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So this will turn out to be the most expensive web template business. Not really seeing how they expect to make money.

I guess post IPO, after the insiders cash in out of lock period its irrelevant.



Thank you for saying this.

I hear it all the time in the recent two years: web development is apparently dead now, because anyone can just slap together a web site or build a dashboard in minutes etc. because of LLMs.

But that has been true for decades: Templates, component libraries and so on.

But I guess it’s now easier to adjust them if you‘re not familiar with their configuration or something.


It's a legitimate boon for throwing together little internal apps, mind.

I can slap something together with Claude over a few evenings to fill a gap on tooling, or I can wrestle with Jira and CI and all that to tie things together with their own integrations.

No thanks, I'll just take the API keys and build on top, to my exact specifications, and the interface will be passable even if it needs a lot of polish. Tailwind has worked wonders for that.


Previously you'd buy an admin template from ThemeForest for $10, slap your logo on it and and be done.




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