# Framer

9 Hacker News commenters recommended Framer and 8 criticized it, November 2025 to November 2026. It was recommended in 6 of 13 months.

**Verdict:** People recommend Framer for building polished websites quickly, with fine layout control and scroll effects. Critics say it suits designers more than everyone and is hard to learn.

## Why people recommend it

- Easier to build than WordPress (2 comments): "Wix, framer and WordPress can do it easily" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49283978)) "Framer is much better than Wordpress" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45906962))
- Fine layout and container control (2 comments): "I think I'm just heavily Framer-pilled and it lets you pre-determine a rough width and height within a stack" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47703092)) "What this component does is that it allows you to target a specific Container" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47946460))

## What people warn about

- Hard to learn, proprietary quirks (3 comments): "Framer's marketing says it's for everyone. The product says it's for designers." ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48022232)) "they are incredibly frustrating and full of tedious little proprietary quirks" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48299262)) "you can prompt a corporate website faster than you can learn Framer" ([source](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46572140))

## Where to get it

- [Visit the official site](https://www.framer.com/)

## Cite as

Hacker Approved, "Framer", https://hackerapproved.com/p/framer/ (counts from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026).