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Frame

Portfolio builder with dashboard to manage content and portfolio viewer

Web app Rated 7 Oct 2026Dormant

Built by
Tech Nerd

Bloat

122/500

Where it landed on the scale

Bloat
0
Float
300
Moat
400

Summary

Frame is a working-looking portfolio builder with a dashboard, viewer and API, but it was announced over a few days in December 2024 and has been silent since. There's no pricing, no payments and no support channel, and a portfolio site is easy to copy, so it reads as a solid side project and not yet a business.

Bloat · Not much here works or looks likely to last, yet.

Breakdown

Five measures, 100 points each. Open the receipts under any of them to see the posts and pages behind the points.

Viability

Is there a real problem, someone who would pay, and a market this builder can actually reach?

Developers do want portfolio sites, but the market is crowded with free options and the project shows no way to charge for it.

22/100

Rubric 21–40A real problem, but no plausible path to anyone paying, or a market well out of this builder's reach.

Receipts (2)
  1. Pitches a portfolio site for devs with a dashboard and API, but mentions no price or paid tier.

    “Frame : portfolio Builder for Devs - Create Account & Sign In - Personal Dashboard: Add your info, articles, and projects effortlessly. - Get your personalized site out of the box. - Flexible API: Use our endpoints to integrate with your own UI. Link : frame.nerdspacer.com @selfmadecoder”

    Post · @selfmadecoder · 24 Dec 2024 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

  2. The live site shows no pricing, payments or accounts-facing signals of a business model.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · frame.nerdspacer.com (opens in a new tab)

Moat

What stops someone copying it?

A standard Next.js, Prisma and Better Auth portfolio app that a local developer could rebuild in a weekend.

8/100

Rubric 0–20A thin wrapper or a clone that anyone here could rebuild in a weekend.

Receipts (2)
  1. The stack is off-the-shelf (Next.js, Hono, Prisma, shadcn, Better Auth) with no proprietary data or local depth.

    “Hey everyone! Here’s the Portfolio Builder project I’ve been working on: https://github.com/yeabnoah/Frame. It’s built with Next.js, HonoJS, PostgreSQL using Prisma ORM, shadcn with Tailwind CSS, and Better Auth. The project has two main parts. First, there’s the dashboard (/dashboard), where you or any dev can sign in to manage content—add personal info, projects, your tech stack, articles, and”

    Post · @selfmadecoder · 21 Dec 2024 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

  2. Open source with no license and no releases, so nothing stops a copy.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · github.com/yeabnoah/Frame (opens in a new tab)

Momentum

Did the updates keep coming?

It was worked on across about three days in late December 2024 and nothing has shipped since, so it's been idle for over 650 days.

0/100

  • Sustained shipping0/60

    Worked on across 3 days.

  • Consistency0/40

    Updates in 1 of 1 month.

  • Quiet

    No update for 652 days, so scaled to 20%.

Receipts (2)
  1. Earliest post about it.

    “Hey everyone! Here’s the Portfolio Builder project I’ve been working on: https://github.com/yeabnoah/Frame. It’s built with Next.js, HonoJS, PostgreSQL using Prisma ORM, shadcn with Tailwind CSS, and Better Auth. The project has two main parts. First, there’s the dashboard (/dashboard), where you or any dev can sign in to manage content—add personal info, projects, your tech stack, articles, and”

    Post · @selfmadecoder · 21 Dec 2024 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

  2. Most recent post about it.

    “Frame : portfolio Builder for Devs - Create Account & Sign In - Personal Dashboard: Add your info, articles, and projects effortlessly. - Get your personalized site out of the box. - Flexible API: Use our endpoints to integrate with your own UI. Link : frame.nerdspacer.com @selfmadecoder”

    Post · @selfmadecoder · 24 Dec 2024 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

Infrastructure

Does a real, working product exist?

A deployed app with a dashboard, viewer and API appears to exist, but the creator reported a login cookie bug in production and nothing confirms it was fixed.

64/100

  • It's live20/20

    https://github.com/yeabnoah/Frame responded when checked.

