email me.
Thanks!
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"SaaS marketing site": This won't make sense to most users hitting the landing page. Why? The answer is in my last sentence. "Landing Page" or "Product website" should be in there (or any other words that explain what your site is going to do, better than what you've explained currently).
Show some pictures below the signup that can pop-up. People love pictures and if you have 2 eye-catching photos of product sites for SaaS businesses, this will increase sign-up potential as there is evidence of what can be done
"Sign up" button: Maybe alter the colour of the button a bit so that it stands out against the rest of the page. It will also direct eyes to it.
You can easily edit in a WYSIWYG interface, no need for code or Wordpress knowledge.
Then you can focus more on things like A/B testing.
Does that make it clearer?
You've got a misspelling of January on your web page.
What makes this different from SquareSpace?
This app is essentially a specialised version of Squarespace, designed only for SaaS products. I haven't seen any Squarespace templates for SaaS. Yes you could hack together one, but the whole point is to make it instant.
Once the basic site is there, I can add more SaaS-specific integrations like subscription billing, lifecycle marketing, metrics, etc.
It is interesting that the first module you plan to build is the marketing site. I may have started with something more core to the SaaS experience. But then again, you might be correct in doing so.
You also do not need to build all the parts of the ecosystem yourself. You could integrate with apps that provide very specific SaaS services like baremetrics for saas metrics, getdrip for lifecycle emails etc