Why I built Pixelus I’ve been thinking a lot about the friction between "showing" work andWhy I built Pixelus I’ve been thinking a lot about the friction between "showing" work and
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I’ve been thinking a lot about the friction between "showing" work and "running" a business.
For a long time, my portfolio was just a static gallery. But as I started taking on more client work and selling digital products, I realized I was spending more time managing fragmented tools than actually creating.
I wanted a single ecosystem.
I built Pixelus to bridge that gap. It’s a Framer template, but I approached it as business infrastructure, a way to remove maintenance overhead so your site acts as an engine, not a chore.
How do you handle the balance between maintaining your portfolio and managing your business operations?
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Landing page design for Lumo — banking for freelance life
Banks sell control — dashboards, charts, a card floating at fifteen degrees. Freelancers don't want control over their money. They want to stop thinking about it in the gap between sending an invoice and the money landing.
That gap is what the page is built on. The product sits in a meadow instead of on a dark grid, because the promise isn't "manage your finances better" — it's "we handle the part that keeps you up." And the strongest line on the page isn't a feature: no waiting for Monday. Freelancers don't lose weekends to fees. They lose them to timing.
The proof follows the same rule. One freelancer, one number — 4% lost on every international payment. A percentage someone can check against their own account beats any adjective.
the floating bottom bar with the cart button is a nice touch, buying stays one tap away. are the 3D objects video loops or rendered images? that usually decides how fast a page like this loads