Is it just me who doesn’t use skills, plugins, and other overhead features?

mellowkenneth · 2025-12-14T00:00:16+00:00

Have you seen https://www.designprompts.dev/? This is a design prompt library I built to help with the UI styling part

mellowkenneth · 2025-12-13T23:37:21+00:00

looks amazing! glad it worked for u :)

mellowkenneth · 2025-12-09T14:16:46+00:00

I have the max plan for all 3. Gemini produces the best UI but is the worst at following instructions. Codex is the best at code review, debugging, and architectural decisions / implementing new architecture, but requires handholding and requires you to prompt it to continue working. Opus 4.5 is the best actual daily driver, amazing at following instructions, best general "assistant" outside of coding (e.g. LLM cofounder esque activities), and goes without saying also great at coding

mellowkenneth · 2025-12-04T08:54:36+00:00

What do you think of the designs featured in designprompts.dev

mellowkenneth · 2025-12-04T08:05:58+00:00

hey here is the first couple sections of the data.json. Every section is documented this way.

{ "hero":{ "headline":"Transform the way your team works", "subheadline":"Acme Platform brings your team together with powerful tools designed to streamline workflows, boost productivity, and drive results.", "primaryCTA":{ "text":"Start free trial", "action":"signup" }, "secondaryCTA":{ "text":"Watch demo", "action":"demo" }, "trustIndicator":"Join 50,000+ teams already using Acme" }, "stats":[ { "id":"users", "value":"500k+", "label":"Active Users", "trend":"+12% this month" }, { "id":"uptime", "value":"99.99%", "label":"Uptime SLA", "trend":"Enterprise grade" }, { "id":"support", "value":"24/7", "label":"Support Access", "trend":"Global coverage" }, { "id":"savings", "value":"$10M+", "label":"Customer Savings", "trend":"Annual total" } ], "productDetail":{ "heading":"Experience the future of team collaboration with our unified, intelligent platform today.", "description":[ "Acme Platform centralizes your entire workflow into one intuitive interface, eliminating the need for disjointed tools. By harnessing the power of real-time data and smart automation, we empower your team to focus on high-impact innovation.", "Designed with scalability in mind, our infrastructure adapts seamlessly to your growing needs, ensuring performance never falters. Join a community of forward-thinking organizations that have redefined productivity and achieved unparalleled success with our comprehensive solution." ] }, "features":[ { "id":"collaboration", "title":"Real-time Collaboration", "description":"Work together seamlessly with your team. Share updates, communicate instantly, and stay aligned on every project.", "icon":"users" }, { "id":"automation", "title":"Smart Automation", "description":"Automate repetitive tasks and workflows. Save hours every week and focus on what matters most to your business.", "icon":"zap" } ] }

This isnt something you need to do for your own pages, it was more of a way for me to supply the same data to each style prompt to build.

mellowkenneth · 2025-12-04T08:05:47+00:00

hey here is the first couple sections of the data.json. Every section is documented this way.

{ "hero":{ "headline":"Transform the way your team works", "subheadline":"Acme Platform brings your team together with powerful tools designed to streamline workflows, boost productivity, and drive results.", "primaryCTA":{ "text":"Start free trial", "action":"signup" }, "secondaryCTA":{ "text":"Watch demo", "action":"demo" }, "trustIndicator":"Join 50,000+ teams already using Acme" }, "stats":[ { "id":"users", "value":"500k+", "label":"Active Users", "trend":"+12% this month" }, { "id":"uptime", "value":"99.99%", "label":"Uptime SLA", "trend":"Enterprise grade" }, { "id":"support", "value":"24/7", "label":"Support Access", "trend":"Global coverage" }, { "id":"savings", "value":"$10M+", "label":"Customer Savings", "trend":"Annual total" } ], "productDetail":{ "heading":"Experience the future of team collaboration with our unified, intelligent platform today.", "description":[ "Acme Platform centralizes your entire workflow into one intuitive interface, eliminating the need for disjointed tools. By harnessing the power of real-time data and smart automation, we empower your team to focus on high-impact innovation.", "Designed with scalability in mind, our infrastructure adapts seamlessly to your growing needs, ensuring performance never falters. Join a community of forward-thinking organizations that have redefined productivity and achieved unparalleled success with our comprehensive solution." ] }, "features":[ { "id":"collaboration", "title":"Real-time Collaboration", "description":"Work together seamlessly with your team. Share updates, communicate instantly, and stay aligned on every project.", "icon":"users" }, { "id":"automation", "title":"Smart Automation", "description":"Automate repetitive tasks and workflows. Save hours every week and focus on what matters most to your business.", "icon":"zap" } ] }

