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I used to to fly a paraglider. A great sport (which I started with the awesome Tamkik club in Tampere), but time goes. Family and moving between cities and workplaces - over the last 7 years or so I haven’t done a single flight, so it’s time to admit it and sell stuff to somebody who needs it more.

Starting a SaaS or micro-SaaS business can be challenging, especially when it comes to creating a landing page. As I recently discovered when building AI Feedback Pro, creating a landing page to validate customer interest can be a costly venture. However, I found a solution that cost just $19/year plus the cost of the domain, without sacrificing the essential features.

In this post, I’d like to share my experience and provide you with a list of components and services that will help you build an effective landing page on a budget. Whether you’re just starting out or looking for cost-saving measures, this guide is for you.

Just the list

Where the price isn’t mentioned - it is free on the landing page scale

• Landing page service: Carrd on Pro Standard plan for $19/year, can be used for 10 sites
  • Runner-up: EarlyBird.im for $8/month
• Theme: Carrd’s own template #95 free for Pro Plan users
  • Runners-up: template #106 also free and SaaSy template for $29
• Mailing list to subscribe interested people: EmailOctopus
• Cookieless Analytics: PanelBear for your first users, GoatCounter not too loose the track if landing page is suddenly successful
  • Runners-up: Clicky and Couner.dev
• Surveys: Tally.so
• Illustrations: Undraw + some PlaygroundAI modifications when you want to have something similar, but a little different
  • Runners-up: just google for “undraw alternatives” - there are lots of illustration services free for commercial use
• Logo: Namecheap LogoMaker
  • Runners-up: LogoAI for inspiration if you are fine with recreating it in SVG, BrandCrowd for $8 or TailorBrands for 8€
• Email service: Gandi, but you’ll need to buy domain from them in order to get it for free
• Support chat: Crisp chat
• Bonus: Your service name: ChatGPT as a discussion partner

Now to the details.