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Website looks nice. The copy being so painfully AI-written is a turnoff, enough that my first thought was "oh yeah, I remember hearing about this kind of app, I

Website looks nice. The copy being so painfully AI-written is a turnoff, enough that my first thought was "oh yeah, I remember hearing about this kind of app, I should look at the other one I'm thinking of". I do like that it's local and free. Imported some contacts, doing quick setup, first contact, can't scroll down to confirm/finish setting them up. I'm on the SE, which is a slightly smaller screen, sometimes apps seem to have trouble with it, I assume they're assuming a larger screen.

nullbyte808 7mo ago
How do you know its AI? Who cares, sounds fine too me.
- deleted 7mo ago
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- worthless-trash 7mo ago
  We do mate, we do.
- apsurd 7mo ago
  AI tends to be a buzz kill on products because it sends the signal "i can't be bothered to craft this deliberately." So why then should we bother to interact with the product deliberately. Around here most know how hard and time consuming it is to ship a production grade experience. AI helps a ton. it's not "wrong" per say, but it undeniably leaves an odor.
  - Muhammad523 7mo ago
    Btw, this project seems to be a solution looking for a problem.
- dreadnip 7mo ago
  The whole website was prompted. You can tell by the overload of emoji's on the page and every section having cards with hover effects. It's classic LLM design.
  - mahirhiro 7mo ago
    Funnily enough, while I definitely prompted but finding other website designs I liked and color schemes. I specifically wanted the hover effects because I love quirky animations. On the garden in the app try holding on a flower/ seed or click on a butterfly and enjoy the Easter egg ;)
- dolebirchwood 7mo ago
  The avatars in the "testimonials" are all fakes by pravatar.cc, so take that into consideration. The site is bull shit.
  - dolebirchwood 7mo ago
    I revisited the site and noticed that the testimonials section is now deleted. What a punk. Please do not engage with this fraudulent clown-show of an app.
    - mahirhiro 7mo ago
      Yep, that was actually a placeholder (eventually with real people, and now soon with 500 downloads!) I didn’t comment out properly hence what someone else pointed out with the html commenting. Mistakes happen and I agree I should do a better job to proof read :)
      - Muhammad523 7mo ago
        I truly don't think it's possible for new software to have testimonials... especially good ones.
    - Muhammad523 7mo ago
      Deleted? Well, the Wayback Machine comes to rescue. https://web.archive.org/web/20260305052854/https://poppy-connection-keeper.netlify.app/ https://web.archive.org/web/20260305052854/https://poppy-con...
- biofox 7mo ago
  "Privacy isn't a feature — it's the foundation." "No feed, no doomscrolling — just intention." "Not your whole address book — just the ones you'd hate to lose touch with" "You care deeply—you're just terrible at follow-through." "You care deeply—your ADHD brain just doesn't..."
  - rigrassm 7mo ago
    "You care deeply—your ADHD brain just doesn't..." Well shit, that solves everything! What a revelation -_-
  - gumboshoes 7mo ago
    Even the word "intentional" alone is an AI tell.
    - accrual 7mo ago
      "Quietly" is another watermark word I've noticed lately (though not in TFA to be clear).
- lelanthran 7mo ago
  Well, if someone can't bother to write something, why should anyone bother to read it?
  - red-iron-pine 7mo ago
    that was one of the big reasons I dropped FB and Insta. Low effort interactions just aren't worth it. IF it's not worth writing at least 3 sentences chances are I don't care - and won't ever care. Like yeah it's cool to see what some guy I knew in high school is up to, but ultimately that connection ain't making my life better. HN is an exception in the signal to noise ratio is far higher than a lot of other social media - though the bots are hitting it hard these days.
  - goodmythical 7mo ago
    That's awfully able-ist isn't it? How do you know that the author is capable of communicating fluently in english? What if it were the case the the author was so excited about sharing a project but didn't know how to properly explained it and so took the extra effort to learn how to get a piece of software to explain it for them? Would that then satisfy your requirement that the human behind the project has done enough work to earn your interest?
    - BobaFloutist 7mo ago
