Webflow and Friends with Janne Parri

I’m Janne Parri, your Webflow Wingman from Finland. In this podcast, I chat with designers, developers, and creative minds from around the world about Webflow, freelancing, and the creative life.

Webflow and Friends with Janne Parri is a technology podcast hosted by Janne Parri, with 68 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Janne Parri hosts Webflow and Friends with Janne Parri, a technology show with 68 episodes published.

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  POD 69 - Building India's First Official Webflow Chapter - Sandeepsingh Sisodiya

  Sep 28, 202653 min

  My guest this time is Sandeepsingh Sisodiya, co-founder and CEO of Appsrow, a Webflow Premium Partner agency in Ahmedabad, India. Sandeep started Appsrow in 2018 as a general branding and web agency and went all in on Webflow about four years ago. Earlier this year he started the first official Webflow community chapter in India, and at Webflow Conf in Boston he won Builder of the Year for that work. We talk about what it takes to start a local meetup and keep it running, and what a community gives back to an agency. Then we get into sales: why nobody wakes up wanting three CMS collections, how to move from pixel pushing to diagnosing the client's problem, how to find international clients from a small country, and what AI has changed in sales and what it hasn't. We finish with pricing, and whether outcome-based pricing is a realistic step away from hourly work. Check out Sandeepsingh Sisodiya: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandeepsisodiya22/ Appsrow: https://www.appsrow.com/ Also mentioned: Source by Webflow: https://webflow.com/source Webflow Cloud: https://webflow.com/cloud Webflow MCP: https://developers.webflow.com/mcp Webflow Conf: https://webflow.com/conf ChatGPT: https://chatgpt.com/ Claude: https://claude.ai/ Figma: https://www.figma.com/ Fiverr: https://www.fiverr.com/ Upwork: https://www.upwork.com/ Timestamps 00:00 Winning Builder of the Year at Webflow Conf 01:57 A first Webflow Conf, and the start of the India chapter 03:36 Intro 04:22 From general IT agency to Webflow agency 07:51 What Source by Webflow means for agencies 09:01 Moving from pixel pusher to strategist 11:18 Webflow branding, and picking the stack for the client 13:02 Is there still room for a Webflow-only agency? 16:03 How Appsrow uses AI and builds its own tools 19:04 The first official Webflow chapter in India 22:21 How to start your own meetup 24:04 What running a community gives back 29:05 Sales advice for builders who hate selling 31:59 Finding international clients from a small country 34:54 Are conferences a good way to find clients? 37:58 What AI changed in sales, and what it didn't 42:21 If AI can build a website, why hire an agency? 44:49 From hourly to outcome-based pricing 49:40 Where to find Sandeep 50:21 The Finnish Line

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  POD 68 - Webflow moved on. Did we?

  Sep 21, 202628 min

  For the past two years, I have done almost nothing but Webflow development, and Webflow is clearly building for marketers now. That changes what the next few years look like for people like me. I go through Ran Segall's video about the development phase shrinking and the responses to it, Timothy Ricks joining Webflow, and what Source by Webflow reveals about where the company is actually betting. I also get into what happens to the Webflow community, what is worth building when building got easy, and what I am going to do myself: more time on design, a first Astro build, and where this podcast goes. I do not have clean answers here. If you are sitting with the same question, leave a comment with what you are about to do. Videos mentioned: Ran Segall / Flux Academy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHcW2D3WGEI Timothy Ricks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qedt6elNsAM Cmd+AI commentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v0UdMsMP3EI Linda Tong on a podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KB3-qJ5j5T4 No-Code Supply Co. Ep. 11: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7LnDYjh5Hs Finsweet Spot on Astro: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3Ahtz5-Pds People mentioned: Ran Segall: https://www.youtube.com/@FluxAcademy / https://www.youtube.com/@ransegall Timothy Ricks: https://www.youtube.com/@timothyricks Samuel Gregory: https://www.youtube.com/@0x5am5 / https://www.youtube.com/@cmdAIshow Kabarza: https://www.youtube.com/@Kabarza Nelson Abalos Jr: https://www.youtube.com/@pixelgeek Matthew P Munger: https://www.youtube.com/@matthewpmunger Joe Krug: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joekrug/ Alex Iglesias: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexiglesias93/ Timestamps 00:00 The pressure to make a decision 00:18 No guest today, so this is a solo one 01:28 Ran Segall's video: the development phase is shrinking 02:42 Has AI already solved front-end development? 03:45 Timothy Ricks: there is still a place for a technical person 05:47 Can you still be a Webflow-only developer? 06:39 Going deeper into development, the option nobody listed 07:24 Design or marketing: which one pulls you? 08:40 Webflow is moving towards marketers, and the conf showed it 10:11 The opening for anyone who likes marketing 11:13 What Source by Webflow reveals about the bet 13:05 Astro and static builds are a real option now 14:34 Will Webflow Classic still have a use case? 15:03 Brand yourself as a website person, not a Webflow person 16:54 Three scenarios for the Webflow community 19:16 What is worth building, with an AI twist 21:30 What I am going to do 22:54 Why design pulls me more than marketing 25:24 Practicing design, and my first Astro build 27:05 What happens to this podcast

