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Every vibe-coded website is the same page with different words. So I made that
- aaronSong 1y agopage looks like vibe-coded. is it?
- Darmani 1y agoAuthor here. It is. Almost one-shotted, in fact. In follow up, I just asked it to add the byline and to add more gradients. 85% the same as the initial one-shot. I gave it dagusa.com as a reference, which helped a lot, but also gave it a bit of a Bootstrap feel.
- cube00 1y agoI was wondering why there were so many gradients in the CSS, ask and LLMs certainly deliver. /s
- _pdp_ 1y agoYou forgot to include some vulnerabilities. It just doesn't feel complete to me. Jokes aside, I'm not mentioning who, but right on the front page of a popular vibe coding platform you can see a bunch of promoted real-world projects and almost all of them have some gaping security hole - and I'm not referring to the click-jacking kind.
- Darmani 1y agoOkay, added. https://vibe-coded.lol/#security https://vibe-coded.lol/#security
- x______________ 1y agoWhy is my password the same across different browsers? Don't you know that I rotate my passwords you insensitive clod? /s (Would it be too much to have a randomized password generated for each session/cookie?) Also, kudos to you on the (realisticly accurate) advertising consent form!
- Darmani 1y agoClaude made it. The prompt was Referencing https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45624294 , add a joke cookie banner. And that was it. Still happy to take credit.
- reactordev 1y agoYou got me with Reject All (sell my soul anyway)
- mirekrusin 1y agoReal AI integration would update this website live from HN comments.
- Darmani 1y agoI had been thinking about things along those lines. I might do that as a separate site. Perhaps with regular resets, and with something to keep 4chan out.
- mirekrusin 1y agoGuardrails are for luddites, the power to the people!
- djmips 1y agoFTFY - you insensitive claude
- mirekrusin 1y agoI think it shows me my old password, where do I update it?
- nlh 1y agoIt's funny and this timing is perfect - just today two (mostly non-technical) friends, unprompted, sent me two different "projects" they just launched. Both have the same identical and unmistakable AI design with pills and tags and highlights and icons and all that. Both are bland, don't really offer anything deeply novel, but are unmistakably real and perhaps even usable. On the one hand - I'm actually psyched that mostly nontechnical people have successfully launched their ideas into the world. This would have eaten up time and at least several $thousand previously. On the other hand, they are both super blah projects. Date I say it: The AI Slop Web App era has arrived in full force.
- moron4hire 1y agoIt's like how people who say they want to write a book spend all their time on the cover and the page and chapter heading layout before they put any effort into the manuscript.
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- lispisok 1y agoThese alleged vibe coded websites look identical to all the tech startup websites of the 2010s. Hmm I wonder where the LLM got the idea to make all websites look this way.
- edot 1y agoIs the issue that all vibe-coded sites look the same, or that everyone uses the same Bootstrap or Material components? This site does indeed look like every other vibe-coded site, but so does any site using the same component libraries.
- cube00 1y agoThese are the style of sites LLMs create when you ask not to use any component libraries. For some reason they gravitate to this style (and chern out reams of slop CSS to get there). They really don't like the current trend of large hero graphics across the page so, as others have said, it feels like they're stuck in the last decade. On the plus site, maybe websites will get faster when they're not weighted down with megabytes of component and JS libraries.
- orbital-decay 1y agoThe reason is called mode collapse.
- snjy7 1y agoNot enough purple gradients
- Darmani 1y agoI shared your feedback with Claude and it updated the website for you.
- rustystump 1y agoThis is missing shadcn ui lib for it to truly be the vibe coded slop we see these days.
- Darmani 1y agoStatic webpage and not React, but Claude offered to add more of a shadcn aesthetic.
- MassiveQuasar 1y agoI tried sending you and email but even your email address is vibe code :(
- guestbest 1y agoAre LLM’s capable of time travel because it looks it also created all these cookie cutter websites in 2013
- m463 1y agoYour comment makes me wonder. Probably lots of 2013 websites in the training data. Also makes me wonder... will self-driving car training data be less and less based on human driving, and more based on how all the other self-driving cars behave?
