UI/UX designer and Framer developer with 4+ years across SaaS, fintech, education, and e-commerce. I build fast, distinctive, and conversion-focused websites. Portfolio of the Day on Designer Daily. Featured on Land Book, One Page Love.
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For all Framer and new Framer Agent fans, I suggest getting OpenAI's free API. You only need to share your data with their servers and data centers, but in exchange, you get quite generous free API usage limits. Re-arrange the landing page this way, not manually.
Framer 3.0 killed the marketplace
They removed template reviews. Now anyone can post anything without moderation. I have a feeling the marketplace is no longer needed for them, and they are shifting their focus entirely to AI agents.
Look, every prompt costs credits, and credits cost money. A landing page with an agent costs $5–10, and they want to change the whole process of creating pages with AI so people stop buying templates for $49.
No moderation — the marketplace is broken. Templates are low quality, and people are turning to agents to create things on their own.
Creators, people trusted Framer and built their reputation on this platform, and then, boom, we got this update. Framer chose recurring revenue from credits instead of an ecosystem of creators.
For a long time, I was thinking about moving into Framer template creation after working on client projects. But with this new system, I’d rather focus on my own business than work in this kind of environment or for potential clients.
Since Framer 3.0 was released, I have a few thoughts about launching a template business.
Discovery looks better on paper — profiles, community features, and everything feeling more connected.
But the potential reality for template creators:
- One creator on Reddit said his leads dropped from 80/day to 14/day
- Search returns only about 3 results and is barely usable
- Building great templates isn’t enough anymore; do you need an audience first?
- Some existing templates were removed with no explanation
So, is the era of “publish and it sells itself” officially over? Do Framer creators now need to be marketers, not just designers? Or are these just some hiccups in the first days after launch?
Let’s see how it goes, but right now I have a feeling that the bottleneck has shifted from building to distribution.
What I actually want in Framer (not more “AI” features)
- A real CMS - Ecommerce
- Better video tools
- A proper API - Stronger forms
- Project management notes
- Clean code export
- Phone number validation
- Native file uploads in forms
- Better form functionality overall
- Design tokens / variable management
- Text ellipsis support
- Localization that isn’t absurdly expensive
- Fluid responsive scaling (still waiting)
I genuinely love Framer—it’s the most comfortable place to build right now. I just want these basics done well, built-in, and maintained by Framer—not pushed off to outsourced plugins
Wow! Even now, you can create something like this in Framer. Unexpected, but cool.
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Man, I’m so happy to see Framer moving in this direction, guys! It’s going to be the most legendary platform ever—one that listens to what fans want and actually does the things that other platforms either don’t do or are way too slow to do. Framer, I love you! Framer team, I love you all! Everyone involved with Framer—you’re heroes.