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  What Webflow Conf Means for the Community - Rick Bossenbroek

  Sep 14, 202659 min

  Webflow Conf just wrapped in Boston, and I wanted to talk to someone who spends as much time building the Webflow community as he does building on it. My guest is Rick Bossenbroek, a Webflow Global Leader for Amsterdam and the founder of Uncode. He was also a Builder of the Year nominee at this year's Conf. We talk about what Source and the new marketing features mean for the community, whether the Global Leader program has a future now that Webflow's community team has shrunk, and how years of unpaid community work turned into real client trust. Rick also runs Day 42, a builder community for people with day jobs, and RunClubs.nl, a directory for Dutch run clubs that he is quietly trying to turn into a Strava competitor. Check out Rick Bossenbroek: https://www.instagram.com/rickbossenbroek/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/rick-bossenbroek/ Also mentioned: Timothy Ricks: https://www.timothyricks.com/ Chris Skitch: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cskitch/ Sandeepsingh Sisodiya: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sandeepsisodiya22/ Uncode: https://www.uncode.nl/ RunClubs.nl: https://runclubs.nl/ Day 42: https://day42.co/ Mollie: https://www.mollie.com/ Strava: https://www.strava.com/ ‍♂️ About Janne I'm Janne, a freelance Webflow developer and podcast host based in Finland. On this channel, I talk to agency owners, award-winning designers, and experienced builders about the business and strategy side of creative work. I also try out new apps, exciting features and share what I learn from my journey. ️ About Webflow and Friends Webflow and Friends is my interview show for the Webflow community. Every episode I talk to a different designer, developer, or agency owner about how they actually work: what they build, how they price it, what they've changed their mind about, and what's annoying them in the tooling right now. Timestamps 00:00 What Webflow Conf means for the community 02:30 How Source could open Webflow to new builders 04:32 Intro 05:53 From introvert to community builder 07:28 Starting the Dutch Webflow community 09:03 Becoming a Global Leader and running watch parties 11:51 What he'd fix about the Global Leader program 13:41 Day 42: unlocking builders' potential 19:01 Partners, Mollie, and the Build House plan 22:13 Boston, the watch party, and the Builder of the Year nomination 24:54 Favorite Webflow Conf announcements 28:18 Webflow Optimize, Analyze, and the cookie banner rant 33:46 Has community building actually grown his business? 36:53 Building communities: the secret sauce 40:32 Just do it: starting something in Helsinki 44:14 RunClubs.nl: how it started 46:58 Building the run club platform with AI 52:17 Ads and monetization, carefully 56:26 Where to find Rick 57:20 The Finnish Line

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  POD 66 - Source by Webflow, and all the open questions - Ollie McMillan

