Helen Statsevich | Framer Expert

Yay, I have made it, submission for the Contra challenge! Squish — a skin you can touch ^-^ live demo: squish-xi.vercel.app/preview… Super happy about this, becaused I have used Blender and it was super fast on the new computer. contra.com/community/zZ4aan5…

Hi, I'm Helen, and here is my life before and after subscribing to Claude Max, yay! Would love to connect with builders, solopreneurs, startup owners, designers and web devs, anyone who is genuinely into creating things! Share yr GitHub screenshot! 👀

Down to the inspiration board. Today was all about polishing WebEmber's folder view ✨. It's not just a list of inspirations, but a real board for thinking. Connected to Claude, it feels like a superpower. Everything runs locally on your desktop, and using your own LLM subscription.

Hello my friends, and wishing you great day! Went out to work a bit from cafe , if you stop in Kraków totally recommend Cytat cafe, warm and cozy! What are you building today?

1 am., building an app requires enormous amount of attention, there is no end 😄

Today I worked a bit on the AI art-director feature of WebEmber, desktop inspiration app ✨, and it's not just a simple list of design decisions, it smoothly scrolls through the entire design, pointing out the details. It was fun to look at my own website through AI eyes 😄 The AI art director prompt and the extension for saving still need some careful work, especially for long websites packed with animation. It works much better with static designs. Would you like to try it? 👀

Pushing pixels of WebEmber literally all day 😄 And special thanks to the man who suggested customizing folder preview images (can’t tag him) 🫶🏻 The folder shelf animation has also improved. It gives a physical feeling of closing. Love it so much! And I’d really love to hear your thoughts and suggestions!

Polishing Moodboard preview folders of WebEmber ✨

Using WebEmber I`m building to build itself 😄 Video was always the bottleneck in ref tools for me you save a piece of motion and then... you cant slow it down, can't work work with the exact frame, can`t pull a range of frames out. Now I can and the first real use was not even inspiration: my animation felt off and I couldn`t say where and and how to describe it to Claude precisely to improve, so the workflow: → recorded the section → slowed it down inside my own tool - 0,25 speed → pulled the range out as a frame list → dropped it to Claude and pointed at frames: here it breaks, and here two things move at once. Done! Claude/Codex doesn`t watch motion, but it reads a frame list fine, so instead of me typing “idk, feels cheap and jumps, improve ” we actually giving real explanations and problem points and things I couldn't spot on normal speed ✨ #buildinpublic #WebEmber✨

I was curious about bots, but didn't want to install Hermes or pay for another subscription for Grok bot, so here's a nice bot that's totally free at the moment. I don't know about privacy concerns or the model under the hood, but it's a pretty interesting experience if you want to get a taste of AI agents. wabi.ai Do you use bots? Which ones?

First time showing this, yay! I'm building WebEmber, a tool I use myself daily to become a better designer. An app for collecting things that catch my eye. ✨ Every designer works with references. The problem is how we save them: a screenshot, pretty but static. We have millions of images that we forget a few hours later without actually studying them or noticing the details behind the designer's choices. WebEmber goes deeper. It saves the reasons why you like something: the colors, the type scale, the spacing rhythm, the motion and hover states, and all the design tokens you can study and apply. It also has an AI art director that studies the design and points out details you might have missed. Love it so much! #buildinpublic

I've got a new MacBook Pro! What should I install? Won it in @contra's latest giveaway challenge, big, big thanks! 🫶 And the computer is in its max configuration! That's generous! Happy to be part of Contra! 😎

I was supposed to be at an AI conference today. But yesterday an ASAP website design client landed, so I locked in on the brief for the weekend and the build instead. I`m curious, what would you choose: the client or the conference and potential contacts instead?

AI can challenge a brief, but it doesn't have the same stake in the outcome as a designer who owns the work and has to stand behind their decisions.

The ability to take risks, explore unconventional paths, and approach the design process with empathy matters more than ever 👏🏻

Recently, I ran a small experiment on X and figured out that weekends are the cheapest time to get reach. My last few weekend posts got the most engagement here. Why: Big accounts post coffee and sunsets, “happy weekend to all,” and the feed goes soft. How: Drop one short controversial take people can argue with, and you're competing with almost nothing. And did you spot any insights too?

Today I went a bit too far and rebuilt Calendar view (everything is sync with other calendars), the question was what if make calendars a bit more fun, like a diary of life, not just work, with adding photos, stickers, gifs, sticky notes! I was dreaming about it a year ago and now its just question of few hours of creating... Amazing times!

Okay, I have posted 2 times yesterday, it`s time to disappear for a week 😄