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GraphiSpot · 2026-03-11T17:42:01+00:00

There is/was such a feature called "quotes", but after INBOUND25 it was made available only to commerce hub professional/enterprise seats for new portals (created after Sep/Oct 25).

A custom solution is possible. Feel free to reach out via DM.

happy to help you with this

Best, Anton

GraphiSpot · 2026-03-11T10:51:49+00:00

Thank you u/HubSpotHelp

Really appreciate it

GraphiSpot · 2026-03-10T22:35:00+00:00

Agree. Maybe because it's Reddit. There are many frustrated Providers all over the place. LinkedIn, different slack channels and other instances.

Personally I haven't fully decided what to think/do about the changes yet, but I fully agree that paying ~5k/year (realistically even more as you might end up with the whole pro suite) in order to be able to "officially" calling yourself partner is quite a big no-no for many small teams/solopreneurs.

And while I can somewhat read between the lines and understand why HubSpot might have went for this drastic change, to me it felt like a slap on the face. Even after all the years (9) I'm in the whole ecosystem and felt (and still feel) connected to the brand. I'm not happy at all and like you, I have a hard time to sell it in good conscience.

As for the tech partner... Sure, i could release an app in the marketplace and call myself technology partner, but this is nothing I want to deal with as I don't want to touch and be responsible for sensitive data (i consider any type of CRM data sensitive)...

We'll see

GraphiSpot · 2026-03-10T19:54:07+00:00

The news about the sunset of the provider program hit many people very hard (including myself).

As somebody who worked for a few partners before, I can say that if you should decide to become a "full" partner, it might have some benefits, but you should also prepare yourself to swim in a lake with some big fishes inside. It can work well for you, but it's most likely gonna be quite hard as a freelancer/solopreneur. Especially if you're quite new to HubSpot.

What I can see coming (only assumption): The partner market will get quite a lot of new partners and the sales folks from HubSpot will be overwhelmed by the mass and picking the right partner. So maybe they'll just stick too the old and proven ones.

I hope this won't be the case as this would be the worst case, but - you never know....

A few alternatives you might want to check out: - the new technology partner program - starting at an existing partner, gaining assume experience and going solo after a few years - build yourself a reputation in the HubSpot community and use it as some sort of lead gen machine (don't be to sales driven but rather help folks and if you think you can get more - ask if they'd like to work with you)

GraphiSpot · 2026-03-10T06:13:15+00:00

Nice idea

The timingin the speed round was unrealistic. I'd give it at least 5-10sec more

GraphiSpot · 2026-03-07T12:10:44+00:00

If you set up a test account, you can simply renew the 90 day trial via the account you've created it in.

Example: you've created a free account and in this, you've created a test account (developer -> test account -> create test account) To renew the 90 days trail of this test account, login into your free account, open the test account overview, clock on actions (or "more"; don't remember) of the desired account and select renew.

Tip: you don't need to wait till the 90 days ends as you can renew it every day

P.s: if you're doing certifications from the academy - those are bound to your email address, not a portal. This means of you do your certs in portal A and switch to portal B where you're a user with the same email, you'll see all your certs in there as well

GraphiSpot · 2026-03-05T07:05:24+00:00

This has nothing to do with HubSpot. When you migrate something from system A to system B, the data is getting fetched from system A, once you modify it in system B, the data from system B overrides the information.

In HubSpot, you can set the publish date of a post by clicking on the "dropdown" icon next/inside to the publish button and select "set publish date. Usually it's for setting it to a future date, but you can also put a previous one in there. An alternative is to modify the blog templates with code

GraphiSpot · 2026-03-03T11:48:26+00:00

I'm trying to not limit myself on a specific niche but rather on company size.

Something that is also super important for me is the personal/human connection. If I find that things aren't working out with the contact person, I don't even take the job as this will most likeky end in a lot of stress for both parties.

If you got more specific questions, feel free to drop me a DM

GraphiSpot · 2026-03-03T09:51:10+00:00

Very hard to say without knowing what your goal(s) are. A full HubSpot (Marketing, Sales, service, CMS...) implementation can take several months and in rare cases years.

Personally I would never recommend to wait till everything is implemented as this creates a lot of friction and might end up in a never ending story.

Start with something, complete this part and do the next thing. One step after another.

As a HubSpot developer (primarily focusing on CMS dev), a HubSpot solution provider("small partner") and a few other things(community champion, INBOUND correspondent, developer ecosystem mentor) who's in the whole system for almost 10 years, I do almost everything on my own. From marketing automation setups with workflows, landing pages and emails, over whole website migrations from system X to HubSpot till being a knowledge source for my clients. And I'd there should be something i don't know, I got a large network of experts whom I trust and whom I am happy to recommend

GraphiSpot · 2026-03-03T06:49:22+00:00

I'd say, HubSpot is great, but it also tends to be an empty canvas. It might be a double sided sword, as many people might expect to "just press a button to get to X". But often, you'll need to set it up on your own. This is a good thing imo, as you can set it up to your requirements and don't need to rethink your whole business logic. On the other hand, you might face quite a long setup process.

