Before: https://imgur.com/a/5bzd9OK
After: https://imgur.com/a/1KjKWnE
I'm the founder of Quickpages.co which was made 10 years ago. It initially had massive traction somehow and continued getting views for many years thereafter. It ranked #1 on "Free landing pages" and got most of its views from Google & other sites writing articles about it.
Me, being a really lazy developer and having full-time jobs, and not being interested by the problem (technically speaking), I never really capitalized on it, and it barely made any money (maybe 5k from affiliate links). Here are some stats about it to give context:
|Statistic|Verified value| |:-|:-| |Registrations|82,835| |People who created at least one page|34,860| |Pages created|73,005| |Raw page-view records|8,742,241| |Recorded conversion events|498,600| |Locally stored leads|483,751|
That's a lot of traffic right, you'd think I'd have made more than 5k from it, but it was completely free, not monetized.
With the recent advances of AI (Sol especially), I thought it might be worth a shot to overhaul the whole thing and make it much better. The existing site is extremely barebones, no A/B testing, webhooks, anything. I've spent a few days with Codex and "Vibe Coded" the overhaul.
A few technical differences now with the new version:
|Statistic|Before|After| |:-|:-|:-| |Database tables|20|34| |Route declarations|50|104| |Controllers|19|34| |Automated test cases|24|153| |Selectable templates|6|41|
Feature wise:
|Before|Now| |:-|:-| |6 basic templates|41 templates across 6 categories| |Account required before building|Start creating before signing up| |Standalone pages|Pages, two-step funnels, and A/B tests| |Basic page statistics|Lead inbox, attribution, exports, and campaign reports| |Completely free|Freemium (optional $25 lifetime plan)|
Now, do I really think this project can be "revived"...? Probably not, there is a lot more competition now a days, and I'm not sure how it could rank highly SEO-wise, it used to be #1 for "free landing pages" which is what got most of the traffic, traffic is dying out now. There are about 12 signups a month VS 1700 at the peak.
Maybe it was more of an experiment to see what it "could have been" and a last ditch effort, but who knows, maybe a few people might find it useful still.
Either way, you can take a look at the new version - https://staging.quickpages.co/ - and compare to the old, let me know your thoughts, and I'll answer any questions here as well :)