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What's the best SaaS landing page you've seen recently?

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We are getting ready for launch next week and I'm redoing our landing page. What's the best SaaS landing you've seen recently?

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The only thing i can comment on this question is that there is an illness of very bad landing/home pages where it is absolutely not possible to understand what a service or product is or does. people who make these are perfectly familiar with their own work but people who have not heard or seen it will have a very different view. So i would not care about the landing page per se, but i would definitely care about clearly communicating what you are actually selling. Don't try to be clever, be very specific, clear and boring. Explain what it is you or your product does in clearest and shortest possible way. Then go on an expand on why it is better than the competition or what makes it different.

Few bad examples:

MySql home page does not explain a single thing, it only says "The world's most popular open source database". If you have never heard about it, you will have no clue what the product is or does. All it says is that it is some kind of database and that it probably is liked by people.

MongoDB home page "Build faster. Build smarter. " - yeah, no freaking clue what it is or does.

Google Cloud: "The new way to cloud starts here" ... ah, ok...

JetBrains: "IntelliJ Platform. Open Source Platform for Building IDEs and Developer Tools" - how am i supposed to understand that it actually IS an IDE? They don't tell me that.

And there are endless examples of very bad landing pages out there. So make clear and concise communication the utmost priority. When you are done, ask friends and family, someone who has no knowledge of the product/service or even better is not in tech altogether(a normie) and let them tell you what they think you are selling.

If I need to contact sales to see pricing information, it’s an immediate pass for me.

Pretty sure that's by design. You filter them out, they filter you out.

Not recent, but I really like the Notion landing page: https://www.notion.so/

It's clear and to-the-point while still being reasonably detailed and informative. I get a clear idea of what the product is just scrolling down, reading left to right, with clear text and graphics and organization and no unnecessary distractions. It really hits that balance between "professional" and "beautiful" for me, and I don't feel either talked down to or overzealously marketed to. It's just a clear picture of what they offer, with clear pricing, all in a nice presentation.

(I'm not even a customer of theirs, since I usually join companies that have already decided on their own web office stack. But I just remember their landing page for being nice.)

I listed three startups for the week, after reviewing many last week and all of them had nice landing page.

See post here https://seedstage.shedtheshade.blog/news-and-trends-this-wee...

Not something I’ve seen recently, but Carrd’s landing page is stuck in my mind as a great example of a landing page. It’s beautiful, to the point, and provides immediate access to a demo, without the need to create an account.

You can see for yourself: https://carrd.co/

Don’t require a login for a demo and make sure you have a demo. Maddie pricing explicit.

Worry about the look and feel second, but also worry about it

https://frankenphp.dev/

Is probably the best I've seen.

https://grafana.com/ One of the better website I’ve seen in a while

I like the option to choose between the "Fun" or "Serious" copy.

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