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elwingo1 • today at 7:38 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Thanks! Me and the co-founder of the project built Flowbite previously so we have some experience in the UI/UX field. I think that as with anything you can copy it, but your agent will be pointed to an HTML+CSS structure, rather than the natural language structure of our prompts/MCP context. Plus, you can support the work of two fellow humans.


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ilovenikobellic • today at 10:52 PM

as fancy as your buttons are, if you use your frontal lobe for more than 0.1 picoseconds you can realize quite simply anyone can just think "hmm... this is a upload button. if i say make me a modern white upload button and tell it to have the progress update in percents while the file uploads, then have it fade out and have a green done text with a checkmark to the left" and your natural language structure of your prompts is quite useless now! or "make me a verification code button, with four numbers. the highlight box should move naturally between the numbers, and once all four numbers are placed, replace the email icon with a checkmark that is green" or "make a black box that grows once it can't fit the text inside it" or "make a theme switcher, that represents light mode with the sun and dark mode with the moon, and quickly fades colors to the selected theme when the theme switcher indicator is pressed" or "make me a password prompt that hides the characters and replaces them with circles, unless you click the eye button that shows your password, which will then be crossed out with a line until you press it again to hide your password" also if i wanted to be really woke with you the inline validation example having the name NEED to be 3 letters long at least minimum is very very VERY bad of an idea. dudes named bo or ed, for example. or chinese people who can be named things like yu. or japanese people named ao. i can't see any situation where this would be worth paying for. this nonsense absolutely stumps me, why would anyone pay for... skills and prompts, brand kits, sound effects, site auditing (by ai, not even humans), ui animations, and design rules. things we could easily prompt for free, i'm sorry this looks like it's made to bait people into thinking "so this is free" then hitting you with a login gate. especially the audit page (https://www.typeui.sh/audit), i think it's the most blatant example, and i think the 'unlock design skill', 'unlock prompt', et cetera should be made even clearer it's a login wall. like 'unlock design skill by signing up', 'unlock prompt by signing up' etc. the audit page has no clear within 2 seconds of looking at it warning that you know THIS IS A MASSIVE LOGIN WALL. all your design skills (https://www.typeui.sh/design-skills), while good looking to the eye at first, are quite clearly vibecoded and don't provide anything new that makes ai handle design in an actually unique way. the ones i would say are the only ones even somewhat salvagable are 'immersive', 'sketch', 'cypherpunk' (the best one imo and closest to not looking like ai slop), and maybe the color scheme of organic. i don't want to be rude but your website really really sucks and i have no clue who this is supposed to target when people have eyes and brains and can just prompt what your website does... or simply just put the design skill things into their ai like this 'hi claude Cypherpunk is a stark retro-tech design system with one electric-lime surface, near-black ink typography, raised beige components, and pixel-edged UI structure. make me a website like that' or 'hi claude make me a web kit' as respectfully as i can say it, your business idea sucks and arguably is making the problem of bad ui worse given how so many of those design skill prompts look like ai slop if you look at this, https://www.typeui.sh/design-skills/fantasy, and tell me it isn't slop, you've lost your mind. this is like the worst of the worst offenders on the design skills part... no one wants their ai to make sites like this, it's literally the definition of ai slop once you take away that one quirky font. the only part of your site i can see even being slightly worthwhile is the ui foundations part (https://www.typeui.sh/ui-foundations), and even then it would be much better if done by a hobbyist who was interested in covering more than things just above "don't put your website pink, your text lime green, and make it all in comic sans". like take this for instance, (https://www.typeui.sh/ui-foundations/configurator?category=i...) this nonsense. you're targeting literal developers using ai here by... telling them high quality png is better than low quality jpg or well... (https://www.typeui.sh/ui-foundations/configurator?category=c...) don't have unreadable text. I NOTICED ANOTHER LOGIN WALL THAT ISN'T CLEARLY DISCLOSED, on the download all rules button it brings you into a login wall. it's like the things you'd teach a 10 year old doing ui design in a coding class lol. i have no clue who this is actually for, besides being a site for fools to part their money with. i'm being serious, i can't tell WHAT your site does that a prompt can't easily do in five minutes. i'm so sorry to be mean here, but your whole website is glorified snake oil to trap newbies into relying on your service, either that or YOU think this is a good product and this will help DEVELOPERS and their ai learn and make their ai sites better (which is arguably MUCH MUCH scarier). it seems you're trying to market for developers, yet you're making things for noobs. any developer could copy your prompts in 1 minute. arguably they wouldn't WANT TO, they'd just write that shit themselves... this site is just a bunch of predatory login walls and tutorials that would only be useful to 10 year olds, where you deceptively market it as if your glorified bundle of prompts is literally worth 120/300/360 so people can think 'this is a tool for senior devs' and you can waste their money

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