Frederico Leonardo

Curious about AI, code, design, and where they collide. Building for the web since forever. Always nice to bots, just in case 🤖

[Frederico Leonardo @zehfred]

@MariaAfsharian @film_girl I love mine too. Best computer I ever owned!

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@FinlaysonConnor I guess ostracizing developers and small businesses in favor of big marketing teams was a terrible decision after all. I cannot fathom how a company worth 4B is in this situation.

[Frederico Leonardo @zehfred]

Astro is quite amazing. Super fast, cheap to host. I’ve been trying it out, styling with Tailwind CSS, and letting AI do most of the heavy lifting. The markdown/static files are great if you’re using it for your personal site but you’ll still need a CMS for clients to edit their content. And it’s not possible to edit on page, like in Webflow. At least, not yet. I’ve also been paying attention to Ycode, which is now open source and those guys are shipping updates every day.

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@elenascross @mrblackstudio Ahahah 😂

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@ycodedotcom At this speed you might reach 2.0 in a couple of months 🤯

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@JustinBleuel @ChatGPTapp It seems like it’s learning from the way I type. Could that be happening? I think it already does a great job at writing and it really understands the nuances of my language. Some of the words/expressions it uses are really funny but they still make sense. I think you nailed it.

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@OpenAIDevs Is it aware of breakpoints?

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@Eh_Tk @BrettFromDJ @_olasenii What do you mean?

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@Eh_Tk @BrettFromDJ @_olasenii Craft CMS or Strapi as backend, Astro for the frontend. And it’s dead easy to get AI to reproduce the database and template files. Or just go crazy and stick with Astro static files, if you’re managing the site yourself.

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@SeanFinlay_ There’s a huge difference between being empowered by AI and being totally dependent on it.

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@BrettFromDJ I’ve been doing that for months. Pricing issues aside, Webflow is still the best visual editor. If you create components with props you don’t even need to export the entire website. There’s a level of refinement that AI simply can’t reach yet.

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@hunterthompson Used Claude to build an MVP on Webflow Cloud, with Astro.

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@ethansuero_ @leinwand Maybe! 😅

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We’ve had price increases a few times but nothing like this. They really are milking it. First they build their brand on the shoulders of designers and developers and then they make it hard for us to sell this to our customers. It doesn’t make any sense. Only a handful of agencies work with enterprise clients. Is it really worth it?

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@darylginn Purple

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@skirano Is it becoming a desktop app?

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Honestly, I think Webflow is slowly pricing out a lot of small businesses.

I still love the platform, but without CMS in the Basic plan, it’s becoming harder to justify for smaller websites that still need editable content.

It makes sense for bigger teams and more complex projects, but the SMB use case feels weaker with every pricing update.

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@webflow So… SMBs are basically priced out.

This feels like the proof we needed. Webflow could at least have added CMS to the Basic plan.

I love Webflow, but every price increase makes it harder to sell to small businesses.

We are not living in an age of endless affordability.

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@victoria_framer Claude + Codex + Cursor. Plus an annual OpenArt subscription. And Gemini from Google Workspace account. So ~ 80 usd/month.

Considering dropping Claude but I’ll give it a couple more months. Codex is quite amazing.