Sonder Landing Page — Handoff to Abdul

Static landing page for yousonder.com. Replaces the current Lovable build. Built to brand v2.1 (Plum Black + Aurora Mint, Magician/Effortless archetype).

What this is

A single-file static site. No build step, no framework, no npm install. Three files (index.html, style.css, app.js) plus an assets/ folder. Open index.html in any browser and the whole site runs locally.

Tech stack:

• Vanilla HTML / CSS / JS — zero dependencies installed locally
• GSAP 3.12 (loaded from jsDelivr CDN, used for scroll choreography)
• Wistia Player (loaded from fast.wistia.com, used for the tutorial + showcase reels)
• Inter + Nunito fonts (loaded from Google Fonts)

That means deploying is just: upload the folder to any static host. That's it.

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How to deploy (pick one)

Option A — Vercel (recommended, free tier)

cd "Landing Page"
npx vercel

Drag the folder onto vercel.com → New Project → "Deploy as static." Vercel will give you a preview URL. Then add yousonder.com as a custom domain in Vercel project settings.

Option B — Netlify drop

1. Go to https://app.netlify.com/drop
2. Drag the entire Landing Page folder onto the drop zone.
3. Netlify gives you a URL immediately. Point yousonder.com to it via DNS.

Option C — Cloudflare Pages

1. Push to a Git repo, connect it to Cloudflare Pages.
2. Build command: (none). Output directory: (root). Deploy.

Option D — Anything that serves static files

S3 + CloudFront, GitHub Pages, traditional shared hosting — all fine. Just upload the folder. Set index.html as the default document.

Total page weight: ~25 MB once all hero frames are loaded (the bulk is the 168-frame scroll-driven hero video). On a modern CDN with image compression this delivers in 2–3 seconds on 4G.

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⚠️ Before going live — 4 things to wire up

These are placeholders right now. Search for the marker in the code, swap the value, and you're done.

1. CTA destinations

Search: https://yousonder.com/pricing Currently: every "Be seen →" button across the page points to yousonder.com/pricing (with ?tier=starter/?tier=author/?tier=studio/?tier=agency on the pricing-tier buttons). Action: confirm yousonder.com/pricing exists in the Sonder app. If the pricing page is somewhere else (/upgrade, /checkout, etc.) update the URLs.

2. Exit-intent form submission

File: app.js Search: [Sonder free-video claim] Currently: the form just console.logs the email + first name when submitted, then shows a "Welcome. Check your inbox" success state. Action: replace the console.log line with a real fetch() POST to whatever endpoint Sonder uses for leads — Mailchimp, HubSpot, ConvertKit, or a Sonder backend route. Payload object is already built ({ firstname, email, source, ts }).

3. Footer + nav links currently set to #

Search: href="#" Currently: these go nowhere — Sign in, Manifesto, Founders link in footer, Terms, Privacy, Contact. Action: wire each to its real destination. Or remove them from the footer if they don't have pages yet.

4. Wistia player permissions

The 9 Wistia videos are embedded by media-id. In Wistia → Customize → Embed & Share → check that embeds are allowed for the yousonder.com domain. If you don't add the production domain to the allowlist, the player will refuse to embed and show an error in production. Currently it works on localhost because Wistia permits localhost by default.

Wistia media-IDs in use (search data-wistia-id to see them all):

• Tutorial walkthrough: oenqanb3ej
• European Cartoon: le99g7qi7f
• Expert Podcaster: 1ymppelyqm
• Neon Wireframe: 2tnccunxqx
• Expert Panelist: xqg4ugdw8z
• Yellow Cartoon: ebeee2cm3z
• Expert Speaker: ejw6zhrgpo
• Skeleton: 66x1be2gyp2um9n (this is the share-ID, real media-id resolves automatically)
• Stick Figure: gi0j9axtu9roe4n (same)

