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Ask HN: A Web template created in just HTML and CSS. Would you consider buying?

8 points by interfacesketch ↗ HN
These are thousands of Web templates available for different products and frameworks e.g. WordPress, Ghost, Bootstrap, React, Vue, Hugo etc.

Would you ever consider buying a website template written simply in clean HTML and CSS, and with an attractive layout and graphics (but not tied to a product or framework)?

I ask because I am interested in creating something like this. But is it futile given how saturated the market for templates is? Would you only be interested in a template available for the framework or product you use?

8 comments

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flurly
I'd love this. Nowadays frameworks are so complicated and opaque that it's hard to understand what's going on. Simple templates would be amazing. Maybe start simple with e-mail templates? Those are notoriously hard to get right.
radicalriddler
I don't know how reputable they are, but envato has a marketplace for HTML site templates at https://elements.envato.com/web-templates/site-templates

I don't think a lot of them are particularly good though, and you might be able to fill a niche by making actual semantic web templates, with good clean design.

dylz
99%+ of them are all terrible. Think jQuery 1 written in 2020 with hundreds of useless includes, over 50 web fonts loaded simultaneously to frontload on the feature list while providing nothing of value.
gtirloni
Yes, I would. Please leave a reference to your product here when it's done.
brtkdotse
If you want a data point, I purchased a Tailwind-based landing page template for 49$ and would've easily paid double.
interfacesketch
Thank you everyone for your encouraging comments. As with any product, there's always the fear of "if I build, will they come?" But without building, I'll never know. So time to get building :-)
pdevr
Yes, I will. Please post here when you build one. Clean and simple code is rare.