cnu's Build In Public log

Challenge 0: Landing Page creator to validate ideas

I own ~30 different domains and 100+ ideas in my notebook.

The number 1 problem I have when I get an idea is how to validate it quickly. How do I get the email addresses of interested people?

The site I am building now aims to solve this problem.

Here's what I'm building:

Whenever I get an idea and buy a domain name, the first step I do is to build a landing page.

Some tools I use:

But the problem: I spend days on it and drop it after a few weeks.

This is what I am going to solve.

I am going to build a web app that allows me to quickly get a landing page up and running – in less than 30 seconds.

The most minimal landing page consists of a Headline, a few paragraphs of copy and an email form.

All the others components like a mockup picture or video, pricing page, features, and FAQs are all secondary.

To validate an idea, I would stick with the bare minimum and maybe continuously iterate on it as more people come into the funnel.

So this is my Challenge 0: I am going to build this web app that can host a landing page for all my ideas.

And this will help me to quickly validate and get an audience for my 13 apps in 2023.

If done right, I can build the landing pages for all my ideas in the first week of January and I can focus on whichever gathers the most interest from the audience.

This is my plan for the next 6 weeks of this year.

So what is the current status?

  1. I have bought the domain

  2. And began working on the first landing page using Tailwind CSS.

I will update you here and on Twitter @cnu as I keep making progress. So make sure to follow me.

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