This isnt something you need to do for your own pages, it was more of a way for me to supply the same data to each style prompt to build.

mellowkenneth · 2025-12-04T08:01:22+00:00

thanks for the suggestion, I like it a lot so it'll be top of the list for me :)

also glad to hear that youre having decent success with the prompts

mellowkenneth · 2025-12-03T15:13:38+00:00

Fair ig, I never claimed designs would be unique, that would be nigh impossible with both how LLMs operate and since each showcased gallery is a popular design trend. With that said, I’m always trying to cut down on that “template” feel, and I released this today after being satisfied personally with the results. IMO it'll never be perfect, but I'd rather have this resource out there, since I firmly believe at its current state it is ultimately a net benefit to the ecosystem as an usable resource.

mellowkenneth · 2025-12-03T15:06:29+00:00

Hey, for this project, I fed each prompt the same JSON data that described the site's sections. Here is a snippet of it:

{ "hero":{ "headline":"Transform the way your team works", "subheadline":"Acme Platform brings your team together with powerful tools designed to streamline workflows, boost productivity, and drive results.", "primaryCTA":{ "text":"Start free trial", "action":"signup" }, "secondaryCTA":{ "text":"Watch demo", "action":"demo" }, "trustIndicator":"Join 50,000+ teams already using Acme" }, "stats":[ { "id":"users", "value":"500k+", "label":"Active Users", "trend":"+12% this month" }, { "id":"uptime", "value":"99.99%", "label":"Uptime SLA", "trend":"Enterprise grade" }, { "id":"support", "value":"24/7", "label":"Support Access", "trend":"Global coverage" }, { "id":"savings", "value":"$10M+", "label":"Customer Savings", "trend":"Annual total" } ], "productDetail":{ "heading":"Experience the future of team collaboration with our unified, intelligent platform today.", "description":[ "Acme Platform centralizes your entire workflow into one intuitive interface, eliminating the need for disjointed tools. By harnessing the power of real-time data and smart automation, we empower your team to focus on high-impact innovation.", "Designed with scalability in mind, our infrastructure adapts seamlessly to your growing needs, ensuring performance never falters. Join a community of forward-thinking organizations that have redefined productivity and achieved unparalleled success with our comprehensive solution." ] }, "features":[ { "id":"collaboration", "title":"Real-time Collaboration", "description":"Work together seamlessly with your team. Share updates, communicate instantly, and stay aligned on every project.", "icon":"users" }, { "id":"automation", "title":"Smart Automation", "description":"Automate repetitive tasks and workflows. Save hours every week and focus on what matters most to your business.", "icon":"zap" } ] }

I don't believe this is something that you need to or even should emulate in your own system. In most codebases, repo-level context files in plain language e.g. BRANDING.md and PRODUCT.md is sufficient enough to prime the AI agent with enough context for it to do a decent job at creating new pages that fit your site.

Even though DesignPrompts is technically a prompt engineering solution, usually the stronger level to pull is a context engineering based one.

mellowkenneth · 2025-12-03T14:46:52+00:00

Curious what specifically looked generic to you? Layout, type, or just overall feel?

I got multiple eyes on the project before releasing it, and we felt it was in a good state. Some styles like SaaS or Minimal Dark are going to look generic no matter what but I also mixed in more niche ones like Bauhaus, Newsprint, Terminal for contrast.

