Ask HN: What's the quickest way to build a landing page?

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I'm assuming the landscape for this has changed a bit since generative AI has blossomed. I know you can grab some premade landing page templates from Tailwind and other UI libraries, but how would you put it together and host it somewhere? What's the "modern" solution for a quick and easy way to generate a nice looking "coming soon" product page?

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Wix, Squarespace, Wordpress

I've actually used all 3 of them and didn't find any of them to be very easy to work with. As a developer, I do enjoy being able to go down to the markup level when I need to, but these platforms seem designed to keep you separated from that as much as possible.

Not opposed to code if that’s what you fancy, from a use case perspective, my suggestions optimize for time to market. Click it, ship it, ship code for product.

I find webflow to be a close approximation to the markup. Unlike other platforms, webflow exposes the underlying markdown from the get go

Find an Astro template you like, ask AI to help you customize it, deploy it to Vercel. Probably would take you half an hour for the first draft.

PS The flip side of this is that nobody will be impressed by it. If it just looks like a generic placeholder, that's what people will assume it is, and they'll just ignore it and move on. Especially on HN.

I build sales funnels for living. Popular ones are HighLevel, ClickFunnels, Kajabi, FlexiFunnels etc.

Webflow is very fast to set up and looks nice.

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