Hi HN! I just released the first iteration of a new service that provides nice coming soon pages. The idea is to replace the hideous GoDaddy ad filled pages with something nice looking and useful. I've still got a lot of things I want to do such as additional templates and integration with mass mailers such as MailChimp but I wanted to get feedback from the HN crowd. Here's the main site URL:<p>http://duringconstruction.com/<p>And here is an example site:<p>http://theloserscircle.com/
Hi,
a few notes<p>- generally speaking, I agree that's a useful service. Users should be able to set up not only "coming soon" pages, but also little "corporate websites" the can be online before the designers prepare the final corporate site<p>- when I log in, if I click on "Account" I see a blank page<p>- Is it already possible to create a "coming soon" page? I don't see this functionality clearly accessible, I see only the Verification functionality. When I log in, the first thing I want to learn is how easy is to set up my customised landing page.<p>- Please don't use your Twitter account to send <i>only advertisement</i>. As a Twitter user, I find that very annoying, and usually end up blocking users that do that
I think this is a great idea and useful service and I would definitely use it. However, I think the main page could use some redesign. In my opinion, the appearance appears 'dirty'. The example site looks great and has good vibrant color choices but your website doesn't reflect this style. At first I thought the snapshot of your example site was an ad. Maybe want to fix that? Once you have more examples you can have a gallery of them so people can get an idea of what they want and of what you can do. Layout/placement/content seems fine, it's just the color and theme of your website brings me down. I feel like things need to pop. Hope this helps.