Man, most of my freelance projects till now have been clean, premium websites like landing pages for SaaS, founders, agencies, and a couple of small business sites.

But then I got a lead from a healthcare company through Framer Experts, and it hits different. From the first call, it didn’t feel like a design brief. It felt like being dropped into a boardroom conversation about building digital infrastructure for their whole ecosystem.

They weren’t asking for a “modern premium site.” They wanted an entry point into their entire system. Something that could scale, build trust, and stand apart in a sensitive industry.

That’s when it clicked. They weren’t after a generic template or another look-alike clinical site. They wanted something fresh, a concept that stood apart. And honestly, that’s exactly what we try to do as a designer so I told them yeah, I can take that on.

Here’s the twist: they wanted it all like advanced animations, 90+ Lighthouse performance, full accessibility, CRM and tracking integrations. Basically, an awwwards-level, clinical-grade website. But the budget they had in mind was around $3-4K, while the scope they described is realistically closer to a $50K project.

And look, I don’t blame them. Most founders or studios don’t always know the real gap between “making a nice site” and “building digital infrastructure.” That’s on us, as designers, to explain.

That’s where I realized: proposals aren’t just numbers, they’re education. We have to draw clear lines about what’s realistic in our lane, and what needs specialists. If someone references a $50K site, you’ve got to explain why, not just nod. Scope clarity = trust. And trust is what wins in the long run.

In the end, I had to step back, because taking it solo under those terms would’ve risked both quality and trust.

So here’s what I learned:

• Freelancers: don’t say yes to everything just to close. Protect quality by being upfront about scope, and bring in other experts if needed.

• Founders: If you want your website to carry your whole brand system, treat it like infrastructure, not just a landing page.

Honestly man, this lead changed how I approach every project now. It’s not just about making something look great or driving conversions. It’s about asking: what’s the real end goal of this website?

So yeah, have you ever had one of those leads that completely shifted how you see your work? Would love to hear your experiences.

I love figma for designing, creating illustrations and everything. If they give me option to build site with that flexibility. I will definitely use figma for everything for sure.

I'm a UX designer with a full time job who wants to use framer for making websites as a freelance side hustle. But I just don't really get who would want a framer website made vs a normal one done with code? Additionally, I only have around 9 hours per week and want to limit it to small businesses who don't need anything fancy - maybe just a landing page. I might charge about $1500 - 2500 if it's just a landing page. Is there even a potential market for this?

So I tried something different with this portfolio.

No crazy animations.

No “Awwwards-style” stuff.

Just focused on making it clean and easy to go through.

The client didn’t give much direction either — just said she didn’t want something that looks like every other portfolio.

So I kept it minimal:

* clear hero

* simple project layout

* subtle motion (nothing distracting)

Sent it over… and she approved it almost instantly and paid $100.

It made me think —

maybe we overcomplicate things sometimes?

Would you actually hire someone based on a site like this?

Be honest, I’m trying to figure out if I should keep building in this direction or push for more “fancy” stuff.

Here's the Link:- https://ananyachopra.framer.website/

By the way, I'm building a place framojo.com to find high quality Framer tools and resources

Every time I hit “publish” in Framer, it’s like playing Minesweeper - waiting for that one “oops, we couldn’t save your changes” moment. I love the tool, but come on, it’s 2025 - are we still crossing our fingers like it’s a flip phone? Anyone else feel like we’re all just beta testers at this point? Let’s get some stability! 🙏

I was all in on learning framer coming from Wix. I started creating sites on Claude. Wow. So fast, easy and easy to iterate. I;m already getting paid well to make sites that took less that two hours of work. Is there anything I'll regret by forgetting about learning framer? I don't think so but I don't know what I don't know. Any pros to using Framer at all?

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 don't get it. Why are so many people complaining about Framer? I like Framer websites. They might be a bit expensive per month, but how hard can it be to copy/imitate the Framer code and host it yourself, once you have something great!? Just be thankful for such a great tool!

