POD 53 - We're Harsh Because We Care - with Matt Evans

Matt Evans is an award-winning Webflow developer from Dublin. He runs Fido and Patch, a studio that builds everything from marketing sites to AI-enabled products. He won the Webflow Technical Builder Award in 2022 and has been pushing beyond Webflow with AI tools over the past couple of years.In this episode we talk about what Matt sees as Webflow's biggest problem right now, and it is not technical. We get into the communication gap between Webflow and its community, what the golden days felt like and why they are hard to repeat, and whether Webflow is at risk of losing the freelancers and small agencies that helped build it. We also talk about the client editing experience, the developer tools like Webflow Cloud and AppGen, and how Matt thinks about the split between Webflow core and a dedicated client interface. And we spend time on where Matt is taking his own business, using AI to build products beyond traditional Webflow work, and what that shift actually looks like day to day.Check out Matt:https://www.fidoandpatch.com/https://www.linkedin.com/in/mattyevs/Also mentioned:Episode with Nathan Huening - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4SjwOYYps8Shop Talk Show Episode - https://shoptalkshow.com/710/Matthew P Munger - https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthewpmunger/Hal Zeitlin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/halzeitlin/Alessia Sannazzaro - https://www.youtube.com/@ale_sannazzaroJulian Galluzzo - https://www.youtube.com/@MemberstackShip Studio - https://www.youtube.com/@shipstudio_appMichael Wells - https://www.sygnal.com/Ailin Tobin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/ail%C3%ADn-j-tobin-web-design/Timestamps00:00 Teaser00:16 Biggest Beef08:57 Matt's Journey17:26 AI and Problems to Solve25:04 Where to Store the Context?33:12 Webflow CMS Idea34:59 Tool vs. Service40:13 Client Experience vs. Developer Needs44:54 Webflow's Position in the Market48:22 The Risk of Losing New Users53:25 State of the Webflow Community57:13 Webflow's Developer Features01:02:16 Communicating About Those Developer Features01:09:42 Preparing for the Future in Web Design01:15:19 About Uncertainty and Pressure That AI Brings01:23:42 The Weird Finnish Thing