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Show HN: Get your website copy and design roasted

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Re: Show HN: Get your website copy and design roasted

#11
> Was this website crafted under a rock in the 90s and accidentally released into the modern web? The layout is a chaotic blend of hideous simplicity and sleep-inducing banality. Navigation feels like an archaeological dig for anything remotely interesting—but there isn’t anything worth finding. The site boasts all the charisma of a wet paper bag and reads like the personal diary of someone lonely enough to confuse the internet with their therapist. For a software engineer, your web design skills are grotesquely primitive; my eyeballs started yawning halfway through. Did the Design Fairy forget to visit you when you were crafting this bland, lifeless piece of web purgatory? If this is what "tickles your curiosity," then may your curiosity rest in peace. And don’t even get me started on the aesthetic that’s so basic it practically begs for a mercy redesign. Bravo, you've made the consummate digital antidote to interest.

Well, fair enough with regard to optics, needlessly below the belt regarding content.

Re: Show HN: Get your website copy and design roasted

#12
Dead on with https://spacejam.com/1996:

"Wow, where do I even start with this interstellar eyesore? If the '90s threw up on a webpage, this would be it. The clashing colors, with bright red text on a black starry background, is an instant migraine in the making. It’s like someone asked, “How can we make this as visually offensive as possible?” and then went above and beyond the call of duty. And don't even get me started on the layout—it’s an exploding piñata of random links and outdated images that scream, "We gave up halfway through!" Navigating this cosmic catastrophe feels like trying to piece together a puzzle that was designed to be unsolvable. Those garish icons are an assault on the senses and seem to be floating around without rhyme or reason. This train wreck of a website is a nostalgic trip straight into the worst parts of early internet design—a testament to everything that should stay buried in the past. Congratulations, you’ve successfully turned Space Jam into Space Junk."

Re: Show HN: Get your website copy and design roasted

#17

Enter should submit the form from the input. One of my biggest pet peeves. It's not even within a form tag :'( WHY IS THE "SEE THE CODE ON GITHUB" NOT AN ANCHOR TAG! DO YOU UNDERSTAND BASIC SEMANTICS? DO YOU REALLY NEED TO NAVIGATE VIA JAVASCRIPT FOR A STATIC LINK? WHY CAN'T I MIDDLE CLICK TO OPEN IN A NEW TAB? BECAUSE YOU USED A BUTTON! WHY IS THERE NO LABEL FOR THE MAIN INPUT. JUST CHUCK SR-ONLY ON THE LABEL ELEMEN…

Well done. I was downvoting you until the Non-LLM roasts part. Comment should be ranked in the top.

Re: Show HN: Get your website copy and design roasted

#18
HA! Your LLM agents/prompts nailed a hilarious tone. For https://ellipsis.dev

> This website looks like it was designed by someone who just discovered the concept of "AI" and decided to slap it all over a half-baked template. Your color scheme is about as inspiring as a Windows '95 screensaver, and your layout feels like it was put together by a kindergartner with a crayon and a ruler. What's with the "trusted by 1,400+ GitHub users" badge? Do you expect anyone to be impressed by this grand endorsement from approximately 0.00001% of the developer community? Your idea of "AI code reviews" seems as lofty as a middle school science project titled "Let's Cure Cancer." You hail it like it's the second coming of sliced bread, but your execution and presentation scream amateur hour. And "7-day trial"? Can't wait to dedicate a whole week to something that looks like it was made on a GeoCities page. Fix your design, your messaging, and maybe try again when you actually understand the tech you're hawking.

The worst part is we did use a template!

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