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File structure & asset map

Landing Page/
├── index.html              # The page itself
├── style.css               # All styles
├── app.js                  # All JS (canvas scroll-driver, lightbox, pricing toggle, exit-intent, etc.)
├── README.md               # This file
│
├── assets/
│   ├── sonder-logo-plum-flat.svg     # Used as favicon
│   ├── sonder-logo-plum-night.svg    # Canonical brand mark
│   │
│   ├── frames/hero/                  # Hero scroll-driven video (168 JPEG frames @ ~50KB each, ~8MB total)
│   │   ├── frame_001.jpg
│   │   ├── ...
│   │   └── frame_168.jpg
│   │
│   ├── stills/                       # Showcase tile + tutorial thumbnails
│   │   ├── how-demo.jpg              # Tutorial walkthrough thumbnail (Nano Banana branded card)
│   │   ├── european-cartoon.jpg      # 8 showcase reels — one per Wistia video
│   │   ├── expert-podcaster.jpg
│   │   ├── neon-wireframe.jpg
│   │   ├── expert-panelist.jpg
│   │   ├── yellow-cartoon.jpg
│   │   ├── expert-speaker.jpg
│   │   ├── skeleton.jpg
│   │   └── stick-figure.jpg
│   │
│   ├── founders/                     # About Sonder section avatars
│   │   ├── lexi.jpg                  # 200×200 — replace with a higher-res shot when available
│   │   └── mike.jpg                  # 200×200 — same
│   │
│   ├── receipts/                     # Proof section customer screenshots
│   │   ├── forty-four-sales.jpg
│   │   ├── ten-sales-happy-dance.jpg
│   │   ├── lynn-dashboard.jpg
│   │   ├── lexi-profile.jpg
│   │   ├── lexi-insights.jpg
│   │   └── headline-numbers.png
│   │
│   └── images/                       # Section background photos (low-opacity ambient)
│       ├── stats-bg.jpg              # Behind the 2.9M views numbers (32% opacity)
│       └── final-bg.jpg              # Behind the closing "Be seen" section (28% opacity)
│
└── _source/                          # OPTIONAL — the raw hero MP4 master
    └── Test hero trimmed.mp4         # If you want to re-extract frames at different quality, the source is here.
                                      # Safe to delete if you don't need it. Frames are pre-extracted.

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How key pieces work (quick mental model for Abdul)

The scroll-driven hero

• 168 JPEG frames preload in parallel as the page loads (~8MB, lazy-batched by the browser).
• A <canvas> element fills the hero section. As the user scrolls through the hero's 320vh tall container, app.js calculates scroll progress (0→1) and draws the corresponding frame (0→167) onto the canvas.
• position: sticky keeps the canvas pinned during scroll.
• No GSAP needed for this — pure scroll + requestAnimationFrame.

The showcase reels (the marquee at the bottom of the Showcase section)

• 8 tiles + 8 duplicates = 16 elements scrolling left infinitely via CSS animation.
• Each tile is a <button data-reel data-wistia-id="..."> — clicking it opens the lightbox modal.
• The duplicates exist so the marquee loop is seamless (no visible reset jump).

The lightbox (showcase + tutorial)

• One shared modal markup at the bottom of <body> ([data-lightbox]).
• On click, JS creates a <wistia-player> element with the correct media-id, aspect (portrait or landscape), and autoplay="true". The Wistia player loads, autoplays, and the user closes via × button, backdrop click, or Esc.

Pricing toggle

• Top-right of the Pricing section. Two buttons (Monthly / Annual) + a sliding mint thumb.
• On click, JS swaps the price text by reading data-monthly / data-annual attributes on each .tier-num, .tier-pervideo, and the section headline's $6.97 span.
• The "Billed annually · save $X/year" line shows only when annual via .pricing[data-cycle="annual"] .tier-billed { display: block }.

Exit-intent modal

• Triggers on mouseleave with clientY <= 0 (cursor exits via the top edge of the viewport — signal of moving to close/back).
• On mobile: triggers after scrolling > 800px down then scrolling > 320px back up (intent-to-leave signal on touchscreens).
• 8-second arm delay so it never fires immediately on page load.
• Uses sessionStorage to only show once per session.

Cache-busting strategy

• When you swap an asset and the same filename, browsers may serve a stale cached copy. To force a refresh, append ?v=N to the src and bump N. Example currently in the codebase: how-demo.jpg?v=2.
• Better long-term: configure your host (Vercel/Netlify) to send proper cache-control: max-age=... and use content-hashed filenames. That's a 30-minute setup, optional.

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Brand reference

Full brand guidelines live in SONDER/Brand/ (separate from this folder). Key values used throughout:

• Plum Black #0A0613 — canvas
• Aurora Mint #7FFFD4 — signature accent
• Plum Glow #4A2F6E, Plum Mid #2D1A48, Plum Deep #1A0F2E — gradient halo stops
• Paper White #F5F5F7 — primary text
• Quiet Gray #8B8FA3 — secondary text
• Violet Shift #B794F4 — motion-only (used in CSS variable, currently unused since the violet-sweep moment was removed with the hero rewrite)

Fonts: Inter for everything except the Nunito 900 wordmark "Sonder".

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Questions for Mike (if anything in here is unclear)

Ping me — I'll connect you with the original author of these files. Otherwise: drag the folder onto Vercel, do the 4 wire-up tasks above, and you're live.

— Generated 2026-05-29 for the Sonder pre-launch handoff.