- neom 1y agomodel to model is a pretty normal training method right now, but can result in this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_collapse https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_collapse
- marcosdumay 1y agoThe only self-driving car out there imitating humans is the Tesla one... and you can check how well it's doing. Cars have a clear goal that one can test for.
- BobbyTables2 1y agoOr will they randomly drive 10mph under the speed limit, with the turn signal left pm for 10 miles, because an email was received?
- platevoltage 1y agoIt reminded me of every web dev who was too lazy to design their own portfolio page and just used the same template every other person.
- ValveFan6969 1y agoPrecisely. I don't know why the creator of this site is trashing LLMs and not the generic slop the LLMs were trained on to begin with.
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- collingreen 1y agoBetter mobile support than lots of real web pages though...
- srcreigh 1y agoI vibe coded the site for pxehost - https://pxehost.com https://pxehost.com The text content is largely hand written but the style/structures/etc are vibes. Codex CLI on the $20 plus plan The first shot was remarkably similar to the end result, but there was lots of tweaking and testing.
- linkregister 1y agoThat looks great for presumably a couple of hours of work, and it showcases pxehost pretty well.
- candiddevmike 1y agoYou really bury the lede that this software runs a DHCP server. Folks could really mess up their network running it on their local machine, you should add a warning somewhere. How does it determine the default gateway or DNS to advertise?
- srcreigh 1y agoIt’s not a DHCP server the way you’re thinking. Pxehost only replies with a couple fields for PXE boot, and only to clients that are declaring themselves as PXE boot client. It doesn’t interfere with the normal dhcp server - the PXE client will get 2 broadcast replies, one from pxehost and one from the dhcp server, and will combine the info
- candiddevmike 1y agoEven with something like proxy DHCP, you shouldn't have easy to follow instructions for folks to fire up a DHCP server without a warning, IMO. It's just polite to your fellow network admins.
- Spivak 1y agoIf you know anything about PXE booting then you'll know it needs DHCP. I think it's fine, it's a pretty niche technology. You aren't likely to to find someone downloading it who doesn't know what they're setting up.
- tptacek 1y agoWhy should making a static brochure website involve coding skill?
- chairmansteve 1y agoI agree. But AI is not needed either. I have used Weebly in the past, just type in the text, choose pictures and you're done.
- tptacek 1y agoWhy should people need to understand the markup and JS for a generated static brochure page? That's the premise of this page. I do, for my pages. But when I write a Word document, I have absolutely no fucking clue what any of the underlying formatting code means. I feel like people forget that for ordinary desktop publishing, HTML/JS is a gigantic step backwards. Getting us back to the status quo of the 1990s, whether it's LLMs or Weebly, would be a very good thing.
- platevoltage 1y agoDon't we have Wix and Squarespace for that just like we had Dreamweaver in the 1990's?
- BoredPositron 1y agoAnd nobody besides people working at these companies will be sad to see it go.
- tptacek 1y agoLike, I genuinely believe that if we had the developer culture 1991 that we do now in 2025, people would be saying the same thing about Word. Hell, people absolutely do say that about Word. It's just gatekeeping.
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- tortilla 1y agoGuilty. I vibe coded a non-serious website for my vibe coded OSS project. But I had fun. :) https://pluqqy.com https://pluqqy.com
- conception 1y agoNot enough tailwind. 6/10.
- Darmani 1y agoOkay, I added Tailwind. https://vibe-coded.lol/#tailwind https://vibe-coded.lol/#tailwind
- all2 1y agoAlready fixed.
- incompatible 1y agoI was looking at the site and it already has a whole section linking to this comment, from 18 minutes ago, Impressive!: Wait, Not Enough Tailwind? Someone said "Not enough tailwind. 6/10." So here's a literal tail in the wind. [picture of cat, no tail visible, with alt text "Dog with tail blowing in wind"] This is as close to Tailwind CSS as we're getting on a pure HTML site. But hey, we added rounded corners and shadows, so basically the same thing.
- m463 1y agoBut nobody code reviewed the changes!
- incompatible 1y agoThey'd have only found a few minor quibbles, why bother.
