Webflow
Shares rank 13 of 14 AI app builders by recommenders
Visual site builder with CMS and hosting that many find fits their sites well. Critics call it pricey for the value and say sites break.
Visual site builder with CMS and hosting that many find fits their sites well. Critics call it pricey for the value and say sites break.
17 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 5
- criticize it
- 12
- approval share
- 29%
Recommended in 4 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: not recommended
- April 2026: recommended
- May 2026: recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 5 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 0.4 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, not met.
- Recommended in 4 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Strong visual user interface
“both have a great user interface”
Comment from 8 Apr 2026 in “Show HN: React-Rewrite – Figma for localhost that directly edits your codebase” “no fumbling around in the Webflow WYSIWYG interface anymore”
Comment from 3 Feb 2026 in “Why software stocks are getting pummelled” Fits some use cases naturally
“it fits this use case very naturally”
Comment from 14 Dec 2025 in “Show HN: LinkedQL – Live Queries over Postgres, MySQL, MariaDB” “It's so good, but not for every literal text paragraph on your local bakery's website.”
Comment from 15 Feb 2026 in “Modern CSS Code Snippets: Stop writing CSS like it's 2015”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Not feeling worth the cost
“We currently pay almost $5k/year for hosting/licenses and its just not feeling worth it.”
Comment from 27 May 2026 in “Evolving Webflow for the Agentic Web” “its just not feeling worth it”
Comment from 28 May 2026 in “Evolving Webflow for the Agentic Web” Company restructuring and uncertain direction
“the amount of "restructuring" Webflow has gone through is wild”
Comment from 27 May 2026 in “Evolving Webflow for the Agentic Web” “Rebrand, slap on agentic AI and pray to google gods for a quick buyout.”
Comment from 27 May 2026 in “Evolving Webflow for the Agentic Web” “Companies like webflow are following blindly an empty promise with the hope at some point it becomes self-fulfilling”
Comment from 27 May 2026 in “Evolving Webflow for the Agentic Web” Sites breaking and outages
“the site is constantly breaking”
Comment from 23 Sep 2026 in “WordPress: Unauthenticated path traversal leading to conditional RCE” “customers can only guess as to who was to blame for the outage”
Comment from 19 Apr 2026 in “Vercel April 2026 security incident” Projects take more time
“I was ultimately surprised how much time actually went into that Webflow project.”
Comment from 2 Jan 2026 in “I charged $18,000 for a Static HTML Page (2019)” “Was it fun for software engineers to fix things in Webflow. No.”
Comment from 5 Feb 2026 in “AI Is Killing B2B SaaS”
Other AI app builders people recommend
The four most recommended other AI app builders, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lovable | 73 | 77 | 49% | 11 | — | — |
| Replit | 51 | 39 | 57% | 11 | 9 mo3 owners | — |
| Squarespace | 23 | 23 | 50% | 11 | — | — |
| Bolt.new | 20 | 14 | 59% | 9 | — | — |
| WebflowThis page | 5 | 12 | 29% | 4 | — | — |
What people said
All 20 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“the site is constantly breaking”
“its just not feeling worth it”
“overall, they are incredibly frustrating and full of tedious little proprietary quirks”
“the amount of "restructuring" Webflow has gone through is wild”
“webflow is far more featured and robust than Wix”
“We currently pay almost $5k/year for hosting/licenses and its just not feeling worth it.”
“Companies like webflow are following blindly an empty promise with the hope at some point it becomes self-fulfilling”
“Rebrand, slap on agentic AI and pray to google gods for a quick buyout.”
“Webflow exports still leave out CMS content entirely”
“customers can only guess as to who was to blame for the outage”
“both have a great user interface”
“Now that it's a module everyone can do, everyone literally does it for every module.”
“pretty facades over poorly optimized Webflow or WordPress instances”
“It's so good, but not for every literal text paragraph on your local bakery's website.”
“I stuck with Webflow and realized very quickly I'd made a huge mistake”
“Was it fun for software engineers to fix things in Webflow. No.”
“no fumbling around in the Webflow WYSIWYG interface anymore”
“We are currently sunsetting our use of Webflow for content management and hosting”
“I was ultimately surprised how much time actually went into that Webflow project.”
“it fits this use case very naturally”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.