Webflow
Webflow is a design tool, CMS, and hosting platform. It gives designers and developers the power to design, build, and launch responsive websites visually, while writing clean, semantic code for you.
Designers and agencies building custom marketing sites without code. Strong animations, CMS, and SEO tools.
Best-in-class output for design-led teams. Not a weekend project for non-designers.
Non-designers wanting a quick website. Steeper than Squarespace — requires CSS mental model to get far.
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Community Reviews (52)
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The technical side is relatively straightforward, built on Webflow with a separate booking subdomain for facilities.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Building the main website and a separate booking subdomain for their patient transport service.
I still like it more than Webflow and most alternatives I've tried.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Alternative to WordPress for building websites
They're leaving for freelance Webflow work or getting out of CMS entirely.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Freelance web development work
A make.com automation takes the data from Airtable and publishes it to Webflow.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Automatically publishing the collected bookmark data into a public website.
Webflow is not the easiest tool to pick up, but once you get the hang of it, it’s very powerful. Plus there’s a great community out there.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Building the website for the project, challenging himself to learn it.
Part of the stack for projects that generated subscribers/ad revenue and were sold for mid-five figures and four figures respectively.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: No-code website builder for creating a newsletter website (INSANELY USEFUL WEBSITE) and a micro-SaaS project (ACTIONS) that were acquired.
I find their marketing as No code platform to be very misleading... only to waste considerable time deciphering the offering and realizing it doesn't do a fifth of what I really need.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Building websites and exploring its capabilities as a web app builder
Using lead page or no-code CRM (webflow my fave) I've swapped out various signup flows to test ideas friction followups repeatedly before asking dev to build actual signup flows.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: As a no-code CRM and for hosting public sales team calendars on the marketing site.
Recommended for quick mockups landing pages.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: For creating quick mockups and landing pages.
Supports native export to Webflow CMS.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Used as part of the initial no-code stack and later as a native export destination for the generated content.
If you are building a traditional marketing website for a client, you're doing your client a disservice if you don't use a CMS or hosted platform like Webflow.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Building traditional marketing websites for clients
I use Webflow in case the client needs something relatively unsophisticated.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Building websites for clients needing something relatively unsophisticated
Seems good enough if you can find the page.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: CSV import functionality
It's why it's not judged as a Frontosge (or rather 25 years later, Webflow) alternative.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Prototyping or web publishing (implied alternative)
Webflow offers features like capturing form data, a CMS, and content translation, which some find convenient but make it harder to self-host the HTML CSS that is generated by Webflow.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Designing and hosting a static site with features like form data capture, CMS, and content translation.
This is vendor lock-in 101 unfortunately... That’s how they get ya.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Building webpages and as a hosted CMS
The publish to your own server is a cruel joke. Anything remotely dynamic, even things like CMS pages that can be generated at build time, don't work.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Publishing a site to their own server and generating dynamic/CMS pages at build time
The site data is on their DB, and that cannot be migrated. That's vendor lock-in pure and simple. Webflow is not portable the way WordPress is.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Building and hosting a CMS-based website
The visual part of the web has been taken over by tools like Webflow and Framer or the other extreme with ThreeJs.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: The commenter states it has taken over the visual part of the web, implying it works for that purpose but has contributed to their own role shift away from graphical work.
the web dev is very keen to stay locked into Webflow.
Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Web development (implied general use)
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