You forgot to include some vulnerabilities. It just doesn't feel complete to me.
Jokes aside, I'm not mentioning who, but right on the front page of a popular vibe coding platform you can see a bunch of promoted real-world projects and almost all of them have some gaping security hole - and I'm not referring to the click-jacking kind.
It's funny and this timing is perfect - just today two (mostly non-technical) friends, unprompted, sent me two different "projects" they just launched. Both have the same identical and unmistakable AI design with pills and tags and highlights and icons and all that. Both are bland, don't really offer anything deeply novel, but are unmistakably real and perhaps even usable.
On the one hand - I'm actually psyched that mostly nontechnical people have successfully launched their ideas into the world. This would have eaten up time and at least several $thousand previously.
On the other hand, they are both super blah projects.
Date I say it: The AI Slop Web App era has arrived in full force.
These alleged vibe coded websites look identical to all the tech startup websites of the 2010s. Hmm I wonder where the LLM got the idea to make all websites look this way.
Is the issue that all vibe-coded sites look the same, or that everyone uses the same Bootstrap or Material components? This site does indeed look like every other vibe-coded site, but so does any site using the same component libraries.
I run a design agency and I've invested a lot of time and energy into a general design prompt that puts out some decently unique looking sites.
We offer this as our "Mini" package at a very affordable price ($99/mo, no setup fee) for clients who don't want (or need) a fully custom design.
I'm not sure you can call this "vibe coding" as much as "vibe engineering" because the resulting code closely models the heavily customized components and styling patterns of our other 60+ custom websites, but the following website designs were very heavily "vibe-derived", from a design sense:
Not exclusively - we have a few clients outside of our region, but most of our marketing is centered around local businesses in our area, and probably 80% of our client base are located within a 50 mile radius.
The whole thrust of anti-vibe UI sentiments remind me of when Twitter Bootstrap came out. The unlocks were huge because suddenly people who didn't know how to make nice looking UI didn't have to do much more than drop in a stylesheet link and add some classes. Despite that, everyone complained all web sites started looking the same.
And, sure, that was valid. However, eventually everyone started figuring out how to get a unique look out of Bootstrap while still enjoying the benefits. All our modern frontend component frameworks can trace their lineage back to Bootstrap.
We'll see something similar with vibe UIs. Just a matter of time.
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[ 4.4 ms ] story [ 47.3 ms ] threadJokes aside, I'm not mentioning who, but right on the front page of a popular vibe coding platform you can see a bunch of promoted real-world projects and almost all of them have some gaping security hole - and I'm not referring to the click-jacking kind.
On the one hand - I'm actually psyched that mostly nontechnical people have successfully launched their ideas into the world. This would have eaten up time and at least several $thousand previously.
On the other hand, they are both super blah projects.
Date I say it: The AI Slop Web App era has arrived in full force.
The text content is largely hand written but the style/structures/etc are vibes.
Codex CLI on the $20 plus plan
The first shot was remarkably similar to the end result, but there was lots of tweaking and testing.
I vibe coded a non-serious website for my vibe coded OSS project. But I had fun. :)
https://pluqqy.com
We offer this as our "Mini" package at a very affordable price ($99/mo, no setup fee) for clients who don't want (or need) a fully custom design.
I'm not sure you can call this "vibe coding" as much as "vibe engineering" because the resulting code closely models the heavily customized components and styling patterns of our other 60+ custom websites, but the following website designs were very heavily "vibe-derived", from a design sense:
- https://thedalaijavacdga.com/
- https://crossroadsflx.com/
- https://privateertattoolounge.com/
And, sure, that was valid. However, eventually everyone started figuring out how to get a unique look out of Bootstrap while still enjoying the benefits. All our modern frontend component frameworks can trace their lineage back to Bootstrap.
We'll see something similar with vibe UIs. Just a matter of time.
(also I think you can get far more variety from LLM-designed website with just a tiny bit of inspiration in your prompts)
index.html
index-working.html
index-revised.html
index-revised-2.html
debug-site-on-mobile-issue.sh
index-backup-2.html
DEBUGGING-RESULTS.md
CLAUDE.md
INSTALLATION-INSTRUCTIONS.md