I’ve heard great things about building awesome looking sites on Webflow, so I started exploring how to make an Anvil powered Webflow site and I think I’m on to something.
Originally, I had built this landing page with anvil where people can sign up to the email alerts triggered by the bitcoin trading algorithm I developed on TradingView. https://dipcatcher.com/
Then, i signed up for webflow, found a template I liked, and used it to draft some marketing copy. I embedded the bitcoin investment calculator I built with anvil into the webflow site and it just worked. Then I setup a webhook to send the webflow signup form data to my anvil endpoint where I save the user submission in my anvil db. It literally worked first try. This is the signup page
The request body looked like this:
{'name': 'Email Form',
'site': '5e604f32735e376d5427d',
'data': {'Email': 'hello@joinlook.com',
'Low Risk': 'true',
'Mid Risk': 'true',
'High Risk': 'false'},
'd': '2020-03-22T06:18:49.274Z',
'_id': '5e770349c79e1c5457b6c'}
Where ‘Email’, ‘Low Risk’, ‘Mid Risk’, and ‘High Risk’ are the names of the text field and checkboxes in my webflow form.
Here’s what the stack looks like:
This is a first draft, so theres still lots of Lorem Ipsum in the webflow site but you can still check it out.
https://dip-catcher.webflow.io/
The ‘buy bitcoin’ email alerts are live, so if you sign up, you probably only want to check low risk and mid risk because ‘High Risk’ alert sometimes sends up to 6 per day which can be overwhelming if you aren’t actively trading.
Since marketing/design people love Webflow, I think if we can promote anvil as the easiest way to build scalable backends for webflow sites we will attract an awesome new crop of folks to our community over here. I will continue to explore this front and share my findings.