Ask HN: Need to set up a few small project landing pages, advice?

__d · on Sept 9, 2020

Personally, I'd write plain, raw HTML/CSS for the static content, use Stripe for payments, GoAccess for analytics, and Digital Ocean for hosting.

For messaging, Twilio (Sendgrid) would likely work?

Check out indiehackers.com for a heap of resources and support for this kind of thing.

shadowprofile77 · on Sept 9, 2020

Thank you.. That's very simple and could be workable for bare bones pages. For basic visual elements the CSS should work I suppose (i'm not a programmer).

__d · on Sept 10, 2020

It is kinda as simple as it can be.

Write the HTML first, doing the basic page content and layout using standard HTML5. Then add class attributes to identify the things you want to style in the same way.

Use a single CSS file, and then add in styling for the various document elements (<p>, <h1>, etc) and classes.

You'll get almost all you need without any Javascript, and there's no need for static site generators or build systems or any thing complicated. You can do pretty much everything in two files (you could put the CSS into the HTML header, but it's kinda nicer to keep it separate).

Once you need to go beyond a landing page, you might want more sophistication, but you can deal with that later.

XCSme · on Sept 9, 2020

If you want analytics to view the stats for all your websites in a single place you can check out the tool I'm working on[0], as it's best suited for landing pages and helping with their improvement.

[0]: https://www.usertrack.net/