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Templates are more important in the AI era
Whether it’s Cursor, Windsurf or Copilot, AI coding is becoming more and more seamless. However, anyone who has used these tools knows that getting artificial intelligence to write a decent application from scratch can be quite challenging. AI is very good at imitating existing templates rather than starting from scratch. You provide a template, ask it to tweak it, and it quickly produces an app you’re happy with.
I do believe the above, which is why my most recent website was developed using templates plus artificial intelligence. I have used Table of contents (Paid Navigator Templates) + Copilot develops navigation websites with 500+ free web templates: Template 0.
Some opposing views:
How could I possibly think otherwise? Templates are fixed, AI is dynamic. With the advent of artificial intelligence, traffic to template sites should decline because people no longer need to find templates to start with; instead, they can simply let artificial intelligence produce something that better suits their needs.
In my opinion, artificial intelligence still struggles to produce comprehensive, systematic websites; however, customizing templates requires a certain level of ease for those who don’t develop or are unfamiliar with the technology stack. Combining AI coding with the use of templates provides the perfect complement. Launching a website like the one mentioned above is fast, I have experienced this first hand. AI completion and editing are relatively easy to use.
This can also be reflected in the tips we write for AI assistants. Examples are one of the important techniques often used to improve the accuracy of AI (LLM) chat responses.
Let me briefly introduce the website I developed to help you quickly find the template you want:
- Contains a preview image of the homepage, with most details including a long screenshot or multiple screenshots
- Classified by purpose, such as product landing pages, blogs, resumes, personal homepages, admin dashboards, services, business websites, etc.
- Use technology stack tags to quickly find familiar technology stacks
- I personally selected some templates I like
Additionally, you can submit free templates to get permanent backlinks to enhance your SEO.
Pricing strategy
Pricing strategy is something that many indie developers often think about. Below is a brief discussion of my strategies and ideas.
The website’s data collection also requires a lot of time and effort, and long-term maintenance requires financial support. Therefore, I considered monetizing it through sponsorship. I believe that my pricing strategy is quite reasonable and can provide a smooth transition to the initial stage of limited traffic. Indie developers can consider:
First of all, let me state that this site does not make money from the templates themselves, so you can happily search for the templates you want without any commercial content. The site’s profits come entirely from sponsorships, which means top sponsorships on the homepage and category pages to cover server hosting, domain, CMS, and labor costs.
To ensure equal exposure for all brands and not impact the normal user experience, template0 has carefully limited the maximum placements to 8.
- They will be sorted by monthly sponsorship amount, up to $99.
- If the sponsorship amount is the same, we will sort by the earliest sponsorship time.
as template0.com Still in the early stages, now you can get traffic from the most prominent niche developers for just $1.
try not to cross boundaries
This weekly diary covers two weeks because I gave myself an excuse to postpone last week. So, try not to cross the line; once it happens, it happens many times.
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2024 Front-End Status Survey
2024 Front End Survey (6,000 participants)
For example, these questions:
- What frameworks have you used in the past year?
- What build tools have you used in the past year?
- What artificial intelligence tools have you used in the past year?
- What is the future of artificial intelligence in front-end development?
Notable repository for injecting malicious scripts
Vant, @rspack/core, and @rspack/cli were injected with malicious scripts by hackers. Please upgrade to vant 4.9.15, @rspack/core 1.1.8 and @rspack/cli 1.1.8.
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Sora and Google Veo2
Sora It’s finally been released, although it doesn’t look quite as impressive as what was initially seen in previews. Additionally, based on some of the generated videos, Sora seems to have less understanding of the physical world than Vio 2.
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Creative Harbor
Here you can browse other people’s project ideas or share your own.
Free watermark-free OG tool
Similar to imgsrc.io, but this one is free, and the free version does not add a watermark.
The next SaaS starter
Next SaaS Starter appears on GitHub with 7K stars and was last updated last week.
The technology stack includes Next.js, Postgres, Drizzle, Stripe and shadcn/ui.
Open source invoice generator
Downwind gradient generator
Create stunning visual effects with ease. Easily customize gradients, copy the code and paste it into your project. Perfect for vibrant, eye-catching designs.
Offering a dazzling collection of over 20,000 carefully curated gradients.
real humanoid avatar
- 100% free, commercial use allowed
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Export and build applications using your profile
Surfer Protocol is an open source framework for exporting and building applications based on your profile.
Your profile is scattered across multiple platforms and applications. Big tech companies have no incentive to give you easy access to your data. Whether you want to create an artificially intelligent clone that sends text messages just like you, reclaim your data from big tech companies, or leave a digital legacy, Surfer Protocol is one way to make it happen.
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>> Interesting findings
Is it worth dying at the age of 23 with a debt of 100,000?
An interesting answer is this:
Think of it this way: You are a corpse. Spending 100,000 yuan can allow you to start a vibrant life at the age of 23. Will you buy it?
Indeed, many times, things become clearer by thinking from another perspective.
Fair wind!
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