      But AI provides the illusion of communication. Since the AI has no direct access to the user's brain, and has to go off the words they provide, if we're assuming that the person isn't capable generating words that accurately communicate their thoughts, the AI is getting all its information from the same flawed words we'd have access to if they didn't use AI, but destroying any signal encoded in the specific mistakes or choices they've made in its process of shaping their thoughts into something more polished. AIs don't violate entropy, and can't create information from nothing. They can interpret, and expand, and maybe, just maybe, tease out meaning that a human would have missed. But the more sensitively they're tuned to pick up on small nuances, they more likely they're going to interpret a pattern that isn't there, and the more they're tuned to avoid over-interpretation, the more likely they are to miss something that is there, the same as how a human can aim to interpret something with high or low context. The difference is, by filtering it through an AI, you're taking that capability out of other people's hands, you're (often intentionally) flattening and damaging signals people usually use to choose how to distribute their attention (often with the cry of "But it's not fair that people want to spend their attention on things that I'm not good at, I have to use AI to convince people to look at my work that they would prefer not to!!"), and when you do that without acknowledging the use of AI, it feels a lot like you don't care about any negative effects your actions have on the existing ecosystems of human creativity and communication, and you're going to get an appropriately hostile response.
bko 7mo ago
Writing copy is painfully time consuming. AI just does it better, it's meant to communicate and people are not always great communicators. I know it'll write better copy than me. Terminally online people need to get over this weird aversion to anything generated w/ help of AI. Do you have similar misgivings, like "this guy obviously used auto correct", or "he's using speech to text, I'm not reading anything unless its hand-written" Get over it. It's here, it's useful, judge the product on its merits. I get if you see spam email messages that are overly tailored and ignoring them because the person obv didn't do the work. But this dude created a free app that looks pretty cool, maybe he didn't want to spend another few hours to create a pretty standard boilerplate website with app information.
- loloquwowndueo 7mo ago
  > AI just does it better, it's meant to communicate and people are not always great communicators. Sorry, no. It doesn’t do it better. It’s like chewing cardboard. All fluff, not a lot of actual well-presented information. AI is also not a great communicator- it learned from people, which you said are not great.
- endymion-light 7mo ago
  THere's a level of AI generated copy that makes the website look unpolished. I think it's right to critique, in the same way i'd critique an obvious bootstrap css website. There's loads of factors that may implicitly turn someone off using an app, and I think it's important to let the OP know a critical one.
- BoxFour 7mo ago
  I'll bite: Copy can signal that a real person spent time on the details and cared about the product. Auto-correct and speech-to-text still carry that idea. Even boring corporate PR language communicates something. It says the company wants to project stability and predictability, which can be reassuring. Slightly awkward, unpolished copy also sends a signal. It suggests a person speaking directly off-the-cuff rather than polished corporate messaging, which some people prefer. LLM-generated copy sends a signal too, and not always a good one. To me, it often suggests the author didn’t care enough to think carefully about the message - not even enough to edit something that came out of an LLM. At that point it starts to feel like someone just prompted Claude to build a reminders app with no care or thought put into it, which I could do myself if I find this idea valuable at all and even personalize the hell out of it. Maybe that's an unfair first impression! But it's not a crazy one given how quickly the cost of code is approaching 0.
SunshineTheCat 7mo ago
It feels like 90% of HN has become arguing about whether something was made by AI. I'm just counting down the days until no one can actually tell how much AI was involved so we can get to discussing whether the thing is good or not.
- goodmythical 7mo ago
  There's way way way more human slop complaining about AI than there is AI in the first place. It would be so much nicer if people didn't feel compelled to add the 32nd iteration of whining about the methodology used to produce the content. I'd say I can't wait until the fad passes, but it's always something, isn't it? I guess because anger/irritation/outrage are such popular sentiments people tend to resort to that kind of content because it makes them feel good to participate in trends. There's always going to be the group of people who seek popularity by aping whatever the latest fad is.
mahirhiro 7mo ago
Thank you for the feedback and trying the app! I’ll be working on fixing this :). Unfortunately I didn’t bother tested with the SE, only the 11 onwards, lesson learned.

nullbyte808 7mo ago

How do you know its AI? Who cares, sounds fine too me.

