How I Built a Landing Page in 1 Day to Validate My SaaS Idea (Almost for Free)

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Hi everyone! I'm currently building SaaS Status — a simple status page and uptime monitoring tool for indie SaaS products. Here's how I built the landing page in one day and started validating the idea — with minimal budget and no coding.

🧠 Step 1 — Research + GPT Brainstorming

Before doing anything, I researched the market:

  • What similar tools exist?
  • What do they cost?
  • What features do they offer?

Then, I asked ChatGPT to help me brainstorm the landing page structure and copy, based on my product positioning and pricing ideas. It helped a lot with organizing thoughts and turning them into actual text.

🎨 Step 2 — Framer + a Free Template

I found a clean and free Framer template and spent around 5 hours customizing it:

  • Replaced all text with my own.
  • Adjusted the layout slightly.
  • Generated screenshots and visuals with ChatGPT's help.
  • Designed a simple logo in Figma (inspired by an image ChatGPT generated!).

🌐 Step 3 — Domain + Hosting

This was the only part that wasn’t free:

  • Domain: $12
  • Framer Pro plan: $20/month (to connect my domain)

And that’s it — I published it!

🚀 Step 4 — Validation

Now I'm driving my first traffic to the landing page via Reddit, Twitter, Indie Hackers, and dev.to. My goal is to see if anyone's interested enough to leave an email — or ideally pre-order.

If this resonates with enough people, I’ll continue development and turn SaaS Status into a full product. If not — I’ll have only lost one day and $32. Not bad!

👉 You can check it out here: https://saasstatus.app
I'd love to hear your feedback or suggestions!

💬 Why I'm Building This

I’ve launched several SaaS projects before. Every time, monitoring was an afterthought — and I often found myself wondering:

"Is my app down?"

"Did that Stripe webhook fail?"

"Why am I only finding out from users?"

So this time, I’m building what I wish I had:

A simple tool that notifies me (and my users) when something breaks — so I can fix it before the support inbox explodes.

Thanks for reading! I’d love to hear your thoughts — and follow your projects too 💬