r/webflow

Hey everyone,

I am 20 years old developer/tech student based in Europe. Over the past few years, I’ve built and launched dozens of SaaS tools, with my recent focus squarely on the Webflow and Framer plugin ecosystems.

These are a few of my Webflow/Framer projects:

• Bulk Component Deleter (bulkcomponentdeleter.com)
• SEOFabric (seofabric.com – acquired)
• FlareRank (acquired)
• SEO Analyzer (marketplace)

As a student I came to a crossroad in my life where I have to chose between getting a job and continuing building interesting stuff, and I came to a "maybe" solution that it might work:

I partner with a Webflow agency and I build premium extensions for them in exchange for a monthly fee.

The Offer:

• 1 New Extension Every 30 Days**:** Built from scratch, fully tested, and ready for production (can be an internal workflow utility for your team or a public marketplace app to generate inbound design leads).
• You own 100% of every extension I build for you: You own the code, GitHub repos, branding, and all marketplace revenue.
• Delivery: I handle the entire lifecycle, scoping, logic, UI integration, and navigating the official marketplace approval/transfer processes. And future updates if you need more.
• Pricing: $700/month flat. Cancel anytime, you keep everything built up to that point.

Why work with me?

• Experience**:** I am very knowledgeable about the Webflow and Framer Designer APIs/
• No extra stress for you: I started coding at 15 when AI was not around and I basically taught myself from the ground up. We have one meeting at the beginning of the month discussing what needs to be done and I will send you progress notifications every week.
• I only want to have one single partnership, if anyone decides to work with me I will edit this post and not receive any other requests.

I want to make this a no brainer. If we hop on a quick call/we can talk in DM and agree on the first month's scope, I’ll build a functional prototype within the first 48 hours and send a Loom demo before you commit a single dollar. If you don’t like the quality, we walk away, no friction.

I’ve been tracking every single Webflow update for a while now, and the sheer volume of changes since July 1st has been relentless.

I just did a deep dive into the latest ones, and honestly? It’s a bit of a mixed bag. I’m curious how you guys are handling this. Does anyone else feel like we’re being forced to learn "AI: Claude, Gemini, Chat GPT.etc" just to keep up with basic dev tasks, rather than focusing on actual design and code?

TLDR (lol)

• CMS Field Grouping: Finally here, and it's a 9/10 update imo.
• ChatGPT/MCP 2.0 Integration: Powerful, but keep an eye on those AI credit costs—it’s getting sneaky. Like when Webflow just made auto-generation of Alt text, Title tags, or Schema use AI credits when it used to be 100% free... sneaky.
• Bulk Form Options: Huge time saver for forms, especially with AI help.
• Data Attributes: You can now paste in the name + value together - nifty.
• The "Enterprise Pivot": Feels like every other Webflow change is optimizing for massive teams, not us solo freelancers (as in it's mostly non-applicable).
• The MCP 2.0 and CHAT GPT integration: This is by far the biggest update, and it actually works lol!

If you enjoyed this video I made a playlist of all previous updates
👉https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPm5KDlrbfTeatMG3enXnkWtxKD2d5iKT

What are your thoughts on the latest updates?

Derek

Hi all, I'm very new to WebFlow and would love some help. I'm trying to create a custom cursor (in the shape of a star) that has a kind of sparkly trail behind it, like a shooting star. I was able to create the custom cursor by adding a .svg that has a "follow mouse" interaction, however I'm not sure how to add the little trail. And I haven't been able to find any resources online on how to do something like this.

Any help would be appreciated!

Looking for a chatbot that can answer questions about my services based on what's already on my site.

What's the easiest option that works well with

Webflow?

Hi, I work as a Solopreneur but showcase myself as an agency. And I want to apply for the Webflow Partner Program, but I can't seem to figure out if it's better to apply for the Partner Program as a Freelancer or as Agency? (Image is attached for reference)

Does it make any difference?

If I join as a Freelancer, will I be able to showcase myself as an Agency on Webflow's website and vice versa?

https://preview.redd.it/mstng574w5kh1.png?width=1050&format=png&auto=webp&s=c7c5344f356fc67d4f70ec88f360081bff001b84

I'm trying to create a hero component for a client, and give them the option to upload any background video. I want to create a property for background video so that they could upload it from the Build mode.

I can't figure out how to link the background video as a property so that they could just upload a file. Is there really no way to do this? There's gotta be a way.

Our Webflow site has gotten out of hand with combo classes - elements stacking 3-4 classes where one or two should do, utility combos used as quick fixes, and duplicate styles doing the same thing under different names.

We’d like to stay away from doing a full rebuild, as we have a short timeline. I want to know if there's a faster way to audit and consolidate these.

