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strimozayesterday at 11:54 AM9 repliesview on HN

Used Claude Design to build the landing page for my side project (strimoza.com) over the weekend. Honestly impressive for a solo dev with no design background — got something shippable in a few hours. That said, I still ended up going back to tweak things manually. It's great for 80%, the last 20% still needs judgment. Not sure it kills Figma for teams, but for indie devs it's a game changer.


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lightbulbishyesterday at 12:16 PM

Please change your hero font. The extra wide style hurts reading

raframyesterday at 12:19 PM

It’s pretty hard to read on a phone, and the prose, particularly in the bullet points, has that annoying LLM-y trait of focusing way too much on implementation details ("Bunny CDN"!) rather than telling me a single reason why I'd actually want to pay for your product.

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jujube3today at 9:47 AM

I think the LLM pranked you. Try using the --no-but-seriously flag next time.

lelanthranyesterday at 1:29 PM

> Used Claude Design to build the landing page for my side project (strimoza.com) over the weekend. Honestly impressive for a solo dev with no design background

This looks like it is out of a template, though. If you need something like this, why not use a template? The font is pretty bad, though, so a template might be an improvement here.

sbarreyesterday at 12:18 PM

The other commenter went a bit hard on their critique.. to each their own, I think your design is mostly fine except for that super squished title font (that is also sadly used on buttons)..

It makes it very hard to read, and if you're counting on people scanning the page to quickly understand your offering, and then stick around, you should consider fixing that.

Choose a better proportioned font to improve readability and it will make your site instantly better and easier to understand.

I honestly thought the rendering was broken when I first loaded the page (I'm on an ultra-wide monitor) but then realized it was just like that.

iamsaitamyesterday at 12:01 PM

If i can be forthright, it looks like any other llm slop website design. The grain effect, the extra long FAQ, the reveal animations, the bad combination of font sizes and contrast ratios.. you're better off ripping off a website that has been actually designed by someone who understands what they are doing.

motorocoyesterday at 9:46 PM

thanks for sharing your project. how was your process different compared to pre-claude design? would you use it again?

sreekanth850yesterday at 12:13 PM

Did you checked it in mobile device?

nekoooooyesterday at 8:57 PM

every single cta on your site is nearly unreadable. you need to stop drinking the kool-aid.