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- adamthegoalie 1y agoI think my vibe coded website is for real good! MIDAO.org
- 65 1y agoThe prompt should have included "Make it look like Vercel"
- nicksergeant 1y agoI run a design agency and I've invested a lot of time and energy into a general design prompt that puts out some decently unique looking sites. We offer this as our "Mini" package at a very affordable price ($99/mo, no setup fee) for clients who don't want (or need) a fully custom design. I'm not sure you can call this "vibe coding" as much as "vibe engineering" because the resulting code closely models the heavily customized components and styling patterns of our other 60+ custom websites, but the following website designs were very heavily "vibe-derived", from a design sense: - https://thedalaijavacdga.com/ https://thedalaijavacdga.com/ - https://crossroadsflx.com/ https://crossroadsflx.com/ - https://privateertattoolounge.com/ https://privateertattoolounge.com/
- tortilla 1y agoThey look good to me. Most importantly, the information is clear and easy to understand.
- nicksergeant 1y agoThanks for the kind words! We really do try to create nice looking, functional, and accessible websites for our clients.
- croisillon 1y agoi hate when a midsize restaurant doesn't even have a website, let alone so many don't have uptodate menu... and i understand, when simple websites are priced >5k upfront, that those restaurants don't do it ; vibe-derived could hopefully be a fair-priced solution
- nicksergeant 1y agoYep! I built the whole business around slightly higher monthly fees with no (or much lower than typical firms) setup fees. It makes a lot more sense for smaller locally owned businesses.
- deaux 1y agoThis is a pretty appealing offer - are you only open to local offline businesses?
- shawkinaw 1y agoI do love the random stream of pics at the end.
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- bongodongobob 1y agoMan you would have hated the 90s when websites were text and hyperlinks. They all looked the same!
- Darmani 1y agoI loved the 90s. Evenings alternating between playing flash games on nick.com and waiting for the page to load. Some people tried showing me a website called Google. It sounded like it should be a fun game, but it was really boring. Terrible graphics.
- platevoltage 1y agohttps://www.spacejam.com/1996/jam.html https://www.spacejam.com/1996/jam.html
- madrox 1y agoThe whole thrust of anti-vibe UI sentiments remind me of when Twitter Bootstrap came out. The unlocks were huge because suddenly people who didn't know how to make nice looking UI didn't have to do much more than drop in a stylesheet link and add some classes. Despite that, everyone complained all web sites started looking the same. And, sure, that was valid. However, eventually everyone started figuring out how to get a unique look out of Bootstrap while still enjoying the benefits. All our modern frontend component frameworks can trace their lineage back to Bootstrap. We'll see something similar with vibe UIs. Just a matter of time.
- PetahNZ 1y agojQuery UI?
- nextworddev 1y agoEven before vibe coding, most modern sites were doing the same tailwind aesthetic.
- Darmani 1y agoYou can DM me: twitter.com/jimmykoppel Or just search around; my contact info is very easy to find.
- SeanAnderson 1y agoSomeone didn't live through peak Bootstrap and it shows. :p What's old is new again. (also I think you can get far more variety from LLM-designed website with just a tiny bit of inspiration in your prompts)
- brailsafe 1y ago"Bootstrap me a website with Tailwind, but make it look like bootstrap actually"
- hshdhdhehd 1y ago"Knockout a React site."
- Grimblewald 1y agoIf you're creative, you're motivated, if you're motivated you'll describe precisely what you want, if you'll take the time to describe precisely what you want, the most efficient way to do it is to describe it using code, if you've described it using code, you've got what you want. it's honestly be best hack for using llms, just write precisely what you want in the language you want it in, and the response is instant and perfect every time.
- SeanAnderson 1y agoWhy not keep going and write the assembly to truly get the performance you could eek out! Who needs increased efficiency through layers of abstraction :p
- Esophagus4 1y agoI assume your project directory also looks like this if you used Claude… index.html index-working.html index-revised.html index-revised-2.html debug-site-on-mobile-issue.sh index-backup-2.html DEBUGGING-RESULTS.md CLAUDE.md INSTALLATION-INSTRUCTIONS.md
- Darmani 1y agoYou're absolutely right. https://vibe-coded.lol/#project-structure https://vibe-coded.lol/#project-structure
- stuaxo 1y agoThe empty css folder is [chefs kiss]
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- platevoltage 1y agoI just KNEW it would be purple. This was funny. will share with others.
