Philosophy
Just another theme and template shop?
Yes and no. I will keep pushing free themes from time to time, but most of the templates here are premium. What you are paying for is years of work and knowledge, put together.
What I mean by that
In my book, if something can be achieved freely, it should not cost anything. That is why I keep contributing to the open source community, on GitHub and on Reddit. I cannot be more of an open book about it. Transparency and genuineness are what brought me to where I am now:
reddit.com/user/kemalios github.com/Wunderlandmedia
I also have bills to pay. And I am certain that a lot of what I give away, knowledge, code snippets, whole approaches, gets rewrapped and sold under a different name. The people doing it call themselves hustlers. Don't hate the player, hate the game, and so on.
I cannot do that. If I know you could get something for free from a contributor on GitHub, I am not going to rewrap it and sell it to you. I have to be able to look at myself in the mirror the next morning.
So what makes these templates worth it
The skills I added to each and every one of them. There are three, and they run in order:
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dev-workflow - For when you do not know what you are doing, but you do want to change the template without breaking it. It works the way a developer would: understand what couples to what, then edit.
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dev-test - When the workflow finishes it fires this off automatically: tests for the feature you just implemented, so you find out that everything still works from a test run and not from a customer.
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dev-review - The last bouncer at the door. It reads the codebase with fresh eyes and catches what the workflow skipped or where it drifted off its guardrails.
In the age of AI, everyone should be able to build products for themselves, for their company, for other people to use. But safely. That is what those skills are for, and that is what I am putting the price on.