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> Senior interface designer > The website fails accessibility color contrast
Text is WCAG AAA?
Your "paper" choice is #bfbfc4 - even going to #ddd makes the APCA go from ~63 to 80 and would probably address the complaints handily. WCAG has a lot of gaps.
This feels a bit like motivated reasoning to me. This little tool of yours could instead be a seed you build around. Do you have access to a market? Yes? You are in a better position than ten thousand other vibe coders with a similar idea. No? If you have the stamina to pursue a market, you have more stamina than thousands of vibe coders who will just give up. Another way to say the same thing is that many (not all,…
But we do see a sharp rise in the release of apps, without the same tendency in use. [1]
I do think there will be a place for SAAS, even micro-SAAS, but the competition will be fierce and I don't have a lot of hope for indiehacker without any "unfair advantages" like unique knowledge, data, network, etc
[1] https://www.linkedin.com/posts/ericseufert_this-ft-chart-vis...
Unrelated, but since I see that the author posted this to HN: for a reader like me who likes to select text / fidget with mouse clicks as I read, this website is a nightmare.
https://github.com/maximelebreton/quick-javascript-switcher
By default, I don't run into these problems and save a lot of compute!
Adding to the topic rather than dog piling onto the website critique: I think "the context" the author defines also includes harder to unlock peripheral components that makes software products in 2026 defensible . For example, security is getting harder not easier. Enterprise trust rides on needing to have up-to-date knowledge on data regulation as well. Relationships, brand maturity, discovery; all of that becomes r…
Not to forget DVD shipping eras (Sony should not discontinue physical game sales, someone needs to get us silicon/holographic/terabyte recording media already), the focus is on the bundling/unbundling of software making. Slack + Salesforce vs 'we vibed our own chat and CRM just for us'...aka a Neo-SAP ERP program.
It's a cambrian explosion of software where lots are going to learn in realtime that the code was never the value of a software engineer / software, the value is in the shared understanding of an information system or workflow or business value stream, that parts of which happen to run through digital information systems.
By the time AI is done with us, its market effects mean in order to stay employable/added value beyond just widget-watchers, we will all be business strategy experts, or we will be algorithm-fed-doped-up mindless beasts, Morlocks vs Eloi, not because of AI itself, but because of the current rapaciousness of business leaders and an assumed trajectory where society doesn't adapt to social movements and actions now made possible by the existence of LLMs.
Sidneote: the LLMs themselves are not IMO going to achieve AGI any time soon. There might be a compilation of disparate systems and LLMs form part of 'tissues' of an eventual AGI, but not currently.
It's easy to build something for yourself that solves your own use case. You know how you work and what's important to you. Most of the effort in software goes into understand people other than you and building guardrails for them.
> Whatever niche tool you’re sketching this week, a thousand people can prompt a working version by Sunday night
A lot of people on HN are naturally builders. For them it's fun to play around with AI and see what can be built. Not everyone is like that.
For individuals, how many people actually want to spend their weekends building a niche tool for themselves vs just paying a few dollars a month to access something that does the job even though it may not be perfect?
For businesses, the buy vs. build tradeoff does now have some new compelling evidence in favour of "buy" but there's still maintenance needed for the service internally, there will be people with feature requests for it. Before you know it, the company is diverting resources away from their core business for a support tool that doesn't really drive impact.
I think we'll see more options in the marketplace as individuals will be able to get started more easily but SaaS is far from dead.
> Senior interface designer > The website fails accessibility color contrast
Text is WCAG AAA?
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Text is WCAG AAA?
Thus demonstrating that the final accessibility gate must be "the mark I human eyeball". Looks impossible to read without reader mode on my screen. Your "paper" choice is #bfbfc4 - even going to #ddd makes the APCA go from ~63 to 80 and would probably address the complaints handily. WCAG has a lot of gaps.
Anyway, did a quick fix, should be enough for now
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Text is WCAG AAA?
Chrome's built in Lighthouse scoring fails your site on lacking sufficient contrast. Subjectively, even without vision problems, I strongly dislike your choice also.
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Fable helped me edit since I'm not a native English speaker, so I might not catch these subtleties. Thought and structure are my own
A general question for HN: Are there any translation services that I can recommend that people use instead just asking a standard AI to translate in the naive way? I'm saddened by the number of times I'm seeing non-native speakers get tarred with using an AI because the naive way an LLM translates slathers its own style on top of the translation rather than being a more faithful translation.