Rob Austin

Founder building component libraries & templates
Prev Design Engineer @ Autodesk, Stackbit, Relume

[Yassine Zaanouni @YassineZaanouni]

Designers who use Claude Code, save this one 👀

One prompt turns your sites into finished showreels, then you tweak them by just asking.

245 templates, no After Effects, no timeline headaches.

Check it out →https://t.co/Hwy0LnPQsT

[Rob Austin @ausrobdev]

Glad you said something, but knowing you Mike it probably wasnt very diplomatic 😂

Their curation strategy is very inclusive, as in they don't "judge" design, and there is a market fairness to that which i respect. But yeah it also means its just gonna fill up with garbage...

What would be your proposal to help fix the problem?

[Rob Austin @ausrobdev]

Astro official theme marketplace is filling up with AI spam. Here we go baby!

[Rob Austin @ausrobdev]

@charlieissland Insights

[Rob Austin @ausrobdev]

State of Framer. Niche Toilet rental sites.

[Md. Omor Rahman Shipon @graphicomor]

Meet LavoRent, a free @framer template for portable toilet rental & sanitation businesses.

✅ Modern, responsive design
✅ Home, Contact, 404, Privacy & Terms pages
✅ Built to turn visitors into customers

Remix it for free 👇
https://t.co/UKRwloc4h5

#Framer #NoCode #WebDesign

[Rob Austin @ausrobdev]

You honestly cant save Framer template creators from themselves... Their time in the safety of the v1 marketplace has completely warped their realities.

[Rob Austin @ausrobdev]

@design_megha @ui8 let us know how much you make in royalties, if you can afford to purchase a coffee with the proceeds

[Rob Austin @ausrobdev]

@design_megha @ui8 Save this to your checklist 0.01% revenue on each download. Except to make about $2 in sales per template.

UI8 all access royalty model provides ZERO profit to template creators

[Rob Austin @ausrobdev]

The number of Framer creators who cant even creator a basic portfolio site with permalinks to each of their individual templates baffles me. Like do they not understand the basics of SEO and the interweb?

Its no wonder the Framer marketplace changes wiped out an entire generation. These template creators have no basic understanding of how to build their own template portfolios.

[Rob Austin @ausrobdev]

Reelfolio is getting super slick! the amount of new reel templates and the new UI are really great.

[Yassine Zaanouni @YassineZaanouni]

are motion designers done?? 💀

check it out → https://t.co/Hwy0LnPQsT

[Rob Austin @ausrobdev]

We love supporting creators in the shadcn ecosystem and we’ve sponsored HEAPS. But it’s gotten to the point where we’re being intentionally left out of organic lists and resources, and then getting requests for paid placements... Lame.

[Rob Austin @ausrobdev]

@KirkMDesign The year is 2021. You’re a front end dev. The designer designs everything by hand and then yells at you constantly because it’s not “pixel perfect” and they are completely oblivious of the real constraints of the web medium.

[Rob Austin @ausrobdev]

@orcdev @neondatabase Nice! Love Neon.

[Shadcnblocks.com @shadcnblocks]

Shadcn Block - Checkout 10
https://t.co/B06KIlp3p1

[Shadcnblocks.com @shadcnblocks]

Munch - Nextjs & Astro Template

Restaurant site with priced menu items, calorie counts, and a cart that persists in the browser. Next.js and Astro — a full sitemap, not a hero kit.

Purchase at: https://t.co/7MeYlvL8s2

[Rob Austin @ausrobdev]

@orcdev Bro did you join Vercel? 🤯

[Rob Austin @ausrobdev]

@BowTiedStack Wrong. The thing you want in your CTO is a hardcore backend dev who knows AWS, Infra, architecture.

They dont have to do this work. but that needs to be their background.

THey need to be technical and battle hardened.

Only then can they disperse and delegate AI strategy.

[Rob Austin @ausrobdev]

Actually thats fair @alaymanguy - Just because im not familar with these CMS doesnt mean they are AI slop. I think i visited the studiocms site and it kinda gave me indy git based cms vibes just from the design, then i lumped all your suggestions together because I incorrectly assumed you were unable to determine quality.

I retract that. I am not familar with all 3 of our recommended CMS and they might be great.

I come from an era where there were like 4 headless cms, contentful, sanity, etc and im not up to date with all the newcomers and that biased my views

I'd love to understand how the CMS you put forward are "AI Native" and what that means tho, how does that make them superior to say Sanity?

[Rob Austin @ausrobdev]

All the Framer dudes moving to Astro are about to get a reality check when they try and add their first headless CMS.

[Maks Rybicki @maksrybicki]

DesignMe left Framer for Astro and now edits its whole site through Claude. "We ask, review, and ship." That works when whoever asks can also review what changed. Most founder sites are edited by someone who can't read a diff, and for them the Framer canvas is the review step.

[Rob Austin @ausrobdev]

@alaymanguy @seb__design @basehub_ai Because @sanity_io is an exceptional, code first, decoupled, flexible headless CMS that has been in development since the early JAMstack era. Its an exceptional headless CMS.

To compare it to AI slop coded git CMS is a tragedy.

[Rob Austin @ausrobdev]

eyebrows are officially on the AI slop list.