- pavelstoev 1y agoI've vibe-coded a website about vibe coding websites. I used GPT-5 and it inserted an easter egg that was found by a human front-end dev, to my amusement. Easter eggs must be in-distribution! (No I am not sharing the link as I was downvoted for it before - search for it. Hint: built with vibe)
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- deadbabe 1y agoWhere’s the cookie banner
- Darmani 1y agoRefresh the page.
- DharmaPolice 1y agoI got a pop up about selling my soul, I assume that was cookie related?
- theturtlemoves 1y agoIt showed up when I was halfway down the page. Worth it, made me chuckle
- jasonthorsness 1y agoThe LLM does seem to default to a certain style. I made an “improvisational web server” that plans and generates a site based on a path, but after hosting it and looking at a few hundred generated sites, they all kind of look the same. Which I guess is expected? But it will be interesting to see if human designers take pains to differentiate. https://github.com/jasonthorsness/ginprov https://github.com/jasonthorsness/ginprov https://ginprov.com https://ginprov.com
- PebblesHD 1y agoI had a play with this and you’re right, it does have a style, but first: this is awesome, and good fun, well done! I think the system prompt or training data probably focuses on marketing websites, it didnt manage to make a settings page or a canvas game, but did make a site telling me how to make a canvas game :) How does it interpolate the path to make the prompt? (Havent checked the code yet…)
- jasonthorsness 1y agoThanks! This is my favorite someone made: https://ginprov.com/a-dating-site-for-gnomes/ https://ginprov.com/a-dating-site-for-gnomes/ Interpolation happens in two steps. First, there's a prompt for an outline (below). Then, a prompt with the same construction rules but says like "given the outline..." and puts the outline into the context. You are a professional web designer. Create a concise outline in markdown format of a site for the topic "{{slug}}". Construction rules: - Do **not** reference any external resources (fonts, CDNs, embeds, etc.). - No JavaScript or SVG. - All images must be JPG. - All <img> tags must have a width and height. - In CSS any image use must include object-fit: cover. - All links must be relative to the root and be a long, descriptive slug of the content (like company-owner-with-hat.jpg or goat-facts-continued.html). - The site must display well on both desktop and mobile devices. - Never use position: sticky; The outline should include the following sections: - **Site Name And Paragraph Summary** - a short description of the site and its purpose - **Style guide** – typography (built-in font classes only), spacing, imagery tone, theme - **Color scheme** – primary, secondary, accent, neutrals (name + hex) - **Layout** – grid/flex description, breakpoints, reusable components - **Site map** – unordered list of important pages with slug filenames - **Key features** – bullet list - **Reusable CSS/HTML snippet** – fenced code blocks showing the skeleton for nav, hero, article, and footer Write clearly enough that different teammates could each build a page and the finished site will remain cohesive and on-brand.Make sure you capture the essence of the topic in the design, be creative! https://github.com/jasonthorsness/ginprov/blob/main/server/prompter.go#L39 https://github.com/jasonthorsness/ginprov/blob/main/server/p...
- rocauc 1y agoNot nearly enough gradient for a vibe coded site :)
- vikboyechko 1y agoA lot of houses also look the same, but different people live in them. Makes you appreciate the designs that are truly unique, or contemporary, or classic, but most people would rather have any house versus none at all. So to me if a person vibe codes a web site that they otherwise don’t have the time or money to create and the website serves a purpose or brings joy, then cool.
- itsme0000 1y agoWhy are we supposed appreciate unique web design? The best designed sites I use are those cookie-cutter illegal sports steaming sites because their design is so similar I can navigate them all the same way.
