Ask HN: What's your preferred email signup method?

No, definitely use Mailchimp over rolling your own. It will save you time and what they offer for free before having to pay is fantastic.

Although I haven't used the other two suggestions, both look to offer great tools to go even further than just collecting the address.

I myself am doing the same thing right now, just looking for a good way to promote sharing of the page after someone signs up. I want to incentivize people to share with friends by some sort of affiliate program.

I sometimes feel like a salesman for Unbounce (I actually don't have any business relationship with them): http://www.unbounce.com

Very cool landing page / lead capture app they have going. AB testing baked right in.

One method is to use LaunchRock, never tried it myself though. But they have some nice-looking designs: http://launchrock.co/

Very cool. I'll check it out.