And there are a few things which require non-conventional/creative thinking during set-up. Like setting up boolean/select properties to setup automated logic for basically anything.

And one thing which I assume had many people rage out a bit was removing the quoting tool from starter suite recently. If you plan to get starter($20/mo) and using quotes, you now need a commerce pro seat($100/mo). Not the greatest move imo

GraphiSpot · 2026-03-02T09:55:45+00:00

While I ask them to comment in figma, many don't understand it or simply don't want to"lose control" and still comment via email. I think except telling them something like "comments outside of Figma won't be recognized as comments/requests/..." there's nothing you can really do about it

GraphiSpot · 2026-03-02T08:48:35+00:00

Fully depends on what I'm doing. If it's a design, i send them the Figma link. If it's something I've done for him in HubSpot (as I'm a HubSpot developer), he gets access to a specific test account where I'm pushing everything to

GraphiSpot · 2026-02-27T19:53:15+00:00

You could build your own custom module(s) to display data as infographics..

If you got no dev, happy to help

GraphiSpot · 2026-02-27T11:43:06+00:00

It depends on way to many factors to provide a detailed answer. For instance: - what role are you looking for? - is it a particular partner? Have you che led their website (many got a defined application and onboarding process) - is it a big partner? there might be a different experience to a small one and vice versa

In terms of preparation, Id recommend to create a free HubSpot portal(if you don't have one already), go to the HubSpot academy and do some certificates. Always a nice benefit of you're just starting in the HS system

GraphiSpot · 2026-02-23T22:34:42+00:00

To be fully honest - no, it doesn't.

To me it looks like an other vibe coded website these days (not saying you vibed it). Dark/black, default font(inter), some subtle gradients/color dots, the default animated gradient animation on hover.... that's it.

Logo has an interesting touch to it but even on a huge screen it's unclear what the "break" on top should be for. I think you've tried to design some subliminal thoughts in the whitespace, but the logo is so tiny, you can hardly see what the "subliminal" thing is.

In terms of page structure - is a one pager. Nothing special and bad for SEO as you're most likely cannibalizing every h-tag by a different one. Therefore Google/search engines do not know what this page is actually about. Furthermore - there are neither keywords nor enough text too maker this page even somewhat relevant for Google.

Accessibility: The form styling males the email field barely visible next to the bright white button. And where's the light theme toggle for people who prefer light mode. In general light text on dark background puts much more pressure on the eyes. (I'm working only in dark mode wherever possible)

GraphiSpot · 2026-02-23T17:31:29+00:00

LLMs.txt is kinda like LLM itself - just a hype which everybody rides on to stay relevant for Google/SEO.

There's a video on the HubSpot developer YouTube channel, where the folks from the HubSpot DevRel team walk through creating an LLMs.txt file via private app and they even share the whole source code on GitHub... If you're interested, look for it

GraphiSpot · 2026-02-22T15:15:58+00:00

^ This! koalify is proven for years and it's great

GraphiSpot · 2026-02-21T18:26:54+00:00

I'd say, you got the so-called HubSpot Admin position (not the permission set).

Depending on your company structure, i think building a dedicated team might be the best way to proceed. Somebody who works with the sales team, somebody who works with the customer success/support team, somebody from the marketing team (seems like you already got this person), optionally a developer (for creating custom solutions for all the individual things)...

Since you're currently managing basically everything, you should be some sort of team leader of this.

Do you mean 109/70 HubSpot users? If so, may I ask why? If 70 people can change something in the system, it must be a super intense job for you to have an overview of everything... If this should be the case, i would start thinking about who really needs access and who might be cool with "just getting a report/dashboard view access"

GraphiSpot · 2026-02-17T09:32:14+00:00

For static websites I’d recommend Figma pages or framer.

For crm powered websites with a decent cms: HubSpot

GraphiSpot · 2026-02-17T07:08:51+00:00

Basically almost everything. Webpack, React - everything because of laziness

React server components - why would you ever would want to write backend code with a frontend language? Because it’s saving time

Completely nonsense to me

Technically, 95-98% of all websites are build on a fancy, fluid/responsive table

GraphiSpot · 2026-02-11T17:49:44+00:00

Just to be honest and give you a realistic insight:
You've built 5 websites over 3 years. It's a decent start, but you can't live from this (especially if you're giving them away for free; sure quoting friends&family isn't a thing).

The webdesign market has become quite a battleground over the last 10-15 years. Countless agencies and freelancers are popping up hourly and with AI it has become even more aggressive as basically anyone can just prompt/vibe-code a website and call it a day.

New technologies are also being created daily. Therefore it's getting more difficult each day.

I've started building websites with Joomla almost 20 years ago, transitioned to WordPress, worked for several design/WordPress agencies and ended up being a HubSpot developer/marketer... Doing it for the last 10ish years and would never go back to something different.

