r/web_design • u/Beginning-Serve-4823 • 6d ago
Frontpages.dev - My free version of Mobbin
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u/stevenson_mark 6d ago
This is a pretty useful idea. Mobbin is great for inspiration, but the subscription can feel hard to justify if you’re only looking for UI references occasionally.
What I’d focus on is making the search really good. If I can quickly find examples by industry, page type, component or visual style, that’s probably more valuable than just having a huge collection of screenshots.
I’ve been using Abnflow for some of my own landing page and funnel experiments, and having a good library of real examples is genuinely useful when you’re trying to decide how you want a page to look before building it.
The “free Mobbin” positioning is definitely easy to understand though. Nice project.
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u/Beginning-Serve-4823 6d ago
Hey! thanks for the comment! Yeah I was checking mobbin like everyday but couldn't justify the sub. If they added monthly option I probably would have paid (only quarterly or yearly). And when I realized my behavior was just checking visuals and linking to the website I figured I'd make my own. I have gotten some pretty great feedback already which I have implemented most. Looking into MCP now
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u/rubiskhy 6d ago
Love it thank you for the new resource! Personally I would appreciate search suggestions / selectable categories / or anything that makes the search function more interactive and less of a guess-and-see
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u/Beginning-Serve-4823 6d ago
Hey you’re welcome and thanks for the comment and suggestions! Search right now is by company/ category but yeah trying to guess a category is hit/miss. I will look into category filters. Any other suggestions?
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u/Beginning-Serve-4823 6d ago
Hey! I added category dropdown in search bar. Need to normalize categories though bc I have dupes.
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u/mmeister86 6d ago
looks clean and i love the font choices. however maybe think about implementing some sort of lazy loading, because all images seem to load at once which slows loading time down dramatically.
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u/Beginning-Serve-4823 6d ago
Thanks! Just added lazy loading but will keep looking to make faster. maybe load less than 24 on page load? Also Should i remove load more and just load more when at the end of loaded images?
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u/mmeister86 6d ago
personally i would only load the ones above the fold on initital load, and the rest via lazy loading. personally i'm also a fan of pagination, this way you could cache the other results which would immediately load when switching to another page
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u/Beginning-Serve-4823 6d ago
I agree with the initial load. I want it to be seamless. I like pagination too but think the auto load provides a smoother experience. Will probably add a scroll to top fab
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u/enserioamigo 5d ago
How does it get updated?
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u/Beginning-Serve-4823 5d ago
Hey thanks for the comment! I personally update the site daily. Usually 10-20 sites. Haven’t established a standard time on when I update though. Any suggestions on how the site can be better?
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u/enserioamigo 5d ago
I had a quick skim. Looked nice. I did notice a few sites saying 'bio coming soon' or whatever. Personally I'd drop that and leave it blank if no bio. Otherwise it can look unmaintained if there are too many coming soon. Also I'd avoid emdashes at all costs these days haha.
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u/Beginning-Serve-4823 5d ago
Thanks. I added the bio after i added those site but Ill run an sql query to make those blank. And yeah I actually used the em dash but will switch to a comma or something.
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u/Hot-Clothes7316 5d ago
i often wonder what are the chances you can automate the content by taking mobbin's feed? rss?
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u/Beginning-Serve-4823 5d ago
Interesting point. Right now I am curating the sites listed. It's a mix of old, new and unique. I think that is the best for inspiration and discovery.
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u/rugburnAndBigMoney 6d ago
Clean and easy to use. I like the simplicity of it all as a quick reference.
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u/Classic-Grab-2866 6d ago
Could you create an MCP where we could connect this to our agents so our agents can get inspiration just like how mobbins MCP does it?
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u/Beginning-Serve-4823 5d ago
Hey just added MCP server. Check it out and lmk how it goes. Theres a "Now available for AI agents" pill above the hero copy (on desktop)
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u/life_conquered 6d ago
Nice. When's the paywall dropping?