Show HN: Ready-made, Modular Landing Pages for Startups

http://www.modulz.co

by colmtuite • 13 years ago

55 42 13 years ago

I like the idea very much and the fact it's self-hosted as well. Yeah, you could go with launchrock of a standard Bootstrap-carrousel page or a Wordpress template, but this is even simpler to deploy and allows for easy tweaking. Great for launch- and product pages and even small websites without a database and stuff. Did notice the button to 'video' doesn't work in Safari (6.05). Works fine in Chrome.

hannesfostie• 13 years ago

I betatested this. Even back then it was pretty solid. As you can tell by the landing page (eat your own dog food etc) it's drop dead gorgeous. It's easy to work with and contained a lot of modules. Took me about 30 minutes to put together a landing page.

This is ideal for testing out those early ideas, or simply when you want to move ahead with a product without having to spend money or time on a landing page yet.

Definately worth the money!

6thSigma3• 13 years ago

Why should I spend $99 on this when I could spend $15 for a similar theme on ThemeForest or a site like that?

(Not being snarky, I've never bought a theme on any of those sites and don't really know about how the licenses and stuff work.)

digitalengineer4• 13 years ago

I think if you're a dev you're not really the target audience. Marketing and regular people are. (Or designers that can't code?)

markyc• 13 years ago

actually, the offer here is raw html files which you need to edit manually, so it's not exactly out of the box either

i can't see any difference between this theme and others from themeforest either

colmtuite10• 13 years ago

Besides the improved visual design, the key difference with Modulz is that it's modular. Most themes come as full pages. If they don't suit, sometimes it can be hard to tailor them to your needs. There are also up to 17 different sections with Modulz, that's more than most thems ship with.

6thSigma3• 13 years ago

Nice, thanks for the answer.

Edit: So what is the license for this anyways? If I buy this, can I package it up and resell it? Can I use it for multiple clients?

aculver• 13 years ago

Any examples of what the "Skeuo" style looks like?

colmtuite10• 13 years ago

Thanks for pointing that out, I'll upload one soon. For now, if you open dev tools on the Modulz site, go to the html element and change the "phlat" class to "glossy". Then you'll see the skeuo buttons.

colmtuite10• 13 years ago

Here's an image of the phlat button and the skeuo buttons side by side.

http://i.imgur.com/3fDqmbz.png

Modulz ships with both styles anyway, so no need to worry :)

illyism• 13 years ago

That's not skeuomorphic. It's just a few shadows. It doesn't imitate reality.

sarbogast• 13 years ago

I'm sorry but the point still stands: excellent idea but the price gap is way too big with themeforest themes compared to the benefits. 50 bucks is the max I would set aside for this, and I consider it to be a lot.

digitalengineer4• 13 years ago

I donno, Modulz looks well designed and built. I like the professional feel it provides. Hiring designer to build something similar would cost a lot more than 99 bucks. It's not that much to spend for someone who's serious about their startup and want something other than standard themeforst/bootstrap. (That is until everybody starts using this, I suppose by then there might be a lot more versions/tweaks).

outside12343• 13 years ago

I actually disagree as well. Sure, themeforest has themes, but this actually looks professional.

graycat4• 13 years ago

Not joking: What's a "landing page"?

colmtuite10• 13 years ago

A landing page is a marketing site. When startups want to launch their products, they build marketing sites to help advertise. Modulz is a collection of HTML website sections that you can customize and piece together to build your marketing site.

graycat4• 13 years ago

I'm building a Web site.

What does a landing page have to do with the Web site? Is the landing page one of the pages at the site with the domain name of the site? Is the hosting the same as for the site? Does the landing page first exist before the site does, at the same time the site does, or only after the site does? Why isn't a landing page just one more page I could have at my site with the same domain name of my site? Does the landing page have links to the other pages of the site? In what sense is the landing page "marketing", keywords for search engines or search engine optimization (SEO) or something else?

I understand the Web site I'm building but not landing pages -- trying to learn. I might need a landing page.

So, if one reason someone might use my site is to learn about cooking, then maybe I will have a landing page intended just to attract (via search engines and keywords about cooking) users interested in cooking and from that landing page have a link to my site? In this case the landing page for cooking doesn't really tell the user much about cooking but just directs them to my site where they can learn more about cooking?

And if my site is also of interest to people interested in classical music, then I might have a landing page just for users with that interest?

Is that the idea?

If so, then such a landing page might have difficulty doing well in page rank?

ponyandtrap• 13 years ago

Nobody else think this design looks pony?

GrinningFool• 13 years ago

Style comments:

* Assuming that dog food is consumed, do you offer landing pages without the 'scroll instead of load pages' behavior that's become [arguably] too common lately?

* I understand the trend towards 'flat design', but to my inexpert eye there should be some indication that I can interact with an element - the buttons on the page and demo just look like colorful text blocks.

Edit: moved this down, it's no longer relevant on second glance:

I think the idea is good, and there's a need for such a service. There's just some that isn't clear.

* What do I get by subscribing - unlimited sites? The rights to keep using the design I configured?

* What if I just want one-and-done?

EDIT: sorry, the video showed subscription in the walk-through, but this isn't something on the actual 'get modulz' page.

RogerL• 13 years ago

I would suggest the tag at the very bottom "Build a beautiful marketing site for your startup in minutes." is your biggest selling point, and so perhaps it belongs 'above the fold' so to speak (at the top).

I would also like to see the 'beautiful' sites, and not watch a video or look at discrete elements like buttons.

I'm not a customer, so don't put a ton of weight into those comments, but it's what immediately occurred to me when I went to look.

outside12343• 13 years ago

Great idea! (For those of you that didn't figure it out immediately either - click on the "eye" on the offers page to see what you get in both).

colmtuite10• 13 years ago

We've decided to drop the prices based on feedback. Thew new prices are $49 and $79. Everyone who has purchased Modulz already will be refunded the difference.

jpadvo• 13 years ago

Beautiful design, and with the pricing change it is a great buy. One quick note -- when you click the eye buttons to see details, the old prices still show up.

colmtuite10• 13 years ago

Good spot. Thanks for pointing it out. It's fixed.

nodesocket• 13 years ago

Can we get another section, as feature in, or customers? I.E. logos of companies using the startup, or techcrunch, pandodaily, forbes, etc...

outside12343• 13 years ago

One question: If we launch with pack 1, can we "upgrade" to pack 1+2 when we want to go paid?

colmtuite10• 13 years ago

Sure. Just shoot us an email at colm@modulz.co when you're ready to upgrade.

pbnjay2• 13 years ago

Only 2 color schemes? Do I get an easy way to import my own too? Its beautiful but I'd rather not look like 50 other sites...

colmtuite10• 13 years ago

There is currently no internal way to import your own color scheme. You can always override the CSS with your own colors.

We have lots of extra features planned for the future including extra color schemes, custom color schemes, extra Modulz, web fonts, more customization options etc.

If lots of people start using it, we will add new customization options very soon.

pbnjay2• 13 years ago

How many colors would I need to replace? We talking 10 minutes or a couple hours?

I'll probably buy just cause I've been looking for something like this, but I'd like the path of least resistance. Great Product, Thanks.

zeckalpha• 13 years ago

Choose between phlat or skeuo design styles.

Both are skeumorphic and relatively flat. This is incorrect to suggest that the terms are mutually opposed.

epiddy• 13 years ago

Ok so it looks great in Chrome, but I fired it up in IE 10 and the first 2 pages "look" blank, if you didn't know to scroll down you'd think the page was blank.

A template to be used for a landing page should be able to properly render in browsers. Just sayin...

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