Framer doesn't let you export your own website's code. So I built the export button.

Framer is a great website builder. But it won't let you download your own site as HTML/CSS/JS. Their help center says it straight up: "Framer does not support exporting your site as code."

You build it, you pay $10-$100/mo per site to host it, but you never own the code. Want to self-host? Hand it to a client? Move to a faster CDN? Can't.

So I built the tool myself.

How it works: Paste a Framer URL. A headless browser crawls every page, downloads all assets, strips out React hydration scripts, and packages everything as a static HTML/CSS/JS ZIP. Drop it on Vercel, Netlify, your own server. Done.

Pricing: $10.99 one-time per site. No subscription.

Why one-time? People export a site once, maybe twice. Charging monthly for that didn't sit right. And the numbers work out: Framer Pro is $30/mo per site. Export for $10.99, host on Vercel's free tier. You break even in 11 days.

The hard part was not the scraping. It was Framer's React internals. Their sites hydrate on load, so if you just save the HTML, React tries to take over, fails, and the page goes blank. Scroll animations use opacity: 0 (half your content turns invisible). Hover effects are applied through JS, not CSS. I had to reverse-engineer all of that into static equivalents. The crawler ended up at ~1,100 lines of JS.

3 weeks in. No ads, no outreach, just SEO so far. Google is showing the site for 170+ queries already. But here's the thing: most pages aren't even indexed yet because the domain has zero backlinks. This post is me finally starting distribution.

Biggest mistake so far: I spent 3 weeks building 36 pages of content before talking to anyone. 10 pages + 10 backlinks beats 36 pages + 0 backlinks every time. Don't repeat that.

If you want to try it: letaiworkforme.com. Export and preview are free. You only pay to download the ZIP.

Have you ever been stuck on a no-code platform and had to find a way out? Curious how others handle it.