Artem Meshkov
Designing and building production-ready websites and templates in Framer. Open for collaborations.
More than 10 days without a single sale or affiliate commission. Then this happened. Looks like it’s my second template generating it.
Yesterday I had an interesting conversation with my former design mentor that made me rethink something. A year or two ago, I used to think web design was much more at risk from AI, while product design felt like the safer path. Now I'm not so sure. A lot of product design is becoming easier to automate too, especially work built around established patterns and systems. Ironically, the things that still feel hardest to replace are creativity, visual taste, and empathy. Curious how you see it.
Just read Webflow's latest article, Getting to the Source, and it actually changed the way I think about webflow. I always knew you could export code, but I never really thought about the fact that you can't bring it back. Their explanation of the layer between the visual editor and the final code made a lot of today's limitations make sense. What I found even more interesting wasn't the architecture itself, but the problem they're trying to solve. Building a website is only the beginning. The real challenge is everything that comes after: designers, developers, marketers, and AI all making changes to the same project. That's something I wrote about after experimenting with AI coding a while back. Generating a project is getting easier every day. Iterating on it is the hard part. The idea of making code the single source of truth, with the visual editor and AI simply becoming two different ways to work with the same project, is a really interesting direction. Curious to see where this goes.
Working on my next Framer template, and this is one of those cases where an AI agent genuinely saved me time.
Sticky cards themselves are easy to build natively in Framer. But I wanted each card to slightly scale back as the next one scrolls over it. Since this section is driven by a CMS collection, that effect isn't nearly as straightforward.
A small override generated by the AI agent solved it in a few minutes and added much more depth to the interaction.
I’ve been looking through templates from other creators on the Framer Marketplace, and noticed everyone approaches breakpoints a bit differently. Some use the default 1200px as their base, others go with 1320px, 1400px, etc. Some add an extra breakpoint above the base, while others just work down from desktop to tablet and mobile. Curious — what breakpoint range do you usually use, and what is your choice based on?
(A little behind-the-scenes look at my next template 👀)
I often come across one criticism of @framer when watching videos about Framer and Webflow: that it still lacks some basic functionality that real businesses actually need. Multi-step forms are one example. For those of you building real client projects in Framer — have you ever actually hit a limitation you couldn’t work around? Maybe an integration you couldn’t connect, functionality you couldn’t build, or a solution that existed but was way too expensive? Curious to hear about your experience.
Trying to understand why my second Framer template has been doing much better than my third. On paper, the third one is a bigger project: more pages, more CMS collections, and a lot more work went into it. Yet it has only one sale so far, while the second one keeps getting a few sales every month. I honestly can't figure out why. If anyone has thoughts or has seen something similar with their own templates, I'd genuinely love to hear them.
I’ve seen people mention adding AI prompts to Framer templates a few times recently. What exactly is that? What are the use cases, and why would someone actually need it?
A question for people doing Framer client work. Where do most of your projects actually come from? X, LinkedIn, Contra, referrals, your templates, or somewhere else? I’m trying to figure out where it’s worth investing my time over the next few months, so I’d really appreciate hearing what’s been working for you.
Quick update on the payout situation.
Everything's sorted now. It turned out to be a technical issue, and the Contra team helped me figure it out really quickly.
Thanks to everyone who shared ideas, and a big thanks to the Contra team for the fast support. 🙌
Has anyone else run into this?
About a week ago, after receiving some really nice feedback from a customer, I decided to increase the price of one of my templates.
I updated it in Contra and on the Framer Marketplace, and both now show the new price.
Today someone purchased the template, but the payout I received matches the old price.
Am I missing something, or is this expected? 🤔
I was in the shower after my workout, and the whole time I couldn't stop thinking about Framer, Webflow, the template business, and everything that's changed since Framer 3.0.
Then I got out, checked my email, and saw that someone had bought one of my templates.
I don't know... it just felt nice.
A question for framer template creators. I’m especially curious to hear from people who started around 6–12 months ago, not the creators who’ve been doing this for years. How many templates do you have now? Have you reached a stable monthly income? And how has Framer 3.0 affected your results so far? Better, worse, or about the same? Just trying to get a more realistic picture of what this journey looks like today.
A question for those already using Framer’s built-in AI Agent.
I create templates and occasionally work on client websites, so I’d like to use the Agent across multiple projects within the same workspace.
How does the subscription work in this case? Is it enough to keep one paid site in the workspace and use its AI credits and Agent access across all the other projects?
Or does each individual site or template need its own subscription to use the Agent properly?
Is there a separate option for creators who work across multiple projects?
And how are you personally handling this?
I’m specifically asking about Framer’s built-in Agent, not external tools like Claude Code or Codex.
+$22.46 today.
affiliate update. It’s not life-changing money, but it’s nice to see the referrals slowly adding up.
A quick update on my UI8 experiment.
It's been about a month since I uploaded two Framer templates there, and I've made a grand total of $2.54. So yeah... for me, this experiment has been a complete flop.
Back then, some people warned me not to upload my paid templates because they'd end up in the subscription library. Turns out they had a point.
I wanted to remove one of the templates, but I couldn't find any option to do it. Maybe you have to contact support, maybe I just missed it. For now, I simply changed its price to $100.
Anyway, I know a few people were curious about how this experiment would turn out, so here's the update. At least for me, UI8 just isn't worth the effort.
Spent some time today working on my fourth Framer template, and it reminded me of my favorite use case for AI agents. CMS. I tell the agent what collection I need, mention a few fields if necessary, and let it do the rest. By the time I come back with a glass of water, the collection is ready, the content is filled in, and even the images are there. What used to take me 30–60 minutes now starts with a single prompt and is done a few minutes later.
If your entire design feed is just Framer templates and Twitter concepts, you're probably limiting your own taste without realizing it.
I still regularly browse agency websites, Awwwards, Landbook, and other galleries. That's where I find ideas, layouts, and design approaches that don't usually make their way into template galleries or concept feeds.
Templates are built to be reusable. Agency work is built to stand out.
Both have value, but if you only consume one, your work will eventually start looking the same.
