Skipped the full website and launched with a single one-pager. First users came anyway

I kept delaying my launch because I thought I needed a "real" website. Pricing page, about page, blog, the works. Every week that turned into an excuse not to ship.

So I gave up on all of it and built one one-pager for the launch instead. Single scrolling page: what it is in one line, three problems it takes off your plate, a short clip of it working, and one button. No nav, no extra pages, nothing to click away to.

Took an afternoon. I almost didn't post it because it felt too thin.

It's been about two weeks and I've got my first small handful of users off that single page, from a couple of comments and one post. Not big numbers, but every one of them converted off one screen, which tells me all the pages I was going to build would've been procrastination in disguise.

The lesson I keep relearning: a page that exists beats a website that's still in your head. You can always add the rest once someone actually wants the thing.

Curious how minimal others went at launch, did a one-pager work for you or did you need more to get people to trust it?