- tavavex 1y agoThe example you gave is the exception, not the rule. Sharing UX among these streaming sites is expected because they're completely replaceable, and you expect to churn through them as they shut down and pop up again somewhere else. Why would any of them want to change anything up if it might disappear in a week? People like unique designs because those designs (ideally) exist to cater to the ever-so-slightly different needs, different things that different websites are meant to convey or do. It's not just about being pretty or looking not like everyone else, though some users and designers can mistake it for that. Even something like video streaming can have lots of variations because there's so many different types of video content to serve. Optimizing for these needs will require making design choices, which will eventually compound in a unique UX. I enjoy websites that are fine-tuned for serving their purpose, and that manage to do so in a simple and performant way. Generic boilerplate designs can work fine on most 'average' websites, but going further requires putting more thought into it.
- itsme0000 1y agoIronic how long and empty this argument is, kinda proves my point. Who cares? I want an average website not a weird one.
- periodjet 1y agoThere’s a streak of meanness in this which is very unappealing. Aha, a todsacerdoti post. The rule continues to hold!
- tavavex 1y agoThe website doesn't seem to be created by the same person who submitted the post. The creator is making updates and replying to people about them in this thread.
- Biganon 1y agoIt's appealing to me. It's time we started mocking mediocrity again. Because it's absolutely everywhere and we don't seem to care anymore.
- itsme0000 1y agoI mean the joke should be that this actually the best website design because this is basically where response design peaked. Convince me a human can actually do better than this. It’s unclear what more is actually required from a website other than this. They point out things like not understanding authentication is bad, but at least the AI won’t develop a fundamentally incorrect idea about it like a human would. Nobody ever got fired for checking ChatGPT for something that they didn’t know, but plenty of people without it have just made mistakes carefully read documentation and misinterpreting it.
- podgietaru 1y agoWhat? This style of site uses 1/3 of the page to display 3 icons. It was definitely a trend, but sites used to contain better information density prior to this marketing style trash site.
- itsme0000 1y agoYes one page with 3 buttons the buttons should be 1/3 the size of the page seems obvious literally an advanced computer algorithm determined this, but seems extremely obvious to me.
- zer00eyz 1y agoI mean... Vibe coding is just the next dreamweaver.... I would rather have the web be somewhat boring than go back to geocities and myspace style atrocities.
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- strogonoff 1y agoNo proper parody of an LLM-autocompleted website is complete without a bunch if broken or misdirected links.
- hshdhdhehd 1y agoAbout us: Some blurb about how we are passionate a about startups, love our customers etc. No business name, human names or contact info though.
- Darmani 1y agohttps://vibe-coded.lol/#about https://vibe-coded.lol/#about It was actually always there; you just missed it. Claude is so smart that it both predicted this comment and linked to it before you made it.
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- Darmani 1y agoYou're absolutely right. https://vibe-coded.lol/#broken-links https://vibe-coded.lol/#broken-links
- tithos 1y agoWe can thank Bootsprap and Tailwind for that
- maufl 1y agoThe hunter2 joke makes me miss bash.org again
- port3000 1y agoThis is the most passive aggressive website I've ever seen
- onehair 1y agoAt the very least it's normal HTML in the browser and not some jumbled bundled minified mess :/
- qustrolabe 1y agoSurvivorship bias at its best
- andrewstuart 1y agoYou seem angry.
- hamdouni 1y agoThat one in the GDPR pop-up makes me laugh : By clicking "Accept All" you agree to let us sell your data. By clicking "Reject All" you agree to let us sell your data anyway.
- yarn_ 1y agoIts ok but i'd be more convinced if instead of real icons it had hallucinated+bespoke SVGs that made me uncomfortable to look at for reasons I can't discern and don't quite look like anything in particular
- justsomehnguy 1y ago"Navigation" is so fast what I discovered what this is a single page web-site only after a minute or two.
- johnnyanmac 1y agoThis website uses cookies, localStorage, sessionStorage, IndexedDB, WebSQL, browser fingerprinting, canvas fingerprinting, and probably your mom's maiden name to track literally everything you do. We share this data with 847 trusted partners including but not limited to: advertisers, data brokers, that sketchy startup in the Caymans, and anyone willing to pay $0.003 per record. By clicking "Accept All" you agree to let us sell your data. By clicking "Reject All" you agree to let us sell your data anyway. By clicking "Customize" you get to pretend you have a choice while we still sell your data. Someone asked where the cookie banner was. Here you go. Perfect
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