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How our vibe coded website looks like a designer made it

137 points · 77 comments · yakkomajuri

  1. slopinthebag · · focus · HN ↗
    So because of the article's premise, I'm going to be a bit of a dickhead. I hope nobody takes this the wrong way, because it's not a judgement on the developers. I have also shipped way worse vibecoded frontends and this is coming from a UI guy, so it's not about being an AI hater or anything.

    Your site looks like an AI made it.

    Now there is an actually easy fix: just replace the glass panels and tabs with something that actually fits the rest of the aesthetic. And then I could buy that it was human-designed, at which point, it basically was. And just AI-coded.

    Otherwise it's quite cool, and well done.

    1. yakkomajuri · · focus · HN ↗
      This makes sense yeah, I guess following a similar approach used on the buttons for the tabs as well. Point taken!
      1. slopinthebag · · focus · HN ↗
        Yeah that's the only parts of the design that I could identify as being clearly AI generated, or at least is ai-coded, if it was human designed. Including the panels for demo, pricing, etc.

        The rest of the design kind of reminds me of stardew valley's site, which is quite cute.

        Hope you don't take this as evil criticism, overall I'm a big fan.

        edit: it's not even AI coded, more like incohesive, and with the context of the article...but a simple fix and overall well done ;)

        1. yakkomajuri · · focus · HN ↗
          Not at all! I agree with what you said
    2. preommr · · focus · HN ↗
      > just replace the glass panels and tabs with something that actually fits the rest of the aesthetic.

      Where is this glass?

      Is it the lighter green cards on the home page? That's not really glass, that's just a different a lighter color scheme. The tabs also look fine.

      1. slopinthebag · · focus · HN ↗
        i'm not going to argue with you about aesthetics. taste and all that. but to me there are clearly divergent aesthetics with the rest of the site, and some elements. my suggestion is to just align them, and it will be more cohesive.
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