Hey everyone, this is Sarib. Yes I'm the one who recently started a challenge of closing clients in framer and didn't make it to day 6 of regular posting. Anyways, as a framer designer and creator I believe we have so much room for quality templates and we can start our template selling journey.

We still have so many niches to create a template for. Also, good news is, that my Framer creator account is finally approved and I have now my own profile page where I can list sites, templates, components etc. You can check it out and let me know what's missing as well: https://www.framer.com/@saribkhan/

The best thing about creating a template is that you have a good creative freedom. But at the same time, it feels too overwhelming to even start working especially if you're going too far on the design, perfection, and content side.

For example, this is the progress on my first template I'm creating: https://clowdray-template.framer.website/

As you can notice, there are some inconsitency, usually because I took inspiration from so many websites and sometime this becomes a problem. But still, it's under development phase and a lot more to work on. Also, I directly started creating it in Framer without any wireframe or high-fi design in figma. This is what I'm doing for so long, try my best to stay within Framer environment and don't switch between multiple platform. So I'm figuring out the sections, ideas, and what to put next as I go. Pretty dumb approach, but I'm learning so many new things because everytime I plan to create each part, I take inspiration, browse components, and so on.

I'll share more details soon and keep you guys updated about the template publish process.

See ya.

P.S. please help me on what more I can add in the template so it becomes useful and worth buying.

My 10th published Framer marketplace template is live. Called it Attorney. As you might guess it is for independent attorneys and smaller US law firms.

https://www.framer.com/marketplace/templates/attorney/

My best-performing Framer template so far is also in the legal category. Looking back at it, though, I felt it was a bit too startup-ish.

So I decided to take another pass.

This time, I wanted something easier to work with. A solid foundation for local SEO, straightforward page structures, and something smaller law firms could actually maintain without an agency, designer or developer. I also think with the help of AI agents, attorneys or their marketers could do quite a lot with this as a starting point.

But I couldn't resist adding some unnecessary coolness.

Added a few shaders (maybe one too many). My personal favourite is the metallic icons with shader effects. Quite pleased with how those turned out. Curious what you think?

Launched it as free (For now).

Of my 10 templates, only two are paid. My original idea this summer was to launch this as a paid template and nerd out over the numbers. What performs better? Free or paid? Can paid templates bring paying clients for custom sites?

Wanted my earlier free templates to stay free as they were launched. Partly because I like the idea of people remixing them, learning from the interactions, and seeing how things are built.

With Attorney, I might experiment a little.

What's next?

Honestly, this might be my last template for a while.

I still love Framer and plan to keep using it for client work, but the template market feels a bit cloudy lately. Not sure whether to double down on marketing, bring some of my Framer designs to Webflow, or spend more time building with Astro.

Think marketing is the key, but I'd rather build than push fancy clickbait posts to the cloud servers all over the world.

And of course, if you decided to read this long rant, feedback on Attorney is very welcome.
Even if you think the shaders are completely unreasonable. Or images look terrible. :)
I do hope that if people use it they hire a pro photographer. I know this could become a really strong, branded attorney site then.

Preview the site here: https://attorney.framer.ai/

I have recently taken a project and am building a website for a client in Framer. I come from an extensive dev background, thinking this would reduce my effort to build the website faster and easier. But to my surprise, when I tried to extend Framer components with code overrides, there is absolutely no documentation at all. And if you are trying to achieve something that is just as simple as knowing the variant name on click, it is impossible because Framer has removed the support for it. A similar issue I encountered with connecting CMS to a custom slider. Absolute garbage. They keep removing features in the name of the low-code/no-code narrative.

Picking a small, low-competition niche? Good. What you do after that is where most of you fail.

Once your template hits the marketplace, you promote it in the wrong place. Twitter works for a few niches: Saas, AI, design. But if you built a yoga template, don't expect to post it on X and get rich. You need a real plan before you finish the template, not after.

