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Founder https://xitter.twitterapi.xyz/t.co/EfaqhBe9d9 7yrs building component libraries & templates Prev Design Engineer @ Autodesk, Stackbit, Relume

Brisbane, Australia
Joined August 2019
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Designers, it's finally here 👀 Reelfolio now has a timeline. Now you can: • Join multiple templates into one video • Trim and split clips • Pick transitions between them • Keyframe any setting • Add your text, logo and music No After Effects. Try it → reelfolio.io
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Hey @kehaoranai, Please remove my website, lexingtonthemes.com/, from your platform immediately. You do not have permission to use or distribute my designs as part of your paid MCP inspiration service for AI agents. You have 24 hours to remove my work. Otherwise, I will proceed with a DMCA takedown request.
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Thanks to people like this, I spend the whole fucking day feeling miserable and anxious, wondering if my work is even worth doing anymore. All because some fucking clown can come along and pull this kind of dick move just to profit from someone else's work. This is a message to all of you building inspiration sites using other people's work and charging people to access it via MCP or whatever the fuck you want to call it: Go fuck yourselves, you fucking grifters.
Hey @kehaoranai, Please remove my website, lexingtonthemes.com/, from your platform immediately. You do not have permission to use or distribute my designs as part of your paid MCP inspiration service for AI agents. You have 24 hours to remove my work. Otherwise, I will proceed with a DMCA takedown request.
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Hot take: within 2 years, @relume_ai acquires Canva. 😎
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Relume keeps shipping in a market that’s moving under everyone’s feet. The Canva layoffs are a reminder of how hard it is for design platforms right now: keep serving the users you have, or rebuild for AI. Relume’s recent releases tell me they’re working hard on where their product fits after the Webflow and Figma era. They haven’t forgotten who their core users are, either. These are designers who still care about craft and want work that’s a level above generic AI slop.
Today we’re launching Relume Studio! Most AI image tools give you one great picture. Then the face changes, the office moves and everything starts to look like generic AI. You can’t run a brand on images that don’t match. Studio fixes that by locking things in: → Styles lock the look → Characters lock the people → Scenes lock the place The result is a shot that would normally need a photographer, a location and half a day. Every image you make lands straight in your Relume project, ready to drop into your site! Link in comments 👇
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4 shadcn/ui block libraries worth bookmarking 🔖 1. shadcnblocks.com: The ultimate block set for Shadcn UI & Tailwind 2. shadcnstudio.com: Build Futuristic UIs at Warp Speed with Awesome Shadcn UI Blocks 3. tailark.com: Shadcn Registry for building marketing websites 4. ui.aceternity.com: The React component library for beautiful landing pages What did I miss?
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9 design resources worth bookmarking 🔖 1. reelfolio.io: drop in your screenshots or clips, pick one of 200+ templates, and get an animated showreel of your work. No After Effects needed. 2. godly.website: hand-picked sites with serious motion 3. lottiefiles.com: free lightweight animations for sites and apps 4. unicorn.studio: WebGL effects for your site without code 5. spline.design: 3D scenes in the browser, no code 6. rive.app: interactive animations that run inside your app 7. motionin.design: animated web sections to learn from 8. jitter.video: animate your designs and export them as video 9. transitions.dev: UI transitions you can add to your app Save this 🔖 you'll want it before your next portfolio update.
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When your using Claude Code do you use "Projects" (and link a local folder) or do you just create a new chat session with a folder attached? I figure using Projects will give some kind of benefit over the course of working on the same codebase? But it also seems like in Projects view I cant see the git,file and terminal buttons?
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Planning a new @shadcn newsletter. We already have 40K plus subscribers. Registered shadcnnews.com - Keep an eye out.
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Template creators who get it, pivoting trying new things and acknowledging they need to be AI enabled. But at the same time not giving in to just producing slop. All of John’s latest work is top notch and thoughtful.
things aren't going well sales keep falling for everyone you know, and the themes market seems to be in bad shape it's May 2025 and even mediocre AI models at the time seem to be used for UI generation instead of handcrafted designs they are good enough then this happens.. Google starts making changes to search, introducing AI features. I lose almost 60% of my organic traffic overnight they say that SEO is officially dead, and my sales start disappearing as well have been selling on Envato for more than 16 years, and sales start disappearing there as well i have many ongoing freelance projects at the moment, but i still remain vigilant about the situation boilerplate trend says goodbye, too November 2025 and Anthropic releases Opus 4.5 people go nuts, and they are right, the model is really good in the next 3 months that follow, i still remember seeing tons of posts from people looking for a job on X everyone teaching code and selling courses sees their revenue vanish developers question their life and career, designers try to prove there is value in their work, people say that the internet and the world are over, and others say that wait, so much work is coming our way because AI will enable it things are looking bad no one knows what's going on what do i do with my online business? 1. first of all, say goodbye to my Bootstrap templates once and for all 2. continue freelance work 3. start taking my local agency more seriously since with AI i can now do more and support more people and projects at affordable prices 4. secondly, take Tailkit to the next level, integrating the whole library with agents through the MCP server and redesigning most of the available UI components 5. try to solve 2 major problems by also creating new design products for the AI era: a) animated visuals that enhance any landing and marketing pages and b) a design system for Astro and agents that helps me put together a solid foundation when building any static website at the same time, i started building all the things I've always wanted with AI for my business, and i'm almost 95% there i don't have all the answers, but things are looking better than before while we transition into the unknown the only thing i know, and if you ask me, i would tell you, is that you have to keep moving and trying new things we might not be able to know what the future looks like, but we can definitely build it ..and remember that if something you build takes time to even with ai but is helpful to you, then it holds value to other people as well
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Rob Austin retweeted
I've always wanted to build a point & click game. Finally made it happen. Meet "Past": an adventure with a full story, cinematics, and dialogue. 52 rooms to explore, 13 characters to meet. Play it on desktop or in your browser. Then I turned the whole workflow into AI agent skills, so you can build this kind of game with your own story and art 👇 > new-adventure: a working Godot game to start from, with inventory, saves, dialogs and a sample game that plays start to finish > art-requests: every image comes from a prompt file you can trace > look-gate: lock in your art style before you paint 50 rooms > story-track: story, cast and puzzles planned before any art > paint-room: one data file becomes a playable room > painted-hero: your hero painted frame by frame over 3D pose guides > skinned-npc: side characters animated from a single painting > memory-reveals: flashbacks, cutscenes and big reveals > voice-cast: every line voiced with ElevenLabs > ship-check: test it and ship it to desktop and the web All 10 skills: github.com/TheOrcDev/skills/… You can play the game here: past-nu.vercel.app/ If you'd like to see more content like this, make sure to follow. I'll definitely create more 🔥
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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 →reelfolio.io
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State of Framer. Niche Toilet rental sites.
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 👇 framer.com/marketplace/templ… #Framer #NoCode #WebDesign
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Astro official theme marketplace is filling up with AI spam. Here we go baby!
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You honestly cant save Framer template creators from themselves... Their time in the safety of the v1 marketplace has completely warped their realities.
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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.
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Reelfolio is getting super slick! the amount of new reel templates and the new UI are really great.
are motion designers done?? 💀 check it out → reelfolio.io
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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.
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Shadcn Block - Checkout 10 shadcnblocks.com/block/check…
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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: shadcnblocks.com/template/mu…
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