codeadict / kings-landing

A modern, simple, customizable landing page dedicated to early customer acquisition for frugal entrepreneurs.

Kings Landing

A modern, simple, customizable landing page dedicated to early customer acquisition for frugal entrepreneurs. It is a prelaunch landing page aimed at gathering signups and market interest. Think it as an open-source alternative to LaunchRock without spending 5 bucks monthly. Designed to be deployed to Heroku and gather email addresses in a Google Spreadsheet with minimal effort and cost.

Demo

You can currently see a deployed demo https://kings-landing-page.herokuapp.com

Configuration

The app configuration resides in a file named config.yml, you can actually copy config.example.yml as follows and add your own settings:

cp config.example.yml config.yml

The available options are:

• product_title: Set your product title, e.g. "My Supercool Startup".
• product_description: Enter the description of your product.
• subscribe_headline: A text used to invite users to signup.
• seo_title: A SEO friendly title, also used for social sharing.
• seo_keywords: A comma separated list of SEO keywords for your site.
• seo_description: A SEO friendly description of your site.
• subscribe_button_color: Hexadecimal color of your subscribe button, e.g. #000000.
• subscribe_button_text: Text of the subscribe button, e.g. "I'm In".
• background_image_url: The url to your site's background image, use one with good resolution.
• google_drive_credentials: Credentials to access Google Drive and write the spreadsheet, the easiest way to generate this is by running $ rake setup_google_auth and follow the instructions.
• spreadsheet_key: The key that identifies your spreadsheet, can be found in the spreadsheet url in your browser, e.g. in https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Uepgo8_MyxqQrpr-ON94Q26Pyi0I9zTvno19kecef4I the key is 1Uepgo8_MyxqQrpr-ON94Q26Pyi0I9zTvno19kecef4I.
• google_analytics_key: This is the Google anlytics tracking code, see https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/1008080?hl=en for more info on how to obtain it.

Getting started

Run it locally with:

foreman start

Deployment to Heroku

First make sure to have your config.yml with all the settings and the Heroku CLI installed.

Create your app:

heroku create your_cool_startup

Push the app:

git push heroku master