  • HTTPS5/5

    Hosted on a platform (store, GitHub or Telegram), so HTTPS is the platform's.

  • Real product25/35

    The creator describes sign-in, a dashboard for info, projects and articles, and a portfolio viewer, but also says a login cookie bug breaks the deployed version, and the live site page returned almost nothing to the crawler.

  • Own home10/10

    Lives on its own domain (frame.nerdspacer.com).

  • Maintained0/15

    Last sign of shipping 2024-12-24.

  • Operations4/15

    There's a backend, a database and a separate subdomain setup plus an API mention, but no docs, status page, or other platform.

Receipts (5)
  1. https://github.com/yeabnoah/Frame responded when checked.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · github.com/yeabnoah/Frame (opens in a new tab)

  2. Says it's 'pretty much done' but that cookies fail after login in the deployed version.

    “Hey everyone! Here’s the Portfolio Builder project I’ve been working on: https://github.com/yeabnoah/Frame. It’s built with Next.js, HonoJS, PostgreSQL using Prisma ORM, shadcn with Tailwind CSS, and Better Auth. The project has two main parts. First, there’s the dashboard (/dashboard), where you or any dev can sign in to manage content—add personal info, projects, your tech stack, articles, and”

    Post · @selfmadecoder · 21 Dec 2024 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

  3. Lists account creation, a personal dashboard, a generated site and API endpoints.

    “Frame : portfolio Builder for Devs - Create Account & Sign In - Personal Dashboard: Add your info, articles, and projects effortlessly. - Get your personalized site out of the box. - Flexible API: Use our endpoints to integrate with your own UI. Link : frame.nerdspacer.com @selfmadecoder”

    Post · @selfmadecoder · 24 Dec 2024 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

  4. The crawler found the site live but detected no accounts and no docs.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · frame.nerdspacer.com (opens in a new tab)

  5. Describes a separate backend and frontend on subdomains with PostgreSQL.

    “Hey everyone! Here’s the Portfolio Builder project I’ve been working on: https://github.com/yeabnoah/Frame. It’s built with Next.js, HonoJS, PostgreSQL using Prisma ORM, shadcn with Tailwind CSS, and Better Auth. The project has two main parts. First, there’s the dashboard (/dashboard), where you or any dev can sign in to manage content—add personal info, projects, your tech stack, articles, and”

    Post · @selfmadecoder · 21 Dec 2024 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

Sustainability

Is it being set up to last?

It has its own domain but no pricing, payments, privacy policy, terms or support contact, and the creator has gone quiet, so there's no visible path to sustaining it.

28/100

  • Distribution25/30

    A web app on its own domain.

  • Payments0/15

    No payment provider found.

  • Pricing0/10

    No pricing found on the site.

  • Revenue0/5

    No post mentions customers, payments or revenue.

  • Privacy policy0/7

    No privacy policy found.

  • Terms0/5

    No terms of service found.

  • Support0/8

    No support contact found.

  • Commitment3/20

    One person built it and posted twice in four days, asked for community PRs, and there's no roadmap, team, or dedicated channel; activity stopped in December 2024.

Receipts (4)
  1. A web app on its own domain.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · frame.nerdspacer.com (opens in a new tab)

  2. No payment provider or pricing was found on the site.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · frame.nerdspacer.com (opens in a new tab)

  3. Invites others to debug and send a PR, but shows no team or roadmap.

    “Hey everyone! Here’s the Portfolio Builder project I’ve been working on: https://github.com/yeabnoah/Frame. It’s built with Next.js, HonoJS, PostgreSQL using Prisma ORM, shadcn with Tailwind CSS, and Better Auth. The project has two main parts. First, there’s the dashboard (/dashboard), where you or any dev can sign in to manage content—add personal info, projects, your tech stack, articles, and”

    Post · @selfmadecoder · 21 Dec 2024 · open on Telegram (opens in a new tab)

  4. Last push was 2024-12-24 and there are no releases.

    Checked 7 Oct 2026 · github.com/yeabnoah/Frame (opens in a new tab)