LaunchPage

This is a quick and easy viral landing page that allows visitors to sign up, share a custom URL, and track how many referals they generated. LaunchPage was developed and is maintained by @kimmanis and @drigotti.

Below are two screenshots (homepage and sharing page) of pressrm.com, a site that was built using the LaunchPage, with some basic CSS modifications:

Getting Started

1. Fork the repo
2. Run rake db:migrate
3. Customize UI as needed, more information below
4. Change admin password
5. Deploy

Customization

LaunchPage is designed to be a fully customizable landing page, so that it's unique to your site and delivers the highest conversion rates.

CSS

LaunchPage is built on Bootstrap. More information on site structure and css settings can be found in the Bootstrap docs.

Homepage

The homepage is a simple form asking for the user's email address. This is the page users will see when they visit your site. It can be found at views/users/new

Confirmation & Share Page:

The confirmation and share page shows immediately after the user has provided their email address. This page includes his/her trackable referral URL and share buttons. It can be found at views/users/show

Admin

The admin page is where you can view how many people have registered and access their email address. You can edit this file at views/lock/unlock though you shouldn't need to.

To access registrations, visit http://www.yoursitehere.com/lock/login. The default password is "password". To change it, overwrite the password file using the following command: rails g lock:create_password_file yourpasswordhere

For more on lock can be found on the lock gem website.

Application

Sitewide changes (such as the navigation bar), can be made from views/layouts/application

Config

Open the config/application.yml file to change the following:

• Google analytics (e.g. UA-)
• SEO meta information (e.g. description)
• Facebook meta and social sharing (e.g. share copy and Twitter handle)

Deploying

This code uses SQLite for development but PostgreSQL for production. This is because Heroku only supports PostgreSQL but it's a pain to set up locally. You need to have Heroku installed and set up already for all this goodness to work. Detailed instructions can be found in the Heroku getting started guide.

To create a new heroku site: heroku apps:create exampleName

Then deploy to heroku (ensure changes already committed): git push heroku master

Then set up the database: heroku run rake db:migrate

If the CSS isn't showing up correctly, you may want to precompile assets and push everything again: rake assets:precompile

License & Attribution

This code is released under the MIT License. Parts of this code may be covered under separate license. While not required, we do ask for a link on your land page back to this page, so others can discover and build upon the work.