What Actually Happened
In February 2025, Andrej Karpathy (former Tesla AI director and OpenAI founding member) posted about a new way he builds software. He called it “vibe coding”: describing what you want, letting AI write the code, and barely looking at the output. The term went from 10 searches/month to 135,000 in two months.
Then the tools exploded. Cursor became the AI code editor of choice. Claude started writing entire applications. v0, Bolt, and Lovable turned text prompts into deployable apps. Lovable raised $200M at a $1.8B valuation. An ex-Google engineer open-sourced Dyad as an alternative to all of them.
The promise was simple: anyone can code now. But is that true?
What 90% of Framer Users Build (And What They're Missing)
Most Framer users build the same things: portfolios, landing pages, SaaS marketing sites, agency websites. Framer handles these beautifully. But the moment you need something Framer doesn't offer (a real database, custom forms without Zapier, user authentication, dynamic content), you're stuck.
What Framer Does Well
- Beautiful visual design tools
- Responsive layouts & interactions
- Component system
- Fast prototyping
- Great for the design phase
What You Unlock with Code + AI
- Supabase/Postgres for a real CMS (no item caps)
- Custom forms: no 3rd-party tools needed
- Auth, payments, user dashboards
- Any API, any integration, anything
- $0/mo hosting: forever
The secret: AI output quality = your requirement quality. The better you describe what you want, the better the result. This isn't a limitation. It's how all software development works. And AI tools are getting better every single week. What was experimental in early 2025 is production-ready now.
What People Are Actually Building
Vibe coding this app in 2 months I learned way more than I would have by just learning.
I built a full price comparison platform in 32 hours using Cursor and Claude. I'm a designer with zero backend experience.
Framer doubled the price and now caps CMS items. I have 3 client sites and I'm paying $90/month to host what are static pages.
The pattern: people who define clear requirements ship real products with AI. A designer who knows exactly what their portfolio should do can build it with Cursor in a day. A founder who writes specific user stories gets a working MVP from Claude. The skill isn't coding anymore. It's knowing what you want.
The Bridge: NoCode + Code
You don't have to abandon Framer. You just stop being limited by it.
Design in Framer
Use the best visual tool. Components, interactions, responsive layouts. Free tier.
Export to Code
FramerExport gives you clean HTML, CSS & JS you own. $10.99 per site (first 25 only).
Build Whatever You Need
Use Cursor or Claude to add Supabase, custom forms, auth, dynamic content: things Framer can't do.
Framer gives you the best design tools. Code gives you zero limitations. AI makes the code part effortless. That's the actual future: nocode to code.
Stop being limited by your platform.
Export your Framer site to code. Add Supabase, custom forms, auth: whatever your project needs. No more workarounds. No more plugin dependency. $10.99 per site (first 25 only).
Export Your Framer SiteFrequently Asked Questions
Vibe coding is a term coined by Andrej Karpathy in February 2025. It means using AI tools to write code by describing what you want in plain English instead of writing it yourself. Tools like Cursor, Claude, v0, Bolt, and Lovable all enable vibe coding. The term went from 10 monthly searches to 90,500 within a year.
No. Nocode is the design layer. Code is the ownership layer. Framer is still the best visual website builder. Nothing matches its design tools. But you shouldn't be limited by what Framer can do. Export to code, then use AI tools to add everything Framer can't: real databases (Supabase), custom forms, auth, dynamic content. That's the power move.
Anything. Connect Supabase for a real CMS with no item caps. Add user authentication and dashboards. Build custom forms without Zapier or 3rd-party tools. Integrate Stripe for payments. Add dynamic content from any API. Once you own the code, the only limit is what you ask the AI to build. And with tools like Cursor and Claude, you describe what you want in plain English.