Specifically:
- Is there a reliable way to identify which combo classes are redundant or only used once?

- Has anyone found a good workflow for merging combo classes back into base styles without things breaking?

- Any audit tools inside or outside Webflow that give you a useful overview of style usage across a project?

The built-in style manager shows unused classes but doesn't give much beyond that. Curious if anyone's solved this more efficiently.

Thank you!

Hello guys , I could really use your help here , I have been using this portfolio for a while now but I don’t understand what’s happening

I am not getting any roles, for context I am a senior product designer with 8 years plus experience but I am still finding it hard to land a role

This is the proof of work here that I attached , please could you help me take a look and give feedback, currently hunting , I am so pressed so I have to do this

For people building client websites regularly, what has actually worked for collecting everything you need?

Copy, logos, photos, service details, contact information, testimonials, brand files, approvals, etc.

I’ve seen people use drive folders, forms, notion pages, email threads and project management tools.

The organization part seems solvable.

The harder question is whether the client actually completes everything without someone noticing what’s missing and following up.

Has anyone found a process where clients can work through it gradually and it mostly runs without manual chasing?

Or is follow-up just part of client work no matter what system you use?

I spent around 3 months learning Framer to a decent level and submitted 3 templates. But since the marketplace changes, there have been basically zero sales, and there seem to be very few openings specifically for Framer developers.

Recently, I came across a few openings for dedicated Webflow developers, so I’m considering Webflow as well. But I’m confused about whether it’s actually worth investing the time in Webflow right now.

We've lost a few projects in the last couple of months to AI builds. They all seem to have the same reasoning, cheaper and faster, which usually isn't true.

For small sites (few pages, no CMS, or agents to update it) yeah sure, it can be fast and cheap. But for larger and more complex websites it will probably take longer than in Webflow and cost a lot more. So you wonder why anyone would go with AI builds at all, and the reason is actually pretty simple.

Remember 10-15+ years back, when we all custom coded most websites and platforms were super limited? That's what AI builds are, just boosted. With AI you can fully own your website and have no restrictions at all. Agents can help you update and manage it, all information is accessible to AI tools and easily extractable. But it takes time to set all that up and make it work flawlessly.

So we get the appeal, it makes total sense. What we don't get is why you'd actually need it.

We're a Webflow agency that built over 200 websites in Webflow and never had a client site go down because of the platform. Not once.

And the extraction thing people think they're buying with an AI build, you already have it. You can set a Webflow site up to be highly crawlable by AI and SEO bots and genuinely citable. We've spent the last 12+ months experimenting with every possible thing you can imagine on our own site around visibility, crawlability, citations and mentions, and none of it needed custom code.

So an AI built website is NOT cheaper and NOT faster. It gives you more control, which is what you already had with custom coded sites, just "easier" now. Still expensive, still slow.

Don't get us wrong, we're all in for innovation and this will only get better over time. We just don't think this is the moment. Webflow gives you what a business actually needs from a website right now, that's what it's done for us and our clients.

Anyone noticed raised demand for AI built websites, what's your experience with that?

A client sends you a link to something gorgeous. One of those award-winning sites, the kind with scroll effects that make you sit up. "Make ours like this. Same feel, our brand."

Every freelancer here has taken that job. It bills 3-4k. It takes weeks. And barely any of those weeks are design, because the design was settled by whoever built the reference. You're just rebuilding what already exists, by eye, one easing curve at a time.

So you do the 2026 thing. Screenshot the reference, write a careful brief, hand it to an AI.

It comes back static. It always comes back static.

We spent months on that before we worked out why. A screenshot doesn't contain the animation.

Flatten a page into an image and layout survives. Colour, type, spacing, all fine. Timing doesn't make it across. The easing curve isn't in the pixels. Neither is the stagger, the scroll range an effect is bound to, or the fact that two elements drift at different speeds against the same scroll. It was never in the picture, so no prompt pulls it back out.

Then there's the part underneath that. ThePrimeagen has a bit that made it click for us: the model returns the middle of the distribution. You can push it around inside the average, but you're still inside it. Same reason you type "no purple" and get purple, then the glowing orb, then three feature cards. Prompting moves you around in there. It doesn't get you out.

So the model is guessing at something that was never in front of it, and the guess lands in the middle. Fade in, 300ms, ease out. Every time.

We stopped guessing and started measuring.

Three runs, each harder than the last.

https://reddit.com/link/1vnqxcp/video/6z847wrdb8jh1/player

First, a scroll rig - a private jet charter site where the jet climbs behind the headline and a photo wipes to a blueprint. Pure timeline. Stagger, easing, scroll ranges, nothing else to hide behind.

