Landing Pages by ConvertKit - The easiest way to launch your next creative project

I'm pretty excited to share this project with you all! For the last couple years I've been frustrated with how hard it is to spin up a simple landing page for a new project. After the free landing page solutions died off and the paid products turned enterprise, I decided it was time to build our own, and make it free! Everyone's always thought of ConvertKit as email marketing for creators, but now with landing page it's the easiest way to launch your next creative project! A few features included at launch: 1. 30+ templates for launching your next event, podcast, book, or anything else 2. Custom domains: use our .ck.page domain or bring your own 3. Thousands of free photos directly from Unsplash 4. Thank you pages for upsells and additional actions 5. Mobile friendly designs 6. Collect additional info about each subscriber with custom fields, tags, and checkboxes Long-term we've got a ton of new improvements planned, such as: 1. A direct integration with Instagram to pull in your photos 2. More templates (we're releasing one per week) 3. A direct integration with YouTube to bring in your videos 4. More options for background patterns and color palettes We've had this free plan launched for free for about 5 weeks, but today we announced a brand new flow where you can build a landing page _before_ you create an account. The landing page builder also got a cool mechanic built in where if you invite a friend then you both unlock email sending for up to 100 subscribers. Invite another friend and you'll get 100 more. Dropbox-style. I'd love to answer any questions!

Among all the positives that this has (i.e. speed, design, simplicity) it also gets you on the runway for building THE asset for you...your email list! If you are just starting out, these landing pages are a must! If you have been in the game a while (like myself) these make it super quick and efficient to put together pages for JVs, webinars, and new services. Thanks to the team there for all the hard work on this @nathanbarry

This has been such a fun project to work on! We built a system that allows us to serve a virtually unlimited number of landing pages with incredible performance, release new templates with little development effort, and continue to add new features to quickly launch your next project. If you have any questions on the technical side of things, feel free to reach out!

I got to work on the infrastructure of this product. It's a really cool problem to solve. The majority of the product is serving static HTML, js, and CSS from nginx but the most interesting part (in my opinion) is how we allow custom domains and SSL using lets encrypt. We have some clever ways to authenticate a domain that tell us if we should or shouldn't be issuing a certificate. After passing authentication we reach out to Lets Encrypt for the certificate. We store the certificate in the filesystem and replicate it to all the necessary hosts in our fleet. Once the certificate is stored and replicated, the landing page will start handling requests immediately. If anyone has any questions about how we have scaled, or how we will scale, this product in the future, please feel free to reach out.

I love this these landing page templates. One of the downsides of other landing page tools that I've tried is that they all sort of look the same. Which gives them that "landing page template" look. On the other hand, these look sharp and super original. Nice work!

ConvertKit is so easy to use. And if I have an issue the helpdesk are always on the ball and ready to help. I definitely recommend Convertkit

What categories of landing page templates would you like to see us add more of?

I work on the marketing team at ConvertKit and am so excited to share our new landing page product with you all! Over the past few years, we have seen so many new creators struggle to get their creative project launched. Other solutions have been either too expensive, overly complex, or simply not built with creators in mind. Because we only make money when a creator successfully grows their email list, I believe we are uniquely positioned to offer something very compelling in the landing page space. We don't need to place any restrictions on the number of landing pages you have or limits on the amount of traffic you can drive to your page/s like so many of our competitors do. All we care about is helping creators succeed! When you succeed so do we. Give our new landing page builder a shot and let us know what you think. We can't wait to see what you create!

It’s really exciting to see the whole set of tools come together for creators. Themes look stellar. Nice work 👏

ConvertKit helped me take my course biz from 10k to > $60k in less than 3 months. I couldn’t run my business this effectively with Mailchimp and I’m so excited to see them continue to expand their tools for creators across the spectrum!