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Are we in the era of AI slop landing pages?

5 pointsaashir-saas8 comments

Sorry for making it sound like a rant, but is anyone else actually tired of seeing the same AI slop landing pages? Those same card layouts and color shcemes? And those fake metrics, "Trusted by 10,000+ professionals", no bro my SimilarWeb extension shows 0 traffic on your site for the past 3 months..

I mean yeah I get it that you need to ship fast but maybe like delay your launch for 12-24 hrs and make at least a half decent and appealing landing page. These landing pages remind me of that scene from Toy Story where there was a shelf full of Buzz lightyear figurines. Do people actually have 0 taste?

Do you guys trust such apps especially in B2B space? With a landing page that screams 0% trust and 100% AI generated, you bet I'm not gonna give you access to my credentials or repos etc..

Your landing page is the first impression of your app, at least make it count..

This concludes my rant Anyone else feels the same?

Landing pages were already heavily templated prior to agents.

I agree, but at least those landing pages resonated trust and actually had attention to detail

A good product has a soul. And if it has one, the author won't hide it behind an ugly cover. Why push people away from such a valuable, beloved creation (if that's what it is?) A cover like a hundred others is zero effort - and trust is built on invested effort. Good service is where the customer is cared for. If the customer isn't cared for, it's not service - it's pure selling.

No? They all looked the same and none had information you was looking form

> actually had attention to detail

bollocks, most were terrible and often worse than AI

I think many of us who haven’t been consumed by the mass AI psychosis are quite weary of low-effort AI generated websites.

To be honest, I did not know others are using AI to make cookie cutter looking landing pages.

I've used AI to create landing pages. But from the sound of things, probably not the way others do.

1) I use a custom GPT to 'swipe' the appropriate concepts from one of the hundreds of winning b2b or b2c sales letter in my swipe file collection that best matches who I am selling to, and then have the GPT convert my notes and product details and company details and avatar details into a sales offer based on the winning concepts uncovered by swiping the winning offer, _never_ copy the words, not even paraphrase

2) After the GPT gives me the converted copy, I give that content to chatgpt and claude for copy improvements and then have chatgpt give me landing page HTML+CSS from the approved sales copy

3) And then I find successful sites in the industry and tell ai (usually chatgpt first) to emulate what is working behind the scenes for the winning site, and then have AI give me a second HTML+CSS based on the layout and design ideas etc uncovered from studying the winning performers within google/bing for the appropriate target market am also going after. I give the output to claude to see if chatgpt nailed it or missed the mark

4) If all is well according to both llms after several rounds of back and forth and push backs, I hand edit everything to look and sound closer to what I want it to look and sound like

Nothing cookie cutter about that.

I assumed everyone did something similar.

Oh. I do use wordpress themes extensively. So there are landing page 'templates' with my own graphics and placement of the graphics, not the developer's graphics.

I am not a designer. But I know how to handle basic html and css editing if someone else deals with the initial hassles of building the HTML+CSS. I will never try that myself //shudder//

PS: If anyone wants the GPT let me know. It is free to chatgpt to users. Am not promoting anything. There's nothing in it for me to mention it.

PPS: I'm new here. If is appropriate to post the GPT here let me know. Otherwise I won't.

nah. templates and hyper-similar DIY platforms meant that most look the same anyway

AI is just the same shit, but faster

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