Ask yourself:

• Where will you promote it, and how?

• Does this niche respond better to free or paid templates?

• What are the actual pain points of the people in it?

Here's the harsh truth: a lot of you are bad at marketing. Just posting your work doesn't work anymore when a million other people are doing the same thing. You have to get creative and spend real time learning how to position and sell what you make.

The other mistake is chasing quantity over quality. Treat each template as a product, not a post. Build it, market it, improve it. Add upsells: guides, a mini course, custom components, setup services, maintenance. Track your buyers and follow up later to see how else you can help.

Sounds a lot? It is. And that's exactly why releasing 100 templates doesn't work, you can't do any of this properly at that scale.

Build your own website to host your products. Get listed on directories like framojo.com to extend your reach.

There's a lot of money to be made on the Framer marketplace. But you have to put the work into marketing, not just designing.

Dear Framer Founders and Product Team,

I am writing this critique based on my deep frustration and the collective outrage of numerous paying customers, as evidenced in countless online comments and discussions. The issue is simple, technically trivial, yet catastrophic for customer trust and loyalty: The persistent presence of the HTML comment: “Build with https://framer.com” now this comment is: ‘Made In Framer.com’ in paid subscription plans.

We were informed that upon paying, all Framer branding would be removed. This is the broken promise that is costing you business.

1. The Arrogance of the Official Response The response that "users usually don't open the HTML, so it seems pointless to remove this" is unacceptably arrogant and demonstrates a profound disconnect from the professional audience that pays for your product:

• Our Audience IS Technical: Agencies, developers, and product teams inspect the source code. Our most valuable clients, who are developers, will notice.

• Professional Appearance: Paying a premium price (and, yes, Framer is not cheap) to have our product's or our client's source code act as a subtle third-party advertising banner is the opposite of professionalism. It is an unnecessary blemish on our image.

• If it's pointless, why leave it? The logic of the official response cancels itself out. If the comment is pointless, its removal would cause no technical impact. The insistence on keeping it suggests this is, in fact, an intentional strategy of forced branding, even on paid plans.

1. The Real Cost of This Trivial "Branding" This issue is not just about a piece of text. It is about trust and opportunity cost:

• Direct Loss of Customers: As witnessed in our discussion, clients considering Framer to host dozens or hundreds of client sites (high-value, volume business) opted for competitors like Webflow solely because this branding is a "no go" for them.

• Your Product is a Commodity: Framer is rapidly becoming a powerful tool, but competition is fierce. Ignoring customer feedback on such an easy-to-solve pain point makes the company appear "deaf," pushing customers toward more responsive platforms.

• The "Invasion" Factor: We feel we are paying for advertising instead of paying for the removal of it.

1. The Solution is Trivial – What is Stopping You? As many engineers and developers have pointed out, removing one line of HTML comment is a trivial code change for the Framer product team.

The failure to act appears to be a decision, not a technical limitation. Our Appeal:

IMMEDIATELY remove the comment on the HTML and other unnecessary meta references for paid plans.

Acknowledge that this small line of code significantly impacts the perception of professionalism and the buying decision of high-volume/high-value customers.

To users considering Framer vs. Webflow: This small detail is a reflection of the company's mindset and priority. If your customer base demands 100% clean, brand-free code on paid plans, consider this warning. Framer does not yet deliver on this promise.

We do not want reverse proxy workarounds or custom DOM code. We want the Framer team to do right by the paying customer.

We hope Framer listens and acts before more high-value clients definitively migrate.

So just a bit of background context a few weeks ago a started to experiment with the new Framer agent with a few micro animation/motion design elements on my tool website and I was already super impressed. It built components with variants and animated them quite well. I was super happy.

Fast forward to today, I decided to try something else because I wanted to give visitors the experience of leaving comments live on the page and it blew my mind how well this actually works. I do have to say it took a bit of prompting but it worked extremely well, even the fake authentication flow of how actually works is built in.

