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Recently, I came across a post by an amazing creator whose content I genuinely enjoy reading. She was breaking down different marketplaces for selling Framer templates and sharing her experience trying to grow a template business across multiple platforms.

What caught my attention the most was what she wrote about UI8.

After doing some research, I realized that it’s generally considered quite difficult to get accepted there. UI8 has very high quality standards for both creators and the products they publish. They manually review every creator and decide whether they meet their criteria.

After reading all of that, I decided to apply that same night.

Ironically, the fact that they have a relatively small number of creators and focus on premium products and a high-spending audience made me want to get in even more.

In my application, I shared who we are, mentioned that we're officially recognized as Framer Experts and Rive Experts, and attached our Estela template.

A few hours later, I got the email.

We were accepted. 🎉

Now I'm finishing the documentation for Estela so I can submit it as our first product. The template itself still has to go through manual review, but I think the hardest part is already behind us.

Cool