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Show HN: Performative-UI – a react component library of design tropes

https://vorpus.github.io/performativeUI/
239•lizhang•2h ago
hope you enjoy

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jrflo•1h ago
That ascii lava lamp effect is low key really cool
carlos-menezes•1h ago
Lags the hell out of my browser (Safari) window though.
lizhang•1h ago
sorry in advance if this post causes more sites to use that effect
tyleo•28m ago
Yeah probably my favorite of the bunch too. I bet there’s a fun project to do to make a customizer for that.
tfitz237•1h ago
These all look very professional for (basically) a parody library
Boxxed•59m ago
...which might just show how predictable and similar all janky startup pages are.
NuclearPM•47m ago
Janky?
csomar•44m ago
What are the odds some companies end up using it for a real product?
eranation•38m ago
100%
MisterKent•1h ago
Now I can produce slop without AI.
sph•43m ago
Why would you do that, when you can make shit nobody needs 10x faster with AI
hyperhello•18m ago
The author should have AI set up a simple deployment to EC2 and Azure and make an endless series of semantically meaningless AI companies with web sites and submit them everywhere. The web sites should also do this themselves.
igurss•1h ago
Nice UI quality
erdaltoprak•1h ago
It's very fun and way too polished, thanks!
imafish•1h ago
I heard you like AI slop...
wg0•1h ago
Man... That's satire on a whole another level. What a technical and deep sense of humor.
heldrida•1h ago
Spot on "AI Native".
ajpaulson•1h ago
Lmao!!! Awesome
staminade•1h ago
Very funny. Although ironic that this whole library was built with AI.
sbarre•47m ago
Ironic, or appropriate?
ghurtado•21m ago
Ironically appropriate
smhanov•1h ago
It needs a purple gradient mode.
padolsey•1h ago
The most extreme virtue-signal is to go completely browser-default and have no styling whatsoever. Like lowercasing because your pinky can't be arsed to reach for the shift-key even though you've a billion dollars in series A.
Waterluvian•57m ago
Netscape knows best.
ghurtado•22m ago
Give me Navigator or give me death
MrBuddyCasino•55m ago
Array language proponents also like to do this. In their case I‘ll allow it, it matches the substance.
sph•50m ago
Ah yes, the jeevacation special
arm32•34m ago
Craziest m'island
cmrdporcupine•39m ago
lowercasing everything -- just means

you're literate smart... poetic; because

you read e.e.cummings

and william carlos

williams

...

fin.

jtbayly•57m ago
I could see actually using this…
Brajeshwar•56m ago
Many a true word is spoken in jest.
yosef123•54m ago
This needs an additional subscriptions service tier, that's even more performative and even more AI
cmrdporcupine•51m ago
NGL I'm going to steal/borrow/leach all sorts of these for my product.

When in Rome!

kardianos•49m ago
Savage and accurate. 100%.
marknutter•49m ago
Yawn. This is just bootstrap all over again. So what if people who don't have design skills can now create pleasant looking websites?
ghurtado•17m ago
The thing about humor is that you don't have to tell people when you don't get a joke, you can just quietly continue to live your life while you wait for your next chance to be temporarily happy.
avaer•43m ago
I've worked on several projects where people looked at the site, which was simple and straight to the point, and people would straight up tell me they didn't take it seriously because it didn't have these performative UI things on it.

It's like when a Youtuber's audience complains about how they're constantly asking you to subscribe. The reason it happens is because the statistics say it works.

epolanski•32m ago
Same for clickbait thumbnails, people hate them, and yet don't really click on non clickbaity ones.
thewebguyd•27m ago
In the marketing world this is called revealed preference. This stuff is A/B tested to death. Anyone trying to sell something is best served by watching people's behavior instead of listening to what they say, as the two are often different if not polar opposites.
wavemode•21m ago
I don't think the commentary being made here is that startup websites should not be flashy. Just that, maybe they don't all need to look exactly the same as each other.
jsdalton•10m ago
It seems to me the parent commenter is saying the opposite: looking exactly like each other _is_ the point. It's a form of social signaling, to indicate that a project "belongs" to the in group of high-flying successful AI hype projects.

Note I'm not arguing that this is a good strategy. But given that so many people follow it I imagine it's not as bad as it appears on the surface.

utopiah•32m ago
Neat, opened an issue there for a finicky bit of code that'd help me quite a bit. /s
eranation•29m ago
My Claude feels personally attacked.
grassfedgeek•10m ago
Adding github link for those who want to use it (I do): https://github.com/vorpus/performativeUI
lizhang•4m ago
wait my readme isnt performative enough yet, let me add a chart showing the star history
arm32•33m ago
Instructions unclear, am will.i.am
psadauskas•35m ago
I've mostly stopped caring about using using proper capitalization, commas, grammar and spelling in my writing of comments, primarily as a signal that i'm not an llm.
frantathefranta•29m ago
Claude's "write me a product description like a cool human would" is just using lower-case where it shouldn't be though.
nozzlegear•11m ago
If you turn on HN's "Show Dead" setting, there are tons of LLM-generated comments on stories related to AI. You can see the human(s) behind the LLM trying to fiddle with the style of comment by making them skip proper grammar, capitalization, use or avoid certain phrases, and so on. The biggest tell for LLM content, though, is just the content as a whole: it sounds fake and ungenuine, like it passed through a committee of hostage negotiators to remove the speaker's own attachment/expectations.

They can configure it to use all lowercase letters, skip em-dashes, make grammar mistakes, stop saying "it's not X, it's Y", or whatever, yet the content itself just has a fake quality to it that makes it stand out, which is why those comments still get flagged IMO.

theturtletalks•8m ago
It really comes down to first impression. Your website design is your company’s first impression. If the design is clean, people will believe the product is clean and robust as well. Similar to how people think things that cost more and probably high quality and better overall.

As for this website, the best component is the ASCII animation in the hero and you can’t even copy that component. In fact, that nice ASCII hero is what gave me a good first impression to go thru all the components.

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