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Why Carrd is good for indie makers
You may already know plenty about Carrd, but why and where is it a great tool to use in your projects? So here's a quick outline of what Carrd is and why we think it's good for makers, and a summary of it's good and bad points.
Carrd is a simple website builder tool. It's designed for building one-page websites, although it can do multi-page sites too (more on that in our Carrd Quick Start Guide).
The beauty of Carrd in our opinion, is that it's not aimed at any particular use case. It's not so too complicated, or too basic. It has enough flexibility in it to make great sites without a big learning curve. That means you can quickly build almost any kind of simple website, easily – a personal profile, a newsletter signup, a product landing page, and so on.
It's also very cost effective to use. We don't know of another web platform where you can launch sites on custom domains for so little.
The free plan gives you 3 sites (without custom domains) and the lowest Pro plan gives you 10 sites (on custom domains) for only $19/yr. That's just $1.90 to run a site, per year.
Carrd's good & bad points
Low running cost for each website, vs other platforms
Super fast building – from idea to launch, in minutes
Easy to add highly visual elements - SVG images, large videos or gifs
No CMS or API (can't do much with data or external sources)
No blog as part of the native platform
Ability to customise design is good, but not extensive
Note: This is an excerpt from our Carrd Quick Start Guide
Carrd inspo
Deck of Carrd
The #1 Carrd inspiration gallery
Dealer of Carrd
Site ideas you can build with Carrd
One Page Love
Zite
Carrd templates
Pre-designed, ready-to-use Carrd templates
Featured collections
Recommended collections
Templatery
Arrtist
Cool Templates
Pyxles
Launch.fyi
templatesfor.carrd.co
One Page Love
Pyxles
Anticode
Qookie
Carrd-templates.com
Tempeld
UHDED
Worrk
Carrd Elements
Nocolo.co
cooltemplatesfor.carrd.co
Our free collection
Note: these all state they require a Carrd Pro Plus account, due to having a Contact or Signup form included.
Blocks Light
Coming Soon page for launches
Blocks Dark
Coming Soon page for launches
Simples
Landing page for indie SaaS startups
Idea Page
Straightforward landing page to validate an idea
Micro landing page
A 'tweet-size' landing page, useful for gating lead magnets
Carrd reference links
Useful links with information on Carrd
See more useful tips on our blog
Carrd components
Pre-designed components for Carrd
Components UI – Complete
Components UI – Premium
pyxl.es
uicomponents.carrd.co
Widgets & plugins for Carrd
Add extra functions to your Carrd site
Featured
Full-featured blog
Navbar menu with hamburger
Simple analytics
Recommended
Feather blog
Embed Notion
Elfsight – widget library
Ecwid – shop widget
Startup bundle for Carrd plugins
Video button
Floating button welcome video
Testimonial slider
Animated buttons
Responsive mobile navbar
Listings with filters & search
Testimonial tweets
Blur menu
Visibility control
Buy me a Coffee
MadeBy badge
Marquee text
Dark Mode
Blogstatic
Bookingmood
Tooltip
Typewriter text
Randomizer plugin
A/B testing sections
Shoprocket ecommerce
Carrd services
Carrd expert services aimed at helping you build
Custom Carrd site
Landing page cloning
Website audit
UX audit
NoCode Helpline
Landing page build
Custom development
Carrd tutorials
Learn new tricks and techniques from Carrd experts
Quick Start Guide
SEO Basics
Visual extras
Xperian course
Carrd Tutorials
Tips & Tricks blog
Handing out site ideas you can build with Carrd
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What is this tool for?
We really believe Carrd is an amazing tool that makes it easy to spin up small sites, businesses and product ideas fast, cheap and with ease.
This site is designed to help if you're stuck for ideas, need inspiration, or just curious what you can build with Carrd (or, more often Carrd + another tool).
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