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When my friend approached me to help build a landing page for his startup Bullionix, my initial reaction was, “Ugh, I hate building landing pages.” Clients are usually not willing to pay much for a landing page, but their requirements are typically very high — they want it to look beautiful, convey their message, and most importantly: CONVERT.

Luckily, I’ve been spending some time on the Indie Hacker forum, and I remembered hearing about a project called Unicorn Platform that supposedly made building landing pages effortless…even (dare I say it?) fun!

INITIAL IMPRESSION

Before confirming with my client that we’d use Unicorn Platform, I played around with the platform to get a feel for what we could do with it. Initially, its feature set seemed quite underwhelming — the cookie-cutter widgets seemed difficult to customize, and my client’s design, while not completely unique, called for a custom color set, page headers, full-size images, and more.

However, as I dug into the platform’s features and “hacked around” a bit, I discovered it was actually quite extensible. HTML and custom styles could be inserted into text elements, colors could be changed by targeting certain CSS elements in the Custom Code section, and default icons could even be swapped out with a bit of creative styling.

Linking up Mailchimp and setting a custom domain were both simple, one-click integrations.

What really impressed me most about Unicorn Platform was the beautiful design given to each element. Spacing between modules and subtle effects like button hovers really give the site an aura of professionality that only top-tier designers can create. Each element also looks perfect on mobile, so no more worrying about media queries and weird-sized pictures.

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FINAL THOUGHTS

Overall, I think Unicorn Platform is a solid landing page builder for those with a working knowledge of HTML and CSS. My main disappointment with the platform was an inability to customize my own color scheme with the GUI (Unicorn currently only provides a few themes out of the box), and also being unable to put a background image into the Hero modules without hacking the CSS.

But those are minor things that can easily be remedied in future versions.

Click here to view the page I created with Unicorn Platform, and click here if you’d like to try Unicorn Platform for your next project.

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