Websites and hosting decision
Selected Site
For a single technical user, building and running a modest Framer-template directory is realistic and cheaper than paying for a hosted directory; nothing on the supplied page indicates an unreproduceable moat.
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Not priced
No pricing page we fetched carried a figure, so there is nothing to compare against. The build side is still real.
$50one-off22 h to build
$20/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
- Collect Framer template listings, allow submissions, show ranked/filterable listings, and link through to template marketplaces.
What it still won’t have
- existing site traffic, brand recognition and any incumbent SEO/authority
- community or marketplace reach associated with the live product
- any proprietary curation, editorial content, or partnerships the product has
What remains hard
- Product polish and ongoing maintenance
First-year cost
No published price
Selected Site 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 Framer-template directory using Node.js (Express), Postgres, and a React + Tailwind frontend. Core features in scope: (1) a crawler script to fetch and normalize Framer template metadata into PostgreSQL, (2) a public listing page with pagination, search, and tag filters, (3) a public submission form with CAPTCHA and an admin moderation panel to approve listings, (4) a simple ranking score computed by a scheduled job (cron) and exposed on the listing, (5) deployable Docker configuration and CI pipeline. Out of scope: payment processing, user accounts beyond an admin user, and an integrated marketplace checkout. Include error handling for network and DB failures, input validation, and unit/integration tests for API endpoints and the crawler.
How we checked
How the score was reached
- Build verdict base78
- Evidence score78
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 · 1
Every page the run actually retrieved.
- official productSelected — Framer Templates Ranking & Marketplace Directory
Integrity checks
What held up, and what did not.
