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dlandisyesterday at 7:37 PM4 repliesview on HN

Advice: remove all slop and fluff from the website such as "Everything you need. Nothing you don’t."

Just state the information you want to communicate in the plainest and most straightforward way possible.


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sebmellenyesterday at 11:12 PM

That phrase itself is such an astounding performative contradiction [0].

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performative_contradiction

vitally3643yesterday at 7:51 PM

Something nobody needs is pointless hot air like "Everything you need. Nothing you don't."

thejazzmanyesterday at 8:09 PM

You’d be surprised how hard this actually is. I spent 3 days iterating on a marketing site, where I had very explicit / “well written” copy, and it would just repeatedly rewrite it back to the most awful slop. Over and over again! Ended up adding various AGENTS rules telling it to leave the copy alone

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para_paroluyesterday at 8:28 PM

I don’t think anyone ever looked at result. Website if full of overflow bugs. It’s pure slop.

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