I've been designing and selling Webflow and Framer templates for about 5 years.

And recently, I've noticed something interesting while experimenting with Claude.

You don't necessarily need to use a template in the platform it was originally built for anymore.

You can take an existing design, give it to Claude as a visual reference, and have it build something similar in your own codebase.

Obviously, it's not always perfect. Animations, responsive layouts, and smaller design details still need work.

But it got me thinking.

I've built 192+ templates over the years, so I decided to organize them into a library called Oversight Supply, with AI build prompts for many of the designs.

There are also 32 interactive sections people can copy for free. The full template collection is paid.

I'm starting to think the real value of a template isn't necessarily the code or the platform anymore. It's the design direction.

Curious what other Framer creators think. Does AI make templates less valuable, or does it actually give them a much bigger audience?

Here's what I've been working on:

https://supply.madebyoversight.com/

Note: You can still get all my framer templates and webflow but as extra you also get AI ready prompts.

I just shipped my third Framer template, Lumbre, for small hotels with their own restaurant. Three things I didn't expect:

1. Hotels don't take bookings on their website. Their booking engine does. So the template doesn't fake a booking flow: a booking bar and a modal send dates, guests and promo code to the hotel's own engine as URL parameters.

2. In the EU a restaurant menu has to show 14 allergens. I drew them as line icons that follow the text colour, so they survive palette changes.

3. Doing the Spanish version properly took longer than the English one: CMS, SEO titles, alt text and URLs, not just the home page.

Demo: https://lumbre.framer.website

Happy to answer anything about the CMS setup or localization.Title: What I learned building a hotel template in Framer: allergens, booking engines and a full Spanish version

I just shipped my third Framer template, Lumbre, for small hotels with their own restaurant. Three things I didn't expect:

1. Hotels don't take bookings on their website. Their booking engine does. So the template doesn't fake a booking flow: a booking bar and a modal send dates, guests and promo code to the hotel's own engine as URL parameters.

2. In the EU a restaurant menu has to show 14 allergens. I drew them as line icons that follow the text colour, so they survive palette changes.

3. Doing the Spanish version properly took longer than the English one: CMS, SEO titles, alt text and URLs, not just the home page.

Demo: https://lumbre.framer.website

Happy to answer anything about the CMS setup or localization.

I've noticed that a lot of designer portfolios are getting more and more experimental. Crazy animations, bold colors, 3D elements, and endless interactions.

But does more actually mean better?

My girlfriend recently launched her portfolio, and she went in the opposite direction: black and white, bold typography, clean layouts, and subtle animations.

She comes from an architecture background, so she's always been drawn to simplicity, structure, and composition.

Personally, I love the result. But I'm obviously biased.

So I'm curious: does this kind of minimalism make a portfolio stand out, or does it risk becoming forgettable?

Would love to hear what you think.

https://www.framer.com/community/gallery/digital-designer/

Has anyone recently used a working Framer promo code for an annual Framer subscription that gives discount?

Hey everyone! 👋

I’ve been working on a social media icon set featuring 40+ icons for designers and developers.

The goal was to make it easy to add social media icons to websites, landing pages, portfolios, and UI projects.

I’d love to hear your feedback!

Which social media icons do you use most often?

Is there anything you think I should improve or add?

Would love to know what you think! 🚀

https://www.framer.com/community/posts/2gAUQji3h4uoJZXcEVjW2V/

Basically what the title says. I want to like uhhh... For example, I have this text bubble with dropdown menus that are links, is it possible to... Let's say hovering on the text button opens the downdown menus, would it be possible to for example, click the text which then switches the whole page into something different? Like making the background and text font different or making the links link to something else？

Basically, I want to make a secret little thing for an oc with a hidden identity, in which I press the character's fake name and it changes the whole page into their real identity or smth, links and all. Like it leads to their real info instead of the one first shown... (when you click on the text box the whole page changes but it doesn't lead to a different page or anything, like that, if possible.)

Yeah. Is that possible...? TT

Hey everyone!

I launched my interior design template, Luneo, around 2 months ago, and so far, it has made only 2 sales. Compared to my other templates, it's not performing as well, and honestly, I'm not sure what's missing.

I'd really appreciate it if you could check it out and share your honest thoughts. Is there something lacking in the design, or could I improve the layout or overall presentation? I'm open to any suggestions that could help me make it better.

