Coming soon website templates you can download or put online today

The form in every free template is dead. Ours too, until you wire it up.

Go and download any coming soon template from any gallery. The listing will promise a countdown and an email signup form. Open index.html and search for action=. You will find action="#", or a <form> with no handler at all. The countdown is real. The form is a picture of a form.

Nobody is being dishonest exactly — a static HTML file genuinely has nowhere to send an address until you pick somewhere. But the gap between "email signup form" in the feature bullets and a dead input in the file is where launches quietly die: you post the link, forty people type their address into a form that throws it away, and you find out on launch day with an empty list and no way to get those forty back.

So we do two things. The .zip is free with no email wall, and its README opens with this problem and the three fixes rather than filing it under FAQ. And if you would rather not solve it at all, publish the same template here and the field works on arrival. Here is the honest comparison of the three routes, including where we lose.

Where we lose: there is no theme marketplace, the 6 Pro templates have no .zip at all, the hosted builder gives you fields rather than code so a developer will find it a cage, and if you want a real multi-page website later you will outgrow this in an afternoon. Take the .zip in that case — it is MIT, we are not going to sulk about it.

Questions people actually ask

When should I use a coming soon page?

When you have a launch date or a waitlist and no site yet. It buys you three things: a real URL to put in a bio or a pitch, a place to collect addresses before launch day, and something better than a parked domain for anyone who searches your name early. If you have nothing to announce and nobody to announce it to, skip it.

What makes a coming soon page effective?

Naming what you are launching, one email field above the fold, and a date you will actually hit. In that order. Design matters far less than most template galleries imply — a plain page with a specific promise beats a beautiful page that says "something amazing is coming" every single time.

Can I download the templates as HTML?

Yes — 8 of the 14 download as a .zip containing index.html, a README and an MIT LICENSE. No account, no email address, no modal: the download starts when you click the button on the template page. Do what you like with it commercially, no attribution needed. The 6 Pro templates are hosted only, which is part of what the Pro plan is.

Why does the signup form in the downloaded template not work?

Because a static HTML file has nowhere to send an address until you tell it where — and that is true of every free coming soon template on the internet, not just ours. Most ship action="#" and never mention it. Ours ships with the endpoint blank, a console warning when you submit, and a README that opens with the three fixes: a Formspree URL (one line, free tier), your Mailchimp or ConvertKit embed, or posting to a page you publish here on the free plan. Whichever you choose, submit your own address and go find it before you share the link.

Do the templates include email capture?

On the hosted page, yes, and it is connected: the address lands in a leads list on your dashboard, up to 100 leads on Free and unlimited on Pro, with no Mailchimp account to create and no form endpoint to configure. In the downloaded .zip, no — the form is styled but the endpoint is yours to set, which takes one line. Exporting the hosted list to CSV or XLSX is a Pro feature.

Do I need hosting?

Not if you publish here — the page goes live on yourname.comingsoonwebsite.com the moment you hit publish, on the free plan, with no server to rent and nothing to deploy. If you took the .zip instead, you need somewhere to put one HTML file, and the cheapest route is dragging the folder onto Netlify Drop: free, HTTPS included, live in about ten seconds. The README also covers Vercel, Cloudflare Pages, GitHub Pages and plain FTP.

How do I actually collect the emails?

On a page published here, you do nothing: a visitor types their address, it lands in the leads list for that page, and you read it in your dashboard or export it to a spreadsheet. From a downloaded .zip you point the form at something first — Formspree, a mail service, or the same hosted page via its endpoint. This is the step every free template leaves to you, and the step that stops most of them ever collecting anything.

Can I use my own domain?

Yes, on the Pro plan at $24 a month. Add a DNS A record pointing at us, type the domain into the builder, and the page serves on it with an SSL certificate issued automatically — no certificate to buy or renew. Every page also gets a free subdomain, which is enough for most launches.

Are the free templates really free?

Yes — 8 of the 14 templates are on the free plan, with no card, no trial clock and no email required to preview or to download them. Free gives you one live page, 50 visible leads and subdomain hosting, forever. Pro at $24/month adds the other 6 templates, a custom domain, unlimited leads, exports and removes our branding.

What licence are the templates under?

MIT, and the LICENSE file is in the .zip. Use them commercially, edit them, ship them to a client, sell the page you build with them. No attribution and no link back required. The Google font each one loads is under the SIL Open Font License, which is separately fine for commercial use.

Do I need to code?

No, if you publish here: you type into fields and watch the preview change, and there is no HTML to touch. Yes, a little, if you take the .zip — you will be editing an index.html by hand, which mostly means changing three hex values and one date, but you do need to be comfortable opening the file. If that sentence made you uneasy, use the hosted builder.