Then a layout that moves: an image cloud that scatters into a grid. Harder, because both states are real layouts and the whole thing lives in the transition between them.

Then the one we're proud of. We pointed it at a three.js scene, a slowly turning diorama, and got back a live WebGL scene sitting in the footer of our test site. Spinnable. Not a video, not a picture of one.

And it isn't their diorama. Theirs is a Tokyo street. Ours is a desk - monitor, chair, shelves - belonging to the fictional developer whose portfolio we were building. Same movement, different world.

That's the part we actually care about. The animation is the expensive half. The brand is the cheap half. Nobody pointing at a site wants that company's content. They want how it feels. So keep the animation and bring your own brand. A jet becomes a burger. Tokyo becomes a desk. The timing never moves.

We didn't want to take our own word for it, so we ran a control. Five other models (including Fable), same page - ycombinator.com - a 1,552-character brief with an explicit ANIMATIONS section, seven full-page screenshots each. Layout came back fine. Type, spacing, the exact orange. Not one of the five reproduced the scroll animation. The best of them returned the right structure filled with grey placeholder boxes, sitting perfectly still.

Not a prompting problem. Not a model problem. An input problem.

Ask us anything. And if you want to throw a page at us, drop a URL in the waitlist of platho.io, we'll run it and post what comes back, failures included.

- two of us, building this in Europe

For those of you managing Webflow sites after launch, how do you handle recurring maintenance?

I’ve noticed there’s a weird perception issue with maintenance retainers.
When something breaks, the client immediately sees the value. But during the months where everything works perfectly, it can almost look like nothing is being done.

Do you send clients some kind of monthly recap of what was checked/done? Or do most of your clients just pay for the peace of mind and don’t really question it?

Curious how agencies/freelancers here handle this.

Genuine question because I keep going back and forth on this. When I set up our site I just defaulted to GA4 out of habit, mostly because that's what everyone does and I didn't want to think about it. But Webflow has its own analytics dashboard now and I've been poking at it lately trying to figure out if it's worth caring about.

The problem is I can't tell if it's genuinely useful for a lean B2B setup or if it's just a nicelooking page count that gives you a false sense of information. For a bootstrapped SaaS marketing site the data I actually need is pretty narrow: which pages are people hitting before they convert, where are they bouncing, is a specific landing page doing anything. GA4 technically covers all of that but it also requires a PhD to set up event tracking properly and I have a running joke with myself about how many times I've misconfigured it.

Webflow analytics feels cleaner but I worry it's too shallow for anything beyond curiosity. Curious whether anyone here runs it as their primary source or if you treat it as a sanity check alongside something else. And if you've actually replaced GA4 with a third option like Fathom or Plausible, I'd be curious what pushed you to make that call.

Like a lot of people here, we have probably found out the hard way that Webflow has no way to serve a bare .txt file at the domain root. That's a dealbreaker for IndexNow, since it verifies ownership by hosting a plain key file at your host. There's an open Wishlist request for this that's been sitting since 2022 with no movement.

Without IndexNow, we were waiting on Bing's own crawl schedule after every publish, which for us meant new or updated pages sometimes took days or weeks to show up in Bing's index. Annoying on its own, but it also matters more than it used to because Copilot is grounded in Bing's index; a page Bing hasn't indexed yet is a page Copilot can't cite, regardless of how it'd rank.

The workaround: skip IndexNow entirely and use the Bing Webmaster Tools API directly. It authenticates with a single API key rather than a hosted file, so there's nothing to serve from the site; the credential lives in CI. We built a small script that:

• pulls our sitemap
• diffs it against the last known state (saved as a JSON file, committed back to the repo each run)
• checks remaining quota before sending anything (the batch endpoint caps at 500 URLs per call)
• submits whatever's new or changed
• runs on a 15-minute cron via GitHub Action

First run just baselines the current sitemap and submits nothing, so you don't torch your quota re-submitting everything you already had indexed. After that, it's only ever sending new or updated URLs.

One catch worth knowing if you try this yourselves: it only catches genuinely new URLs reliably. Whether it catches edited pages depends on whether your sitemap lastmod actually updates when you edit a CMS item's content (on Webflow that's not well documented and seems to vary), so worth testing on your own site before you rely on it (save the sitemap, edit a CMS item without touching the slug, republish, and diff the two files).

Also worth flagging for anyone on Webflow who is sitting behind Cloudflare: you don't need any of this. Cloudflare has a Crawler Hints feature that does the IndexNow relay for you with zero code, since it can serve the key file. We're on GoDaddy for DNS, so that wasn't an option for us, hence the API route.

Wrote up the full build (script structure, GitHub Actions config, the IndexNow vs. API tradeoffs) on our blog if anyone is interested in learning more about this.