  Sep 7, 20261h 16m

  I got Ollie McMillan on the show to go through everything that was announced. The big one is Source by Webflow, a new workspace built around code as the source of truth, and we spend a good chunk of the episode trying to work out who it's actually for and why nobody said a word about pricing. We also get into Timothy Ricks joining Webflow, the AEO updates, MCP 2.1, and the smaller quality-of-life changes from the Builders Keynote. Ollie was there in the room for all of it, so this is his read on the actual event, not just the announcements.Check out Ollie McMillan:https://www.olliemcmillan.co.uk/https://www.linkedin.com/in/olivermcmillan/https://x.com/olliemcmillanWebflow Announcements:Source by Webflow: https://webflow.com/sourceAnnouncement blog: https://webflow.com/blog/webflow-conf-2026-announcementsAlso mentioned:Timothy Ricks - https://www.timothyricks.com/Utkarsh Sengar - https://www.linkedin.com/in/utsengar/Dennis Snellenberg - https://dennissnellenberg.com/Ilja van Eck - https://www.iljavaneck.com/Nathan Huening - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathan-ftw/Episode with Nathan - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2HJxWPc02YNate Parrott (Claude Design origin story) - https://www.dive.club/deep-dives/nate-parrott-2Cursor - https://cursor.comGSAP - https://gsap.comAstro - https://astro.buildNext.js - https://nextjs.orgTimestamps00:00 What Source by Webflow actually is5:40 Meet Ollie McMillan6:34 Vibe check: previous Webflow Confs and Boston 20267:20 How the community responded to the announcements9:03 The missing aha moment, and why the Builders Keynote landed better11:36 No pricing announced. Is Source enterprise only?12:42 Guessing how Source will be priced17:29 Which frameworks Source will support21:08 Visual development, GSAP, and contextual UI inside Source26:36 When Source actually ships28:15 Timothy Ricks joins Webflow34:40 Is Webflow moving fast enough38:48 Is Webflow becoming an advertising platform, and pricing for campaigns42:57 The new assets panel, explained50:12 Releases and page branching52:42 AEO, and who it's actually for59:36 MCP 2.1, IX3 animation, and building agent skills1:06:46 Components in rich text1:09:59 Rating Webflow Conf 2026, and whale watching in Boston1:12:18 Where to find Ollie1:13:42 The Finnish Line

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  POD 65 - Designers Need To Build Parallel Skills - Punit Chawla

  Aug 31, 20261h 12m

  Punit Chawla has been teaching design online since 2015, and today he runs Designwings, makes videos full time and hosts design events across India. He gave up client work about five years ago. We talk about what he calls parallel skills, the idea that a designer should add something next to their niche instead of branching away from it, and why that is not the same as giving up on specialising. We also get into what designers actually do with AI day to day, where Figma is heading and what the smaller tools are doing better, how the lines between designers, developers and product managers have thinned out, and why he thinks every designer is already a content creator. Near the end he explains how his events started, and how you could run one in your own town with 25 people and a small room. Check out Punit Chawla: https://www.linkedin.com/in/punitweb https://www.instagram.com/punitchawlaofficial/ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkfdb6tUwVoGXPPzY7H6hUg https://designwings.in https://medium.com/@punitweb https://www.behance.net/punitweb Also mentioned: Punit's ebook: https://punitchawla.gumroad.com/l/magnet https://www.figma.com https://lottiefiles.com https://maze.co https://zeplin.io https://codepen.io https://bubble.io https://www.sketch.com https://affinity.serif.com https://dribbble.com Timestamps:00:00 Teaser00:30 Parallel skills, and why one direction is a risk02:57 Does that break your niche?04:50 Intro05:46 From a first meetup to giving up client work09:21 What designers actually do with AI13:55 Are clients asking for AI?20:29 Where Figma is heading26:45 Design tools that output production code30:30 Motion, slides and no code35:13 Designers, developers and product managers doing each other's jobs38:30 Every tool now looks like Figma43:11 Webflow, the alternatives and micro tools45:18 Hate comments, and what is behind them47:42 Should every designer make content?52:20 Posting every small experiment53:42 Choosing your first platform59:16 Why he started running events1:05:24 Starting an event in your own town1:09:53 The Finnish Line

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