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worthless-trash 7mo ago
We do mate, we do.
apsurd 7mo ago
AI tends to be a buzz kill on products because it sends the signal "i can't be bothered to craft this deliberately." So why then should we bother to interact with the product deliberately. Around here most know how hard and time consuming it is to ship a production grade experience. AI helps a ton. it's not "wrong" per say, but it undeniably leaves an odor.
- Muhammad523 7mo ago
  Btw, this project seems to be a solution looking for a problem.
dreadnip 7mo ago
The whole website was prompted. You can tell by the overload of emoji's on the page and every section having cards with hover effects. It's classic LLM design.
- mahirhiro 7mo ago
  Funnily enough, while I definitely prompted but finding other website designs I liked and color schemes. I specifically wanted the hover effects because I love quirky animations. On the garden in the app try holding on a flower/ seed or click on a butterfly and enjoy the Easter egg ;)
dolebirchwood 7mo ago
The avatars in the "testimonials" are all fakes by pravatar.cc, so take that into consideration. The site is bull shit.
- dolebirchwood 7mo ago
  I revisited the site and noticed that the testimonials section is now deleted. What a punk. Please do not engage with this fraudulent clown-show of an app.
  - mahirhiro 7mo ago
    Yep, that was actually a placeholder (eventually with real people, and now soon with 500 downloads!) I didn’t comment out properly hence what someone else pointed out with the html commenting. Mistakes happen and I agree I should do a better job to proof read :)
    - Muhammad523 7mo ago
      I truly don't think it's possible for new software to have testimonials... especially good ones.
  - Muhammad523 7mo ago
    Deleted? Well, the Wayback Machine comes to rescue. https://web.archive.org/web/20260305052854/https://poppy-connection-keeper.netlify.app/ https://web.archive.org/web/20260305052854/https://poppy-con...
biofox 7mo ago
"Privacy isn't a feature — it's the foundation." "No feed, no doomscrolling — just intention." "Not your whole address book — just the ones you'd hate to lose touch with" "You care deeply—you're just terrible at follow-through." "You care deeply—your ADHD brain just doesn't..."
- rigrassm 7mo ago
  "You care deeply—your ADHD brain just doesn't..." Well shit, that solves everything! What a revelation -_-
- gumboshoes 7mo ago
  Even the word "intentional" alone is an AI tell.
  - accrual 7mo ago
    "Quietly" is another watermark word I've noticed lately (though not in TFA to be clear).
lelanthran 7mo ago
Well, if someone can't bother to write something, why should anyone bother to read it?
- red-iron-pine 7mo ago
  that was one of the big reasons I dropped FB and Insta. Low effort interactions just aren't worth it. IF it's not worth writing at least 3 sentences chances are I don't care - and won't ever care. Like yeah it's cool to see what some guy I knew in high school is up to, but ultimately that connection ain't making my life better. HN is an exception in the signal to noise ratio is far higher than a lot of other social media - though the bots are hitting it hard these days.
- goodmythical 7mo ago
  That's awfully able-ist isn't it? How do you know that the author is capable of communicating fluently in english? What if it were the case the the author was so excited about sharing a project but didn't know how to properly explained it and so took the extra effort to learn how to get a piece of software to explain it for them? Would that then satisfy your requirement that the human behind the project has done enough work to earn your interest?
  - BobaFloutist 7mo ago
    But AI provides the illusion of communication. Since the AI has no direct access to the user's brain, and has to go off the words they provide, if we're assuming that the person isn't capable generating words that accurately communicate their thoughts, the AI is getting all its information from the same flawed words we'd have access to if they didn't use AI, but destroying any signal encoded in the specific mistakes or choices they've made in its process of shaping their thoughts into something more polished. AIs don't violate entropy, and can't create information from nothing. They can interpret, and expand, and maybe, just maybe, tease out meaning that a human would have missed. But the more sensitively they're tuned to pick up on small nuances, they more likely they're going to interpret a pattern that isn't there, and the more they're tuned to avoid over-interpretation, the more likely they are to miss something that is there, the same as how a human can aim to interpret something with high or low context. The difference is, by filtering it through an AI, you're taking that capability out of other people's hands, you're (often intentionally) flattening and damaging signals people usually use to choose how to distribute their attention (often with the cry of "But it's not fair that people want to spend their attention on things that I'm not good at, I have to use AI to convince people to look at my work that they would prefer not to!!"), and when you do that without acknowledging the use of AI, it feels a lot like you don't care about any negative effects your actions have on the existing ecosystems of human creativity and communication, and you're going to get an appropriately hostile response.

