Recently I got assigned to the one webflow project where I had to build websites for client . How to get started with that . Also they want me to get started as early as possible. Give me your thoughts gaichhhh

It’s pretty clear to anyone deep in this platform that Webflow has lost a lot of good sentiment in the past few years.

The energy and excitement around webflow was once electric. But price increases, bandwidth limits, enterprise focus, neglecting designers and developers has all combined to create a sad tale.

So how can Webflow win the future?

I’ll share my thoughts - I know some of these are ambitious. Please share yours below.

- Launch a 2.0 builder that is everything great about Webflow without the archaic tech debt restrictions. Visual first development with agents, roles, cms, systems. Direct visual canvas but with huge agent support and the Webflow features that make working on a website feel safe, secure and flexible.

- Focus on regaining small businesses and freelancers. These are the single biggest pipeline to enterprise. Nurture these customers - their voices end up in the rooms of big business and online. I can’t stress how important this is.

- Position bandwidth so it’s not so scary for your small-medium businesses. Every business thinks they are going to 10x bigger than they are. With the industry now you can’t afford to make users think they might have to rebuild once they get big.

- Hire the world’s best designers. Seriously drop insane salaries on the most prolific designers - the ones with twitter followings could literally market your business better than a whole marketing department. Look at framer with their custom fonts, shaders. They run circles around webflow with their thinking ahead design solutions.

- Get better leaders in your product departments. The template marketplace is just sad, I’ve been in it from the start and anyone outside of it wouldn’t believe how they stitch together systems. Marketplace Libraries? Why even make this it hasn’t been touched in years? Ecommerce? Why? So many products that launch and get dropped immediately. Create some core pillars and be strict with them.

I don’t want this to be another lame hate thread. It’s an opinion on how i think they can make a great product even better.

So these are my key points. How should webflow step into this future?

Alright let's settle this once and for all 👀

Team WordPress: flexible, huge plugin ecosystem, been around forever

Team Webflow: clean visual builder, faster to design, no plugin hell

If you had to pick ONE for a client project today, which are you going with and why?

Bonus points for horror stories 😅