Carrd's templates, even on the free plan, are clean and attractive. Think of Carrd as suitable for a digital business card, a portfolio with a few images, or a simple landing page. I would recommend this for folks who need a temporary website solution. As well, if you just need a basic, one-page website to advertise yourself or your service. Their best templates look like a business card that links to a page. You can't beat the price-point. As I write this it's $19/year. Dirt cheap compared to most web builders like Wix, Weebly, Abstract, Wordpress, all that. The closest I could find was Persona (by Cargo) at $26/year. And it does have an improved WYSIWYG editor. Regardless, Carrd's got everyone beat for pricing.
Carrd has major limitations in elements and styling. If you want to create a blog or even a simple article, it's not going to be easy. The styles will be out-of-the-box, and for someone like me, that's going to be a deal-breaker for most applications. I would not recommend this product to designers or folks selling complex products. It's excellent for looking clean and professional but will not have you standing out.
I used Carrd to create a placeholder website while building something more complex. It redirected to other places people could find me. And it looked good.
During the pandemic, I decided to start a small business, which I had never done before. I knew I needed a website, but I was afraid it was going to be expensive. After doing some research I found Carrd and was shocked at how affordable it was. It made my startup costs extremely low for my coaching business, which made it much easier to take the risk of investing a few hundred dollars into my business before making any money from it. I ended up making a few thousand dollars of extra income during 2020 because of my side business pursuit. I'm not sure I would have taken the chance on doing this if I hadn't found such a cheap option for a website, but some of my clients told me that they found me simply off of my website and that they loved being able to learn about me before reaching out over phone or email. It was also incredibly easy to integrate my email-contact form and reliably worked so I knew I wouldn't miss any clients.
Because it's so affordable, it's not like you have unlimited options in terms of how you can customize your website or the various templates you can choose from. That being said, I'm not a website designer so having access to those templates was a massive help because the finished product I have looks far better than anything I could've done myself working form a blank slate. I guess I'm not really even sure what I would have done differently if I'd have had access to more options for customizing. I don't use e-commerce or anything like that, so my needs were pretty simple.
Like I said, I had an idea to start a life-coaching business, but didn't want to spend a ton of money setting it up because I wasn't sure how it would go. Carrd made that decision incredibly easy because my cost basis stayed so low, which took away so much stress of if/when I would get my first client and start to bring in money. I've learned that it's not nearly as hard as I thought to build a functional, good looking website and it costs WAY less than I thought it would have. I still use Carrd for my website and I have no plans on switching to anything else.
Carrd is so easy to use and their pricing is very good. I use it for my business for clients to email me questions, see my prices, and fill out the order form.
You can't change your website name without deleting the whole page. Not that I've found anyway. That makes it a little troublesome if you typo, but it isn't a deal breaker.
Carrd has allowed me to put all of my information in one place and allow clients to fill out a form rather than having me ask them a million questions to get them a proper quote.
I use Carrd for my personal website, business website, as well as for Slack group sign ups for groups I administer (3000+ person Slack community). Carrd is affordable, easy to use, and makes great looking web pages. I've used it since it first launched on product hunt and it is constantly improving and adding new functions, plug ins, etc.
I wouldn't build a full e-commerce site or anything on the platform. It's simple to use and creates simple pages, but with the improvements the developer keeps making maybe it will get there one day. It is definitely suited for easily customized and edited, static pages at a great price but nothing more than that.
Quickly making a website that doesn't look terrible and feels professional, plus is responsive, easy to update, and not very expensive. Carrd ticks all of these boxes for me to the point where I have built 4 sites using it (all on the same inexpensive license!).
Fairly straightforward and easy to use Free Price is fair and lowest among similar services for premium version
Interface Performance of the design interface and the design process feels a bit slow and clunky Self-hosting is cheaper
I needed a rudimentary web presence and Carrd solved that. If I need something very, very basic - the free version of Carrd is pretty good.
The first time I encountered this site I was impressed at how easy it was to set up a business card site or landing page. Then I looked at the pricing. $19/year for 10 sites which includes the option of adding a custom domain. Compared to the yearly cost of About.me, it's a great deal. Pay a little more and you can accept payments and get 25 sites.. Still cheaper than About.me Use the extra sites for all your niches. The page builder loads very fast as do the sites themselves. I like that a lot.
Only one page is allowed per card-site. Depending on your needs, I guess, this is either a bug or a feature.
I like the idea of having a simple, fast-loading, easy to implement and updated business card site. I just don't want to pay a lot for it. Carrd is perfect for this and a good alternative to About.me.
Carrd's pricing is incredibly reasonable. For only a little bit of money, you can host a number of sites using Carrd.
Carrd takes some getting used to and you have to understand page structures a bit, but once you play around for a bit, it becomes very easy to create nice pages.
Carrd allows users to set up single page websites very easily. No more messing around with other page builders, Carrd is simple and quick. There are a bunch of starter pages/templates, and also a few websites listing great Carrd design.
The pricing for the number of websites you get is incredible. One of the cheapest ways to build and host websites to empower to create websites!
I wish there was a large template marketplace. If I could access hundreds of templates that others have made, I would love Carrd even more.
I use it for simple websites to test if my ideas are a validated concpet. Speed and the number of websites I can publish are the apparent benefits.