Ask HN: Self hosted Waitlist with Landing page?

7 points · surrTurr · 1 days ago

Currently building a little app.

To see if people would be interested in it, I want to build a little landing page that features some screenshots and has a waiting list (via email) at the bottom.

Are there any services or open source projects for this? Preferably using shadcn/react/supabase. I don't want to reinvent the wheel here.

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codegeek · 1 days ago
"Preferably using shadcn/react/supabase. I don't want to reinvent the wheel here."

Respectfully, you don't need supabase for a landing page with waitlist especially when you don't want to reinvest the wheel. You have several options:

1. Find a WordPress theme that has the form built in. The fastest out of the box setup you will find.

2. If you don't want WordPress, then there are plenty of static HTML templates you can find. Just google "Landing Page Templates with Waitlist". One example for you [0]

For Option 2, you can connect the form to an existing API from any email provider like mailchimp, loops, etc. If you want to self host, you can get something like sendy [1] or listmonk [2]

[0] https://cruip.com/demos/waitlist/

[1] https://sendy.co/ (PHP Based)

[2] https://listmonk.app (Golang based)

codingdave · 1 days ago
Well, a static HTML page with a form submission would achieve what you describe. If you are building an app -- any app -- even your prototype is surely already more advanced than a simple web page? So exactly what piece of it is blocking you from creating one?

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pestaa · 1 days ago
Email service providers often offer landing pages.

I've built my fair share of 'coming soon' pages, and it was never a good use of time.

quintes · 11 hours ago
A simple static HTML with tailwind

A Google form

beretguy · 1 days ago
Ah...

<form method="post">

  <label for="email">Email </label>

  <input name="email" id="email" />

  <button type="submit">Join waiting list</button>
</form>

And then store it in database on a server.

You can get it working with PHP on FortRabbit in less than an hour.

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