100 things that make your website look vibe-coded

#ffffff from top to bottom, without a single tone separating one section from another.

Almost black background with violet accents: the default palette of almost every AI landing.

In the headline, on the buttons and in the background. You spot it a mile away.

The headline's key word painted with a two-colour gradient.

Every card and every icon in a different colour, without the colour meaning anything.

Fluorescent greens, cyans and pinks on dark, with a glow around them.

Mint, lavender and peach, all with the same saturation.

slate-500 for all secondary text, straight out of the box.

The same Tailwind blue (#3b82f6) on every button and every link.

The light mode inverted: muddy greys and text you cannot read.

Headlines, body and buttons in the same font and the default weight.

The other two fonts any model picks when you do not tell it anything.

80 pixels in a thin weight, taking up half the screen on a phone.

Headline, text and buttons centred in every section, top to bottom.

150-character lines that nobody reads to the end.

None stands out because they all weigh the same.

«FEATURES» in spaced grey capitals above every section.

Too tight in the headlines and too loose in the body.

Digits of different widths in counters and prices, shifting when they change.

"This" instead of “this”. It shows nobody proofread the text.

The same 2-pixel strokes from shadcn, without changing size or weight.

🚀 in the headline, ✨ on the buttons and one in front of every bullet.

The little four-pointed star next to everything that «has AI».

Every icon inside a soft-coloured square with rounded corners.

Flat people or plastic 3D shapes that fit any company.

The woman smiling at her laptop and the team high-fiving.

The same avatars in your testimonials as on a thousand other sites.

«Trusted by» with Acme, Globex or brands that have never heard of you.

A grey box or an Unsplash photo that no longer exists.

An iPhone showing an app that is not your product.

Icon, three-word title and two lines, three times, under the hero.

Label, headline, subheading, two buttons and an image on the right.

A filled «Start for free» and an outlined «Watch demo», in every hero.

The grid of boxes in different sizes, even when your content does not need it.

The three coloured dots with a command inside, on a site that is not for developers.

A green check in front of every bullet, whether it is a benefit or not.

Basic, Pro «Popular» and Enterprise, even if your product has one price.

A thick coloured border on cards, notices and quotes.

Hero, logos, features, testimonials, pricing, FAQ and final button. In that order.

«Is it secure?», «Can I cancel?», with one-line answers.

Product, Company, Resources and Legal, with half the links empty.

The same spacing between every section, with no rhythm.

Every card floating with the same big, blurry shadow.

The same 16 or 24-pixel radius on buttons, cards, images and fields.

Frosted glass panels over backgrounds that do not need them.

Blurred colour blobs behind the hero.

The grey dot background fading out towards the edges.

The gradient border spinning around the featured card.

Every block comes in with the same upward fade, again and again.

Every card lifts two pixels on hover, clickable or not.

The little arrow sliding on every button and every link.

«10,000+ users» counting up from zero, with numbers that are not real.

Sentences broken with «—» every other paragraph. Almost nobody types them by hand.

«It is not a tool, it is a mindset shift». In every section.

«Take your business to the next level». What business? What level?

Empower, transform, unlock, supercharge, revolutionise, seamless.

«Fast, secure and scalable». Always three adjectives.

«Sarah K., CEO», with a stock photo and a line that fits any product.

«Save 80% of your time». Says who?

Two sentences saying the same thing in other words.

«Lorem ipsum» or a template's sample copy still sitting on the page.

«Submit», «Learn more», «Get started», instead of what happens when you click.

Everything! So! Exciting!

One section talks like a friend and the next like a bank.

«Error: invalid input» instead of telling you what you did wrong.

Not one real screenshot or video. Just illustrations and empty mockups.

No name, no photo, no one who answers if something breaks.

A form and that is it. No email, no phone, no address.

You hit send and the message goes nowhere.

You submit and nothing visible happens, or a browser alert pops up.

Links to «#» or to pages that error out.

X, LinkedIn and GitHub icons that go to each network's home page.

«© 2024» in the footer of a 2026 site.

«Acme Inc.» or the sample project's name in some corner.

«From $0» and then no way to pay.

Every tab says the same thing, or «Create Next App».

Google makes up the text under your link.

You share the link and a grey box shows up.

Vercel's triangle or Vite's bolt in the tab. Or none at all.

Search engines do not know what they may read.

Google takes weeks to find your pages.

Neither Google nor screen reader users know what is in them.

Five H1s on the same page, or none, depending on how big they looked.

The framework's error page, with no way back.

your-project.vercel.app or a subdomain of the tool you built it with.

Text spilling out, cards that do not fit and sideways scrolling.

The main action disappears as soon as you scroll.

A blank page or a spinner, then everything at once.

You get a field wrong and it does not tell you which.

They do not change when pressed or lock while sending, so you click three times.

With the keyboard you cannot tell where you are.

Light grey on white so it «looks elegant».

Buttons move when the images or fonts arrive.

3 MB of JavaScript for a single-page landing.

You press F12 and there are twenty red warnings.

And the site asks for your email on the first scroll.

The footer link goes nowhere.

Google Analytics installed and no banner. Or the banner, with no cookies at all.

You do not know how many people visit or what they do.

In many countries, if you sell something you have to say who you are.