After 12 years of selling web & mobile templates, we're Open-Sourcing all of them for Free

Hey, Dear Webdev community!

Back in 2013, I was just a broke university student with an idea. I spent six months building my first web template - a simple Bootstrap template called Light Blue with a transparent design and gradient background (which was kind of a big deal back then). I even took a small loan from my mom to make it happen (she wasn’t exactly thrilled about the whole plan :)).

To my surprise, it worked. I started selling 200-300 copies per month, and what began as a side project turned into a business. People weren’t just buying the template - they started reaching out, asking, "Can you customize this for my project?" That’s how my company was born.

Over the next decade, we expanded from one template to 28 templates across React, Angular, Vue, Bootstrap, and more. We sold over 20,000 licenses, helped companies build products on top of our code, and even saw some of our early team members launch their own similar companies.

But the industry changed. Templates became less about static designs and more about dynamic, customizable applications. Moreover, we found that for every client we always repeat some common parts like: CRUD, authentication, authorization, data sorting, filtering, AI-widgets, REST API, email verification, and many other features common for SAAS and <data> management apps, so we shifted our focus to building tools that generate sort of "dynamic templates" tailored to a specific case. With that shift, we realized it was time to let go of the old and make space for what’s next.

So we decided to open-source the entire library as a final salute to where we started. It feels right to sunset the old templates after a decade, proud that we sold up to 20,000 licenses and helped many users get a head start on their projects. All 28 of our ex-premium templates. No strings attached - just free, fully accessible code for anyone who wants to use it, tweak it or build something new. A few of them even come with Node.js backends to get you started faster.

You can check them out here: https://flatlogic.com/templates
Or dive straight into the code: https://github.com/orgs/flatlogic/repositories?type=all

Would love to hear your thoughts. If you find them useful, that’s the best kind of feedback.

Cheers!