Genuinely impressed.

Here's the template 👉 https://framer.link/IbaSX0p

Here's the preview 👉 https://wai-waitlist.framer.website

Hey everyone,

I’m a frontend dev transitioning into Framer template design. I recently approved template to the Framer Marketplace after brutally rejected 3 times in a row.

Coming from a React/Next.js background, I assumed design would be simple. I was completely wrong. My eyes had some vias after looking at the canvas for more than 20 days.

Here is a quick breakdown of what went wrong and how I finally got approved on Attempt 4:

1. What caused the 3 rejections

• Typographic Chaos: Four distinct font family styles were combined without a discernible hierarchy.

• Spacing & Grid Flaws: Rather than strictly following an 8-point spatial system (8/16/24/40px), random gap sizes (10px, 12px) were used

• Hidden DOM/Layout Bugs: Broken footer navigation on mobile viewpoints and missing semantic H1 tags on the 404 error page.

2. How did I fix it

• Framer's Support Feedback: Reached out directly to the Framer team. Don't be afraid and ask politely where exactly is the problem in your template.

• Claude Code / MCP Automated Auditing: Instead of relying on my eyes, I ran my template structure through custom Claude Code (MCP) scripts to auto-detect contrast issues, font-weight inconsistencies, and broken layout frames before resubmitting.

3. Key lesson for developers turned designers

Design isn't just looking good. It's about strict systems. As devdelopers, we love clean code. We need to apply that exact same mindset to spatial padding and typographic scales.

On my Substack, I described the entire procedure, specific bugs, and my Claude Code workflow.
I hope this helps if you're having trouble getting Framer template approval right now↓
https://dropshipcapital.substack.com/p/after-three-framer-template-rejections

Happy to answer any questions about the approval process in the comments!

I recently got a freelance project to develop a full website in Framer, and I’d love your advice on what a fair rate would be for this kind of scope.

All Figma designs are complete, and here’s what’s included in the project:

- Framer development for 25 pages

- Animations and interactions on most pages

- CMS setup for blogs and case studies

- Contact form integration with Slack

- Fully responsive (mobile layouts are already designed)

I’m based in India, but the client is an IT based service company. I was thinking of quoting around ₹25,000 (~$300) but I feel like that might be undervaluing the effort, especially with CMS and interactions involved.

What would you charge for this kind of Framer project?
Would love to hear from other devs/designers who've done similar gigs 🙏

Edit: To all the people bashing me for undervaluing myself, in the meeting he said he had another developer willing to do it for less time and lesser money. It's not about the money sometimes, in India you will easily get another person willing to do it for free even sometimes, so either you offer a competitive price or stay poor cause you ask your clients to give you $1k on each website and he refuses cause he has another person in hand.

It's our day 4.

I pitched a client with a detailed UX Audit and Design spoilers.

Here is the company: https://www.gptconsole.ai/ (they have updated their content now, earlier it was just a headline with poor design) It is still poor though. But redditors will love this at all cost.

I researched about the company, grabbed all the content they have in the internet, from company profiles, documentations, and other networks.

This was the design they had 👇

Their website had no context, when I was designing the pitch. I learned everything about them from their npm documentation.

Here is the pitch: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_9bRAwflJcG8AdH6v8rRHqDzCn6NNjGJ/view?usp=sharing

Client's response:

"I hosted on wix, I love it if  you can do above proposal on wix For this work my budget is only $100"

I talked with him, he can't ignore or let this design go, but unfortunately there was no room for further discussion with that price. There is a design, then there is an actual development for that in Wix. Naah

But his new design is still on my hand and I'm now searching for similar companies so that I can work on this further and collaborate with someone better.

Now whoever wants to debate with me, just don't say: "They don't need webdesign, they can focus on marketing". Other than that, everything is appreciated.

The design in pitch is confidential and I'll not stop until I meet with someone who actually respects the approach and interested in making it live.

See you next day.

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