I've worked on several projects where people looked at the site, which was simple and straight to the point, and people would straight up tell me they didn't take it seriously because it didn't have these performative UI things on it.
It's like when a Youtuber's audience complains about how they're constantly asking you to subscribe. The reason it happens is because the statistics say it works.
I don't think the commentary being made here is that startup websites should not be flashy. Just that, maybe they don't all need to look exactly the same as each other.
In the marketing world this is called revealed preference. This stuff is A/B tested to death. Anyone trying to sell something is best served by watching people's behavior instead of listening to what they say, as the two are often different if not polar opposites.
The most extreme virtue-signal is to go completely browser-default and have no styling whatsoever. Like lowercasing because your pinky can't be arsed to reach for the shift-key even though you've a billion dollars in series A.
I've mostly stopped caring about using using proper capitalization, commas, grammar and spelling in my writing of comments, primarily as a signal that i'm not an llm.
The author should have AI set up a simple deployment to EC2 and Azure and make an endless series of semantically meaningless AI companies with web sites and submit them everywhere. The web sites should also do this themselves.
The thing about humor is that you don't have to tell people when you don't get a joke, you can just quietly continue to live your life while you wait for your next chance to be temporarily happy.
I've worked on several projects where people looked at the site, which was simple and straight to the point, and people would straight up tell me they didn't take it seriously because it didn't have these performative UI things on it.
It's like when a Youtuber's audience complains about how they're constantly asking you to subscribe. The reason it happens is because the statistics say it works.
I don't think the commentary being made here is that startup websites should not be flashy. Just that, maybe they don't all need to look exactly the same as each other.
Same for clickbait thumbnails, people hate them, and yet don't really click on non clickbaity ones.
In the marketing world this is called revealed preference. This stuff is A/B tested to death. Anyone trying to sell something is best served by watching people's behavior instead of listening to what they say, as the two are often different if not polar opposites.
The most extreme virtue-signal is to go completely browser-default and have no styling whatsoever. Like lowercasing because your pinky can't be arsed to reach for the shift-key even though you've a billion dollars in series A.
I've mostly stopped caring about using using proper capitalization, commas, grammar and spelling in my writing of comments, primarily as a signal that i'm not an llm.
Claude's "write me a product description like a cool human would" is just using lower-case where it shouldn't be though.
Netscape knows best.
Give me Navigator or give me death
Ah yes, the jeevacation special
Craziest m'island
Array language proponents also like to do this. In their case I‘ll allow it, it matches the substance.
lowercasing everything -- just means
you're literate smart... poetic; because
you read e.e.cummings
and william carlos
williams
...
fin.
Instructions unclear, am will.i.am
These all look very professional for (basically) a parody library
What are the odds some companies end up using it for a real product?
100%
...which might just show how predictable and similar all janky startup pages are.
Janky?
My Claude feels personally attacked.
That ascii lava lamp effect is low key really cool
Yeah probably my favorite of the bunch too. I bet there’s a fun project to do to make a customizer for that.
Lags the hell out of my browser (Safari) window though.
sorry in advance if this post causes more sites to use that effect
I could see actually using this…
This needs an additional subscriptions service tier, that's even more performative and even more AI
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
Savage and accurate. 100%.
It's very fun and way too polished, thanks!
Very funny. Although ironic that this whole library was built with AI.
Ironic, or appropriate?
Ironically appropriate
Spot on "AI Native".
NGL I'm going to steal/borrow/leach all sorts of these for my product.
When in Rome!
It needs a purple gradient mode.
Man... That's satire on a whole another level. What a technical and deep sense of humor.
Now I can produce slop without AI.
Why would you do that, when you can make shit nobody needs 10x faster with AI
The author should have AI set up a simple deployment to EC2 and Azure and make an endless series of semantically meaningless AI companies with web sites and submit them everywhere. The web sites should also do this themselves.
Nice UI quality
Lmao!!! Awesome
I heard you like AI slop...
Neat, opened an issue there for a finicky bit of code that'd help me quite a bit. /s
Yawn. This is just bootstrap all over again. So what if people who don't have design skills can now create pleasant looking websites?
The thing about humor is that you don't have to tell people when you don't get a joke, you can just quietly continue to live your life while you wait for your next chance to be temporarily happy.