Ask HN: Best saas sales/landing page

[pedalpete]

I'm going to be taking my new saas product out of closed beta shortly, and am just getting into designing the homepage.

What are the saas sites that you've seen with GREAT homepages which really get across what the company does, and why you should sign-on?

The ones I've looked at are

http://basecamphq.com

http://google.com/apps

http://zoho.com

http://www.olark.com/portal/

http://posterous.com/

http://www.weebly.com/

https://www.wepay.com/

https://www.cloudkick.com/

[JarekS]

You may want to look at some sites that present great web design like http://www.unmatchedstyle.com/tag/crisp or http://cssmania.com/topics/business/technology/ (i've copied links to really cool designs in your area of interest).

[pedalpete → JarekS]

Thanks JarekS,

Those sites are great for design, but I'm really after the UI's that get users to sign-up and get interested in the product.

More of a sales than design thing.

[JarekS → pedalpete]

I think that these designs are also optimized for conversion rates. To be honest - there is no golden rule for a "conversion design" - you must do your a/b testing because a lot depends on the web copy.