bko 7mo ago

Writing copy is painfully time consuming. AI just does it better, it's meant to communicate and people are not always great communicators. I know it'll write better copy than me. Terminally online people need to get over this weird aversion to anything generated w/ help of AI. Do you have similar misgivings, like "this guy obviously used auto correct", or "he's using speech to text, I'm not reading anything unless its hand-written" Get over it. It's here, it's useful, judge the product on its merits. I get if you see spam email messages that are overly tailored and ignoring them because the person obv didn't do the work. But this dude created a free app that looks pretty cool, maybe he didn't want to spend another few hours to create a pretty standard boilerplate website with app information.

loloquwowndueo 7mo ago
> AI just does it better, it's meant to communicate and people are not always great communicators. Sorry, no. It doesn’t do it better. It’s like chewing cardboard. All fluff, not a lot of actual well-presented information. AI is also not a great communicator- it learned from people, which you said are not great.
endymion-light 7mo ago
THere's a level of AI generated copy that makes the website look unpolished. I think it's right to critique, in the same way i'd critique an obvious bootstrap css website. There's loads of factors that may implicitly turn someone off using an app, and I think it's important to let the OP know a critical one.
BoxFour 7mo ago
I'll bite: Copy can signal that a real person spent time on the details and cared about the product. Auto-correct and speech-to-text still carry that idea. Even boring corporate PR language communicates something. It says the company wants to project stability and predictability, which can be reassuring. Slightly awkward, unpolished copy also sends a signal. It suggests a person speaking directly off-the-cuff rather than polished corporate messaging, which some people prefer. LLM-generated copy sends a signal too, and not always a good one. To me, it often suggests the author didn’t care enough to think carefully about the message - not even enough to edit something that came out of an LLM. At that point it starts to feel like someone just prompted Claude to build a reminders app with no care or thought put into it, which I could do myself if I find this idea valuable at all and even personalize the hell out of it. Maybe that's an unfair first impression! But it's not a crazy one given how quickly the cost of code is approaching 0.

SunshineTheCat 7mo ago

It feels like 90% of HN has become arguing about whether something was made by AI. I'm just counting down the days until no one can actually tell how much AI was involved so we can get to discussing whether the thing is good or not.

goodmythical 7mo ago
There's way way way more human slop complaining about AI than there is AI in the first place. It would be so much nicer if people didn't feel compelled to add the 32nd iteration of whining about the methodology used to produce the content. I'd say I can't wait until the fad passes, but it's always something, isn't it? I guess because anger/irritation/outrage are such popular sentiments people tend to resort to that kind of content because it makes them feel good to participate in trends. There's always going to be the group of people who seek popularity by aping whatever the latest fad is.

mahirhiro 7mo ago

Thank you for the feedback and trying the app! I’ll be working on fixing this :). Unfortunately I didn’t bother tested with the SE, only the 11 onwards, lesson learned.