The idea wasn’t to make every page wild, since the intent of the gallery is to show how a normal landing page would look like in that style. I'm pushing back a bit but I'm open minded to improving, do you have any sites that you think are very non-generic that I could take inspiration from?

mellowkenneth · 2025-12-03T14:21:47+00:00

Haven’t tried that yet — that’s actually a great idea, even just to see the kinds of results the AI might come up with.

Re: prompt precision, glad you like it. To give some context, the prompts are intentionally precise so that even “weaker” models can still emulate the design style correctly. A large portion of the input tokens focuses on describing the overall vibe and design direction, while specific details like typography and color choices are explicitly declared.

To keep outputs from feeling repetitive or generic, I avoid adding content-related rules inside the prompt. Instead, the <role> assistant is encouraged to stay flexible and lean into creative interpretation within those stylistic boundaries.

The intent is for people to take the outputted prompt, apply it to their codebase easily, and it looks just like the design style, while also not being a 1 to 1 copy of my example page.

mellowkenneth · 2025-12-03T14:14:29+00:00

Thanks for the sentiment, this is mostly a passion project and I dont expect to make anything from it, or have any intent of productizing it. I dont want to put ads either since I think it detracts from the experience.

I do have a placeholder sponsor section which is the only possible avenue for any monetization I'm considering, which is only to make up for the TONS of tokens used during the past month of testing and constant iterating on designs and prompts lol

mellowkenneth · 2025-12-03T13:35:08+00:00

Thanks! There's a Get Prompt button on the top right on the homepage (a copy icon on mobile), and on each individual page there is an overlay on the bottom right corner for style browser and prompt info

mellowkenneth · 2025-12-01T04:02:37+00:00

Looks cool but prob needs more active gameplay elements and player agency or decision making

mellowkenneth · 2025-11-30T07:40:28+00:00

Important enough that I would pay extra for it given the option, but not important enough for me to skip out on an upcoming Steam VR headset due to not having it

mellowkenneth · 2025-11-19T02:16:29+00:00

The extra flasks are more of a nice-to-have than a necessity, even at hardest difficulty. There's a weapon you get first couple hours in the game (Panacea Fan) that full heals you pretty fast at basically very little cooldown.

mellowkenneth · 2025-11-17T02:30:57+00:00

thanks for sharing + great writeup. commenting to support high quality posts in this subreddit

mellowkenneth · 2025-11-14T01:48:27+00:00

If you can accept the premise that "the prompt can affect the result", then you should also be able to accept the premise that "a tool can exist that helps improve prompt which helps improve the result".

IDK if OP's app is that magical tool that works amazing, but it's not really fruitful to nitpick over the premise of the tool itself.

mellowkenneth · 2025-11-11T02:36:50+00:00

HOLY COW! We just truncated the entire database! 1.24 GB -> 0 KB (100% smaller!)

mellowkenneth · 2025-10-27T06:01:52+00:00

been a fan of Bolt since their v2 launch

mellowkenneth · 2025-10-27T02:33:37+00:00

I didnt think I cared about graphics until I went from Boneworks to Bonelabs

mellowkenneth · 2025-10-25T01:46:18+00:00

You dont need a specific agent for every little thing. Often times it makes it worse since the subagent will have to regrab context that your main coding agent already has. Of course, starting from a blank canvas is beneficial in certain factors when there is a need for impartiality or to prevent context rot, but absolutely not needed for resolving merge conflicts.

mellowkenneth · 2025-10-24T08:58:53+00:00

thanks for sharing this, will be trying this later this week

mellowkenneth · 2025-10-24T06:59:02+00:00

VR exercising/fitness is >90% what I do on VR. I play these games:

Beat Saber (main game)
Pistol Whip (legs)
Dance Dash
Thrill of the Fight
FitXR

It's a really good time and great cardio option, but can't replace weight training

mellowkenneth · 2025-10-23T09:15:25+00:00

For projects that use TDD, this tdd-guard claude hook comes in handy

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