Tailwind and slop apps • Hacker News Board

Re: Tailwind and slop apps

#21

Post by 0x62 » Fri, Jun 12, 2026, 2:20 AM UTC

SkiFreeWin3 wrote: post #5

Anyone have good lines to include in a prompt to direct LLMs from their default tailwind/Linear/etc. design modes on the first shot?

Not a prompt, but the Tailwind team have a separate product under development that aims to solve this problem: https://ui.sh

Re: Tailwind and slop apps

#22

Post by tptacek » Fri, Jun 12, 2026, 2:21 AM UTC

These pages look fine. I'm not seeing the problem. Most landing pages don't need to be creative statements; in fact, I'd wager the majority are hurt by creativity; real creativity is risky! Which of these applications want an artistic statement on their brochure pages?

Re: Tailwind and slop apps

#23

Post by queenkjuul » Fri, Jun 12, 2026, 2:34 AM UTC

I don't really think it's tailwind. I use tailwind for everything, and it doesn't look like this. They're utility classes, you can do absolutely anything you want with them. LLMs just choose to do this.

The big gradient fonts came from Apple Keynote, i thought. At least that's where i first saw templates like that.

Re: Tailwind and slop apps

#24

Post by cadamsdotcom » Fri, Jun 12, 2026, 2:44 AM UTC

The unstated assumptions are a) a cookie cutter site is always vibecoded b) cookie cutter marketing site always means the person left it to last and thus did not invested deeply in their product.

Deeply flawed unfortunately.

For example - and I know it may not map cleanly back to software, but it’s worth thinking about - some of the best food is served in restaurants with plastic chairs and tables where the decor is an afterthought.

Re: Tailwind and slop apps

#25

Post by Raed667 » Fri, Jun 12, 2026, 2:46 AM UTC

Not every landing page needs to be a creative exercise, since bootstrap we have landed on common patterns that reduce cognitive load and that is a good thing

Re: Tailwind and slop apps

#26

Post by gfat » Fri, Jun 12, 2026, 2:48 AM UTC

girvo wrote: post #19

alexchantavy wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I miss that 2010s startup look

That lobster font we all used for our startup names was legendary

lobster.ly

Re: Tailwind and slop apps

#27

Post by elicash » Fri, Jun 12, 2026, 2:54 AM UTC

avindrag wrote: post #3

gibbitz wrote: post #2

Tailwind is the latest bootstrap. These frameworks were designed to allow people with no skill in design/UI to produce something that passed for attractive. Since most clients are more concerned about time and cost than quality and originality, this approach effectively killed bespoke landing pages and led a lot of UI devs to move away from hand-coding styles to glomming on class names and using a "best practice" fra…

> Tailwind is the latest bootstrap Bootstrap ships components. AFAIK you need another library if you want that in Tailwind.