Ask HN: Do you preffer to purchase a landing page or develop it by yourself?

[thisismehrab]

As we all may agree, it's best to focus on the core functionality of our product first and then do less important things. When I was developing one of my products, it had so many technical features that I had to focus on. But I knew that if I was going to launch, I needed a good landing page that could showcase the features, grab attention, and convert leads. However, I had to trade my time instead of developing those core features for something less important like the landing page.

Now I'm thinking, why not just purchase a template from platforms like ThemeForest? How do you handle this problem? If you are a developer, would you rather write your website template yourself or would you prefer to buy something beautiful or elegant and just use it?

[XCSme]

I like writing my own HTML/CSS from scratch because I am "picky" and don't like when, for example, a ThemeForest theme comes with jQuery and 10 other JS libraries only for a button to animate. Also, sometimes customizing a theme has a bit of a learning curve, so I don't save too much time compared to writing my own.

That being said, the best solution would be to:

1. Don't care, just use any theme that's good enough.

2. Always use the same theme, so you get familiar with it then you can easily customize it.