Design and diagrams decision
Landingfolio
A single developer can build a pared-down inspiration gallery with search, downloads and payments, but cannot cheaply reproduce Landingfolio's curated scale, bundled commercial templates/licensing, or their MCP AI integration.
Visit website↗Built by Danny Postma, who ships 3 products in this index
Not priced
No pricing page we fetched carried a figure, so there is nothing to compare against. The build side is still real.
$100one-off56 h to build
$80/mo3 h/mo upkeep
No published price to break even against.
No open-source build does this yet
Nothing published replaces this one, so a replacement starts from an empty file. Here is what it would have to cover.
What a replacement has to do
- Browse curated landing pages, search & filter designs, view component/template details, download component code/assets.
What it still won’t have
- The curated scale and breadth of Landingfolio's paid library (hundreds of components and premium templates)
- Commercial licensing bundled with the one-time Forever access product
- Their MCP server and built-in MCP AI agent integration ('1,000 MCP requests a day for your AI agents')
- Ad-free browsing and product-brand trust/reach
What remains hard
- Product polish and ongoing maintenance
First-year cost
No published price
Landingfolio does not publish a price we could read, so there is nothing to compare against. What building costs is below.
Money you would actually spend
Time you would spend
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What you would spend
What we assumed
The verdict above measures whether you could build it. This one is only about money.
Runnable build prompt
Build a minimal Landingfolio-style inspiration site using Next.js (app router), TypeScript, Tailwind CSS, Postgres (hosted via Supabase), Meilisearch for search, and Vercel for hosting. In scope: ingestion script to import/scrape entries (metadata + screenshot), API endpoints to list/search/filter gallery items, thumbnail generation and storage in Supabase Storage, a responsive Next.js frontend with gallery pages and detail pages, Stripe checkout for a single paid access tier, and basic user accounts to track purchases. Out of scope: a marketplace for third-party premium templates, training or hosting custom AI models, and a large pre-curated dataset. Require: error handling for failed ingests and payments, server-side and unit tests for ingestion, API, and payment flows, and CI setup to run tests and deploy.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Partly verdict base52
- 3 cited sources+3
- Evidence score55
The base comes from the verdict. Everything under it is a check that either happened or did not, and each one is a fact frozen in this record rather than a judgement made at render time - so the same evidence always produces the same number.
How scoring works →Cited sources · 3
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productLandingfolio — homepage
- official pricingLandingfolio — pricing
- official productLandingfolio — product landing page examples
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.