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Framer
Company blog · framer.com/blogdesignweb
Framer is the company blog at framer.com, writing about design and web. Since 2017, 67 different Hacker News readers have linked it 122 times, most often “Framer Web”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Rarely recommended · 0 of 40 sampled comments recommend it?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Framer's site and blog when discussing a visual, code-based design and prototyping tool for building websites, often in tool comparisons and job posts. The comments do not judge the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 40 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
The free website builder with a design agent that takes you from idea to launch. Changes stay editable, with hosting, CMS, analytics, SEO, and AEO built in.
Most-linked posts?
- Framer Web14 people · 15 mentions · first linked 2019-10-31
- New layout animation tools in Framer Motion 26 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2019-07-10
- Framer – Interactive Design Tool6 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2017-03-15
- Framer comes up with new design tool3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2017-05-31
- /learn/how-to-work-with-real-dynamic-data/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2023-03-16
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-11-02
- Framer Sites2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-01-19
- Framers Sites – design and publish websites faster than ever before2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-05-25
- LayoutCamera2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-12-14
What Hacker News says?
New (or kinda new?) Framer X tries to do that for React: https://www.framer.com/development/
Comment linking /development/
on “SwiftUI”Submitted Framer Motion 3D as a story · 148 points
HN discussionYea I feel ya, I’m definitely not a good designer based on how long this stuff takes me. I think we are all not that bad but once you spend 6 hours on a component you really feel your dev skills could be much better used. Anyway here are some of the things I used on the landing page: CSS - https://tailwindcss.com/ Components - https://tailwindui.com/ Logo - https://pixlr.com/editor/ Icons - https://heroicons.com/ -…
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on “Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 – Show and tell”Submitted Framer – Interactive Design Tool as a story · 71 points
HN discussionFramer http://framer.com Engineer | Amsterdam, full time, onsite. Framer is building a new kind of design tool to go from ideation to production. We are looking for multiple talented engineers to join our team. Our stack is Electron / TypeScript with specialized problems in graphics, editors, direct manipulation, compilers, animation and more. Email me directly at koen at framer dot com for more info.
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2017)”Submitted Framer Web as a story · 25 points
HN discussionhttp://framer.com | Amsterdam, NL | Engineers React / TypeScript FTE onsite We're building a new kind of design tool that is currently used by the design departments at Google, Facebook, Uber, etc. Our goal is to help most product designers in the world express interactive ideas better, with the help of direct manipulation and code. We’re looking for experienced engineers to work on things like our direct manipulati…
Comment linking /careers
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2018)”Submitted New layout animation tools in Framer Motion 2 as a story · 16 points
HN discussionFramer | Senior Backend Engineer | Amsterdam | Onsite/Remote (NL,UK,IE,DE)| Full-time About us: At Framer we build a prototyping tool that allows our users to bring their ideas to life and make their designs interactive, with and without touching code. Role: Lead projects and implement features from start to finish! You’ll work on many aspects of the tool, incl. Framer Web, Framer Packages, billing systems, email in…
Comment linking /careers/senior-backend-engineer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)”Submitted Framer Motion, the successor to Pose by Popmotion, is now open source as a story · 14 points
HN discussionhttps://framer.com/ https://www.figma.com/ The first impressive landing page I saw with video/gif screencast was SublimeText: https://www.sublimetext.com/
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on “Ask HN: Examples of great landing pages?”Submitted Framer: A new screen design tool, using design and code as a story · 13 points
HN discussionFramer ( https://framer.com ) | Remote (EU) | Senior+ Product Engineers The best professional web builder for your entire dotcom. Used by Perplexity, Twingate, ByteDance, Superhuman and many more. TypeScript / React, Go / AWS. koen at framer dot com
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2024)”Submitted Framers Sites – design and publish websites faster than ever before as a story · 11 points
HN discussionFramer | Cloud Engineer | Amsterdam | Onsite/Remote (NL,UK,IE,DE,PT,ES)| Full-time We're looking for an experienced Cloud Engineer to build and maintain key features for our site, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance. With a min. of 7+ years of infrastructure engineering experience at a product company, you’ll define and implement backend architecture and infrastructure strategies, leveraging your expe…
Comment linking /careers/cloud-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2025)”Submitted Framer Playground as a story · 10 points
HN discussionAny thoughts on Framer? They seem to do the design aspect as well as the site-building aspect. https://www.framer.com https://www.framer.com/sites
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on “Show HN: A Visual IDE for React”Submitted Framer: Integrated Design Environment as a story · 10 points
HN discussionFramer | Backend Engineer, Data | Amsterdam | Onsite/Remote (NL,UK,IE,DE)| Full-time About us: At Framer we build a prototyping tool that allows our users to bring their ideas to life and make their designs interactive, with and without touching code. Backend Engineer, Data: Determine the direction of our data architecture and tools. Build and operate an event delivery system, as well as a data warehouse that enable…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)”Submitted Framer for Developers as a story · 8 points
HN discussionFramer | Senior Backend Engineer | Amsterdam | Onsite/Remote (NL,UK,IE,DE)| Full-time About us: At Framer we build a prototyping tool that allows our users to bring their ideas to life and make their designs interactive, with and without touching code. Role: Lead projects and implement features from start to finish! You’ll work on many aspects of the tool, incl. Framer Web, Framer Packages, billing systems, email in…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)”Submitted Framer – Handoff as a story · 7 points
HN discussionFramer | Backend Engineer (Data), Senior Backend Engineer, (Senior) Product Engineer, JavaScript Performance Engineer | Amsterdam | Onsite/Remote (NL,UK,IE,DE)| Full-time About us: At Framer we build a prototyping tool that allows our users to bring their ideas to life and make their designs interactive, with and without touching code. Backend Engineer (Data): Determine the direction of our data architecture and too…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (April 2021)”Submitted Making Framer Fast: Measuring Web App Performance as a story · 6 points
HN discussionFramer | Backend Engineer (Data), Senior Backend Engineer, (Senior) Product Engineer | Amsterdam | Onsite/Remote (NL,UK,IE,DE)| Full-time About us: At Framer we build a prototyping tool that allows our users to bring their ideas to life and make their designs interactive, with and without touching code. Backend Engineer (Data): Determine the direction of our data architecture and tools. Build and operate an event de…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (January 2021)”Submitted Framer – Design everything with code as a story · 5 points
HN discussionFramer | Multiple positions | Remote (Netherlands, Germany, Spain, United Kingdom) or Hybrid (Amsterdam, Barcelona) | https://www.framer.com | Full-time | Visa Sponsorship Framer is the design tool for websites Senior+ Product Engineer - https://www.framer.com/careers/senior-product-engineer Staff+ Back-end Engineer - https://www.framer.com/careers/principal-backend-engineer Senior+ Site Reliability Engineer - https…
Comment linking /careers/senior-site-reliability-engineer
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2025)”Submitted Framer: Design Beautiful Websites in Minutes as a story · 4 points
HN discussionFramer |(AWS) Cloud Engineer | Amsterdam | Onsite/Remote (NL,UK,IE,DE)| Full-time About us: At Framer we build a prototyping tool that allows our users to bring their ideas to life and make their designs interactive, with and without touching code. Role: Work closely with our engineering and product teams to build out our infrastructure—supporting our applications in a secure, scalable, and reliable way. Tech stack:…
Comment linking /careers/cloud-engineer/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2021)”Submitted Framer comes up with new design tool as a story · 4 points
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