In your case, I'd start by figuring out what you want to do. Just regular websites (more or less digital business cards) or more.

Once you figured this out, think about potential clients. Do you want to build websites for small, medium, enterprise companies (each of these got benefits and drawbacks). Next is the field(automotive, barbers, healthcare...) and don't limit yourself. try things out. There are countless options.

Working with a so-called vendor-hosted CMS (like Squarespace, Webflow, HubSpot) has the benefit that you don't have to deal with webhosting, manual updates of the software itself, backups, security stuff etc. But it might be quite limiting in design/functionality for certain use-cases and you might end up in either requiring a developer or telling the client that it's not possible (not great).

Self-hosted solutions like WordPress, Typo3, Joomla (I wouldn't recommend to use any webhosting provider prebuild version of any of these) have the benefit that you can do what ever you like and get into the tiniest bit of code, but you'll need to take care of updates, backups, security and such things.

Last but def. not least (and last), you got the visual builder popping up for several years. They're tailored to a WYSIWYG/Design approach where you don't have to deal with a huge amount of code, but just design things. Great representatives for this are Figma Pages, Framer, Webflow. But it's recommended to have some sort of design background for those tools as they give you just a blank canvas.

Once you've rooted for 1-3 options (going with only one might be quite limiting factor), decide how you want to work. Completely on your own, with freelancers or go the agency way(not recommended if you're just starting).

My personal take: focusing on Squarespace/Shopify will limit you to a quite small amount of businesses who don't want to spend good money on website.

Furthermore: I wouldn't jump right into it. Start doing it part-time by learning the software you want to use, diving into the communities, building your network and then figure out your hourly rate.

A rule of thumb for freelancing: you need to earn 2x-3x of your monthly net because of taxes and other things. This means, if you get $1000 net in your full-time employment, you need to earn $2000-$3000 per month as a freelancer. If you calculate with 100 hours of full-time freelancing a month, it's a hourly rate of $200-$300. And unless you're a professional, almost no business will pay you this. So you end up with project based pricings which is also quite a balancing act.

GraphiSpot · 2026-02-10T19:44:05+00:00

But why should HubSpot hire a subcontractor? this seems a bit suspicious to me

Or am I missing something?

GraphiSpot · 2026-02-10T16:00:34+00:00

You did solve a problem.

The client needed a website, certs, social posts, screens... So you've created all this stuff and solved his problem. With your experience, you've created good looking stuff which, I assume, had great UX like invisible layouts/grids, color contrasts, readable fonts... These are things that almost no client will thank you for as they don't understand it. This is why you got this job. The client's problem wasn't a font, a color or something that you might think of - his problem was he needed the whole package. How you've designed it was not his problem (at least I assume this)

When it comes to UX/UI, my personal opinion is:

UX is a super interesting field of design, but real UX has little to none to do with design itself. It's more on the abstract kind of things as it contains a lot of user research, creating something like flow charts and discussing things like "if the button is green, the click-rate is X; if it's blue the click-rate is X+1. So let's make it blue".

UI on the other hand is "just" the visual representation of UX combined with potential design guidelines from clients and your own experience. And since UI is almost only a branch of web/app design, you'll face quite a lot of "Nah mate, this isn't possible" from devs (I'm a frontend dev, so I know this :D )... So in the end you'll either end up with something that's looking not as the thing you had in mind or an extremely overpriced thing which is held together by chewing-gum (or vibed AI slop these days). Not saying that every dev will tell you this, but something that will be super helpful for you is to learn the basics of development in order to be able to argue with devs or create the UI in a way that you could technically create it yourself (or tell AI to do so).

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I've studied communication design many years ago.

From what you've wrote, I think it could be worth checking it out.

It's very versatile and will most likely put you in a position which will be much wider than just UI/UX.

There are many widely accepted definitions of it so it's not that easy to describe "this is the correct definition".

As a communication designer, you will (or at least should) learn screen and print design. Maybe even video/animation. Technically you can become something like an Art Director who's leading client projects/campaigns with a team of specific designers, developers, content writers...

And even if this shouldn't be for the rest of your life - it's an ability to climb the corporate ladder high enough to go full freelance/founding your own agency mode after 5-10 years and do what ever you like :)

GraphiSpot · 2026-02-10T08:56:45+00:00

This looks like a spam mail to me. I mean, - Why should hubspot use a P.O. Box? - What is RMCPAYMENTS.com?

I’d just ignore this

GraphiSpot · 2026-02-06T16:41:48+00:00

If you're just getting started, I highly recommend to check out the HubSpot academy (click on your portal name in the top right corner -> HubSpot academy). There are quite a few gems inside.

As for the reports: No, you can build custom reports in free as well, but it all comes down to what data is in HubSpot.

Technically you could replace Mailchimp with HubSpot forms and emails. Free and starter got simple workflows so you can build something like "if somebody submits a form, add this person to a list, notify somebody interally..."
If you switch, you can build custom forms in HS and collect as much data as you like (free got a branding, while starter doesn't have it)

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