I've never been someone who enjoys building an audience, chasing engagement, or posting for the sake of posting. My approach has always been simple: keep working, keep learning, and try to produce the best work I can.

For a while, I was already noticing that newer templates weren't performing like they used to, even though I genuinely believe they were better than some of my earlier work. Sales were becoming harder to come by.

Since the new Marketplace launched, things have dropped off dramatically for me.

As an example, Loginord reached the Top 10 on Framer-Ranks and was easy to find on the Marketplace homepage. Today it's ranked below #2,500. The same has happened to most of my templates.

That makes it difficult to know what to do next. I'll finish the template I'm currently working on because I had already invested time into it and I want to see it through. After that, I'll need to take a step back and seriously rethink what the next chapter looks like. Right now, I honestly don't know.

I'm also with the feeling that, after years of contributing to the ecosystem, Framer no longer really needs creators like you.

At the same time, I have to be fair and acknowledge the other side of the story. The template submission process pushed me to become a much better designer. It forced me to think more systematically, pay attention to details, improve my processes, and raise the quality of my work. The opportunities that came from building templates have had a huge impact on my career, and I'm genuinely grateful for that.

Maybe this is simply another moment where we need to adapt. I'm just not entirely sure what that adaptation looks like yet.

I've never been someone who enjoys building an audience, chasing engagement, or posting for the sake of posting. My approach has always been simple: keep working, keep learning, and try to produce the best work I can.

For a while, I was already noticing that newer templates weren't performing like they used to, even though I genuinely believe they were better than some of my earlier work. Sales were becoming harder to come by.

Since the new Marketplace launched, things have dropped off dramatically for me.

As an example, Loginord reached the Top 10 on Framer-Ranks and was easy to find on the Marketplace homepage. Today it's ranked below #2,500. The same has happened to most of my templates.

That makes it difficult to know what to do next. I'll finish the template I'm currently working on because I had already invested time into it and I want to see it through. After that, I'll need to take a step back and seriously rethink what the next chapter looks like. Right now, I honestly don't know.

I'm also with the feeling that, after years of contributing to the ecosystem, Framer no longer really needs creators like you.

At the same time, I have to be fair and acknowledge the other side of the story. The template submission process pushed me to become a much better designer. It forced me to think more systematically, pay attention to details, improve my processes, and raise the quality of my work. The opportunities that came from building templates have had a huge impact on my career, and I'm genuinely grateful for that.

Maybe this is simply another moment where we need to adapt. I'm just not entirely sure what that adaptation looks like yet.