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Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

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Re: Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

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Post by robeym »

I've always seen similarities between side project websites. It just depends on what the most popular/easiest to use tool is at the time. There was a huge surge of almost identical reusable components 8-10 years ago, but I didn't see nearly as many people talking about that as I do now with AI. People who have side projects will often go with what's easiest to rollout. It doesn't bother me at all. I don't understand why it bothers so many people so much .

Great job to everyone who has created something

Re: Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

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Post by deevus »

dang wrote: post #163

Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/showlim ( Ask HN: Please restrict new accounts from posting - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47300329 - March 2026 (515 comments) Is Show HN dead? No, but it's drowning - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47045804 - Feb 2026 (425 comments)

Thanks for this.

Re: Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

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Post by krapp »

danielvaughn wrote: post #113
vunderba wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My biggest issue with LLM‑assisted webpages (Claude Code is especially egregious) is the lack of respect for basic web content accessibility guidelines. The number of dark‑mode sites I’ve seen where the text (and subtext) are various shades of dark brown or beige is just awful. For reference, you want a contrast ratio between the text and background of at least ~4:1 to be on the safe side. This isn't even that hard t…

I think it's fine, so long as the intent is to refine the thing after you've validated the product idea and direction. There are a million things to optimize in web pages, and AI can't simply one-shot good decisions yet.

Show HN submissions aren't for launching your startup in stealth mode. You shouldn't need to "validate the product idea and direction." It's supposed to be fun, not business.

Re: Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

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Post by Meterman »

Agree with the efficiency framing — the aesthetic homogeneity is downstream of the fact that these are side projects and LLMs are faster than crafting a design system from scratch.

The more interesting question the post raises, at least for me, is that distribution platforms like Show HN, Product Hunt, etc. were designed for an era when launching something was costly enough to be a signal. When a weekend project can ship a production-looking landing page, upvotes on these platforms start selecting for whatever catches the eye fastest, not whatever actually solves a problem. The signal degrades.

I've been thinking about this a lot because I'm building a directory where you have to rank 5 other projects before you can post your own — trying to see if forced engagement produces better signal than one-click upvotes. Too early to say if it works, but I do think "how do we find the good stuff under the slop" is the real problem and it probably isn't solved by detecting AI design patterns.

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Post by [deleted] »

simonw wrote: post #8

I expect most side-projects are being built with AI-assistance now. Side projects are typically time constrained - if AI saves you time, why wouldn't you use it? They're also the ideal place to try out new AI tools that your professional work might not let you experiment with. (The headline of this piece doesn't really do it justice - it misuses "vibe coded" and fails to communicate that the substance of the post is…

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Re: Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

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Post by jackp96 »

Meterman wrote: post #214

Agree with the efficiency framing — the aesthetic homogeneity is downstream of the fact that these are side projects and LLMs are faster than crafting a design system from scratch. The more interesting question the post raises, at least for me, is that distribution platforms like Show HN, Product Hunt, etc. were designed for an era when launching something was costly enough to be a signal. When a weekend project can…

100% agree with you here. Psychologically, I'm pretty convinced that the best spaces on the internet (and potentially off of it) require some small amount of friction for quality conversation and collaboration.

Comment sections on paid substacks tend to be much better than free ones. And on Hackernews (and Reddit, a decade ago), the old-school, text-heavy approach (complete with voting) help ensure that quality content rises.

I find the balance fascinating — exactly how much friction do you need to create a healthy online community? And what are the best ways of doing that without making people pay?

Re: Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

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Post by stingraycharles »

Meterman wrote: post #214

Agree with the efficiency framing — the aesthetic homogeneity is downstream of the fact that these are side projects and LLMs are faster than crafting a design system from scratch. The more interesting question the post raises, at least for me, is that distribution platforms like Show HN, Product Hunt, etc. were designed for an era when launching something was costly enough to be a signal. When a weekend project can…

AI philosophizing on HN about the degrading impact AI has on HN is getting annoying and missing the point entirely.

Re: Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

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Post by sen »

sowbug wrote: post #136
vunderba wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My biggest issue with LLM‑assisted webpages (Claude Code is especially egregious) is the lack of respect for basic web content accessibility guidelines. The number of dark‑mode sites I’ve seen where the text (and subtext) are various shades of dark brown or beige is just awful. For reference, you want a contrast ratio between the text and background of at least ~4:1 to be on the safe side. This isn't even that hard t…

Were/Are human-generated side projects better in this respect?

Yes, because a majority just use a CSS framework to save time, and all the big/common frameworks have put a fair bit of effort into their default colours and typography.

I would rather go back to when all side projects used Bootstrap than this purple-on-purple-with-glowing-purple mess of stuff we have now.

Re: Scoring Show HN submissions for AI design patterns

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Post by conception »

vunderba wrote: post #84
simonw wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I've genuinely had solid results from telling Claude "... and make sure it has good accessibility".

I could see that. I’ve found that the more specificity you add to your prompt and less freedom you give Claude Code to kind of just “do its own thing”, the better your results will be. FWIW, there’s also an official frontend-design skill for CC [1]. A while back I incorporated some of the more relevant guidance from WCAG into it [2]. [1] - https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/plugins/... [2] - https://…

Note guidance for 4.7 specifically calls out being more specific compared to 4.6. Though the system prompt seems to say the opposite.

Tldr I would expect different outcomes with 4.7 with not being specific.

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