gsonbuchner / soonatra

Sinatra application to show a “Coming Soon” page and collect emails.

Soonatra!

Sinatra application to show a “Coming Soon” page and collect emails.

Features

• Mailchimp integration
• Screenshots panel with DOMWindow zoom ( may I suggest collecting early feedback with Notable ?)
• Features list with icons
• Displays latest blog posts (from RSS)
• A/B Testing on all headlines and text
• Dead simple YAML-based configuration.
• Theme management with Compass/Blueprint and rake
• Airbrake (Hoptoad) integration for error reporting (optional)
• Designed for easy deployment to Heroku

Requires

• Ruby 1.9
• Redis

Set up

1. bundle install
2. Configure config/config.yml from the example file
3. Run rake blog:update to populate the blog entries from your RSS feed
4. Make sure redis is running: redis-server (or use the free plan from http://redistogo.com/)
5. bundle exec shotgun
6. Open localhost:9393.
7. Admire!

Usage

• Split tests are set up automatically just by setting multiple variants of the text
  in your config.yml file. They all share the same goal, convert visits to signups.

• Visit /split to learn which variations are most successful and pick the winners.

• View rake -T for some useful tasks.

Themes

To create a new theme, use rake theme:new[theme_name]. This will create a copy of
the default theme and activate it for you.

To switch between themes, use rake theme:set[theme_name]

Support for theme-specific markup is intentionally ommitted to discourage you from wasting
time you should be investing in your new product.

For all other documentation, refer to config/config.yml.example

TODO

• The test suite has not been updated

Credits

Written by Logan Koester
Sponsored by Agora Games
Split testing by Andrew Nesbitt’s split rubygem
Originally based on https://github.com/renderedtext/coming-soon