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I'm a fan of simplicity, so https://www.uber.com/, https://www.dropbox.com/, and https://www.airbnb.com/

If you want to read more about the design process for dropbox's homepage the designer wrote about it here: http://byalicelee.com/dropbox/#homepage

It's cool seeing the initial sketches and the other variants of the page they had considered.

That was from a previous redesign. There is a newer landing page within in the last month.

Interesting, I am still seeing the old homepage so maybe you're part of an A/B test (or I am part of the control group?). I can only see the new page when viewing in firefox: http://imgur.com/vl9DyA4

I like the simplicity of http://getmagicnow.com, which appeared on HN semi-recently.

Magic previously had a serif font (Times?) and it was just a plain 10 digit phone number. The page was actually really off-putting to users [citation needed] until they eventually fixed it.

(Yeah, I don't remember the article outlining that it did. But I remember that it did. Magic started off as a kind of hack or whatever.)

There was another service that appeared on HN shortly after this did offering a similar service but for small coding projects. Does anyone remember the name?

Rabbits: https://ilikerabbits.com/

I think that's dead now. They haven't replied to my emails in weeks. And never charged me for my first project either. Shame.

Big fan of Dropbox's - Very Clean

When I think of simplicity I think of:

http://craigslist.org

...more links but less "plasticy".

Also:

http://www.berkshirehathaway.com

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