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You can so easily vibe code a landing page that these days still having a bad landing page suggests you really don’t care about the details, and that’s a bad si

You can so easily vibe code a landing page that these days still having a bad landing page suggests you really don’t care about the details, and that’s a bad sign. It’s a brochure website.

GaryBluto 11mo ago
Who decides what a "bad" landing page is? I'd argue many older and more simplistic landing pages look way better than their current equivalents.
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JoshTriplett 11mo ago
> You can so easily vibe code a landing page that these days still having a bad landing page suggests you really don’t care about the details, and that’s a bad sign. "Looks like a wiki or a professors web page" is not "bad landing page", it's "aesthetic that is not the mainstream aesthetic". We're not talking about "things don't line up", we're talking about functional. And frankly, if I see that someone pointedly doesn't vibe-code their landing page, that's a good sign that they're not phoning in the rest of the work, too.
II2II 11mo ago
> having a bad landing page suggests you really don’t care about the details, and that’s a bad sign. That depends upon your definition of a good landing page. Personally, I will pay more attention to a Linux distribution if the landing page has information that is valuable to the community. If it looks like they are trying to sell something, I will just move on. In a way, I treat caring about the details as a bad sign (though I realize that I am just prioritizing a different set of details).
swatcoder 11mo ago
"At least vibe code it, so people know you care about detail" Do you see the irony there? If something is a cheap template or just vibe-coded slop, it denotes precisely that someone doesn't care about detail. It's exactly for those style-over-substance people that these tools exist! That's not to say that a dated, perfunctory, or poor attempt might not suggest a lack of interest in detail itself, or at least a lack of personal insignt for user experience. It could, but vibe coding delivers no cheat around that. It just writes it in big bold letters.
- hombre_fatal 11mo ago
  It probably depends on what we have in our head as a bad landing page, here. Two things that come to mind are: hard to use on a small device, and maybe no good quickstart info (like a bad readme). The point of polishing these details isn't to indicate how much you labored away at the details but rather that the utility to the end-user was important enough to you to lift your finger. Whether you spend 10 hours making it mobile friendly, contract it out to someone, or ask an LLM to do it isn't the important part.

You can so easily vibe code a landing page that these days still having a bad landing page suggests you really don’t care about the details, and that’s a bad sign. It’s a brochure website.

GaryBluto 11mo ago

Who decides what a "bad" landing page is? I'd argue many older and more simplistic landing pages look way better than their current equivalents.

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JoshTriplett 11mo ago

> You can so easily vibe code a landing page that these days still having a bad landing page suggests you really don’t care about the details, and that’s a bad sign. "Looks like a wiki or a professors web page" is not "bad landing page", it's "aesthetic that is not the mainstream aesthetic". We're not talking about "things don't line up", we're talking about functional. And frankly, if I see that someone pointedly doesn't vibe-code their landing page, that's a good sign that they're not phoning in the rest of the work, too.

II2II 11mo ago

> having a bad landing page suggests you really don’t care about the details, and that’s a bad sign. That depends upon your definition of a good landing page. Personally, I will pay more attention to a Linux distribution if the landing page has information that is valuable to the community. If it looks like they are trying to sell something, I will just move on. In a way, I treat caring about the details as a bad sign (though I realize that I am just prioritizing a different set of details).

swatcoder 11mo ago

"At least vibe code it, so people know you care about detail" Do you see the irony there? If something is a cheap template or just vibe-coded slop, it denotes precisely that someone doesn't care about detail. It's exactly for those style-over-substance people that these tools exist! That's not to say that a dated, perfunctory, or poor attempt might not suggest a lack of interest in detail itself, or at least a lack of personal insignt for user experience. It could, but vibe coding delivers no cheat around that. It just writes it in big bold letters.

hombre_fatal 11mo ago
It probably depends on what we have in our head as a bad landing page, here. Two things that come to mind are: hard to use on a small device, and maybe no good quickstart info (like a bad readme). The point of polishing these details isn't to indicate how much you labored away at the details but rather that the utility to the end-user was important enough to you to lift your finger. Whether you spend 10 hours making it mobile friendly, contract it out to someone, or ask an LLM to do it isn't the important part.