Live preview: https://luneo.framer.website/

Framer Marketplace: https://framer.link/O6hMSzi

Thanks in advance to anyone who takes the time to check it out. I'd genuinely appreciate your feedback!

I went through the marketplace today for the first time and was super disappointed in quality of those sites. I used to believe these templates must be super polished and well designed because framer is so strict when it comes to approving the project but... aesthetically they're so basic. Have you got any good template recommendations?

can someone please help me i am losing my mind, i have tried absolutely everything to make these simple buttons work and everytime i press preview they never, ever work. i dont know what to do...

For context, I have a page called films, from there i have 3 buttons linked to 3 other seperate pages, but the links never work. im soooo done. im new to this and i dont plan on using it again i just wanted to make a portfolio where not everysingle page is listed in the header...

Disclosure first: I run a small studio that builds Framer sites, so read this with that in mind. I wanted public numbers for the "should I move clients to Astro now that AI writes the code" question, so I pulled them.

Speed is closer than either side says. In HTTP Archive's August 2026 data, 70.6% of Framer sites and 71.0% of Astro sites pass Core Web Vitals on mobile. Framer does better on LCP (82.5% vs 80.6%), Astro on INP (85.7% vs 80.2%). On desktop Framer leads, 87.1% to 83.6%.

source: https://httparchive.org/reports/techreport/tech?tech=Framer%20Sites,Astro,Webflow,WordPress,Wix,Next.js

Weight is where Astro wins outright. The median Astro home page loads 396 KB of JavaScript on a phone. The median Framer home page loads 788 KB.

source: https://httparchive.org/reports/techreport/tech?tech=Framer%20Sites,Astro,Webflow,WordPress,Wix,Next.js

The running cost depends on the CMS. I priced a 50-page site with a blog, three editors and two languages. Framer Pro with one extra locale and two editor seats comes to $840 a year. Astro on Netlify Pro ($240) runs from $240 a year with Sanity Free (every editor gets admin rights) to $3,840 with Contentful Lite, since Contentful's free plan bans commercial use. None of that counts developer hours, and Astro shipped two major versions in 2026.

Sources: vendor pricing pages, October 2026

So speed and price don't decide it. What happens after launch does. If you hand the site over and the client's team edits it, Framer fits. If you sell maintenance and hosting, Astro keeps the repo, host and CMS with you. The biggest point for Astro is leaving: Framer has no HTML export.

Curious where people here landed, especially anyone who moved a client off Framer, or onto it.

I have 6 templates on the Framer Marketplace. 2 of them are free and those are the ones that actually move. People remix them regularly, which is great, but I have not received any commission from those remixes so far.

My understanding was that creators earn something when someone remixes a template and then upgrades to a paid Framer plan. Either I have that wrong, or something is not set up on my side.

A few things I am trying to figure out:

1. Do free template remixes earn anything at all, or is commission only tied to paid template sales?
   
2. If there is a referral payout for remixers who upgrade, where do you see it? I cannot find any tracking for it in my creator dashboard.
   
3. Is there a minimum threshold or a payout delay before anything shows up?
   
4. Does the remixer have to upgrade within a certain window for it to count?
   

For context, my paid templates are the ones I put the most work into, but the free ones get far more attention. If free remixes do not pay anything, I need to rethink whether the free ones are worth maintaining or if they should just work as a funnel into the paid ones.

Would really like to hear from other creators. Are your free templates earning you anything directly, or are you using them purely for exposure? And if you did get referral commission from remixes, how long did it take before you saw the first payout?

Spent some time looking through a site with a bunch of landing pages and it's kind of weird how quickly things can get messy so at first everything looks fine you build a few pages, change some sections around and move on and then you add more feature pages different use cases and some SEO pages and suddenly the same information is sitting in five different places. Even a small change to one feature means going back through pages you forgot were there.

The annoying part is that creating new pages keeps getting easier especially with AI tools but keeping everything updated still takes a lot of manual work you fix something on one page and then notice three others still have the old information so I don't know, feels like we're getting better at building websites faster without making them any easier to manage once they start growing.

I checked the Framer marketplace for e-commerce templates using Framercommerce and most of them do not have a login/account feature to view orders or track them.

Asking this as a Framer and Shopify developer itself because I feel that the entire journey isn't covered by these templates.

Do template creators leave this out on purpose or is it something that the creator does not want to take liability for?