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one evening, I just sat down and thought to myself, “hey, what if I created an inspiration website?”
the market is already saturated—there are plenty of inspiration sites out there, and some.select doesn’t really add anything new, except for a “blog” section where I talk about the sites I’ve curated and web design in general, unfiltered, as I usually do.
I still have a couple of things to improve, but that’s “build in public”—we build first and think later.
I'm so back. sidebay.supply
great work deserves the right space to be seen.
the creative template bundle brings together five premium framer templates — rennes, zilo, dellen, nokue, and guery — each with its own personality, but all designed with the same attention to clarity, detail, and thoughtful design.
whether you're building a portfolio, presenting client work, or shaping a studio's online presence, this collection gives you the flexibility to choose the style that feels right without compromising on quality. clean layouts, refined interactions, and carefully crafted foundations make it easy to create something that feels uniquely yours.
Simeon Sh is a SaaS platform, part of the Moverism Corp group, built to aggregate multiple revenue streams into a single dashboard. The product itself was technical, and the challenge was translating that complexity into a landing page simple enough to convert cold visitors — people with no prior context — into waitlist signups within seconds of arriving.
inghau is my first SaaS template for Framer and it took longer than expected to ship.
kept rebuilding the pricing section and the hero because nothing felt right. too generic, too startup-y, too much like every other SaaS template that could be for any product that doesn't exist yet.
third version stuck. it's live now. $99.
Charles has spent years building a career as a photographer, developing a distinct eye and a body of work that speaks for itself in person — but none of it existed anywhere online. Every new client relationship depended entirely on word of mouth or whatever scattered images happened to circulate on social media, with no central place for a prospect to actually evaluate his range or consistency before reaching out.
zilo is built for architecture and real estate studios. the kind of work where the images are the argument and the site just needs to get out of the way.
most architecture templates either over-design around the visuals or under-design everything else. zilo is structured around one idea: large format imagery that breathes, with just enough context to make someone pick up the phone.
rennes is for agencies that have been around long enough to have something to say. not just a portfolio — a full site with case studies, an about page that means something, a jobs section, articles.
the thing about established agency sites is they need to convey seniority without feeling stiff. rennes tries to do that. confident layout, no gimmicks, the kind of site that looks like it was made by people who've done this for a while.
it's a portfolio template for designers and photographers. the whole brief was: the template should disappear behind the work.
most portfolio templates compete for attention but this one doesn't. that was harder to build than it sounds and still one of my favorites in the catalogue.
guery is the template I built for marketing agencies and startups that need their site to actually generate leads. not just look like they could.
the problem with most agency templates is they optimize for aesthetics first. the conversion path is an afterthought. guery tries to resolve both at the same time — clean enough to feel credible, specific enough to feel human.
a site that looks good and does nothing is just an expensive business card.
dellen is the sidebay template I built for video people and it's also been the best-selling item since I switched to framer to sell digital products.
the thing that annoyed me about other video portfolio templates is they're built for static work with a video embed stuck in. the video always feels like an afterthought.
dellen is the other way around. Video first, everything else second.
teanau is the free template I made for designers who just need something clean to put their work out there. no noise, no overdesigned hero section, just a list of projects that does the job.
most free portfolio templates feel like a compromise. teanau doesn't. it's the same level of craft as the paid ones, I just wanted there to be a decent starting point that didn't cost anything.
free doesn't mean basic. it means you have no excuse to not ship.
