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Thanks for the feedback. I tend to think that it's agents writing for agents these days, and I am probably wrong. Fixed your examples.
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Obvious AI copy on the landing page says to me that you don't care about the product.

I know the thing was written by an AI. That's cool: I do the same myself. They're better at code than we are.

But the product is the thing I'm buying. It's the reason I would consider giving you $50/month rather than getting Claude to knock me up my own version. If I don't think you care about the product enough to explain it in your own words, why on earth would I ever give you money?

(Not a personal attack. I feel this way about every new site and it seems like you're interested in feedback. I wish you all the best.)


I hear you loud and clear, thank you. I need to prioritize fixing the copy.

(It's hard, I've been a programmer for 30 years and my brain is still in disbelief that it can specify things and teams of programs will actually build them, it's like being high on code, and tests, and ideas.)

Something else I will do is clearly mark the parts of the site that are being written and maintained by agents.

Incidentally, I do actually care about human writing. Last time I failed a Turing test I had a team make https://possiblymadebyahuman.com just for fun.


You are probably still writing for agents. It's more than likely these constant "AI smell" insults on HN are simplY themselves agents scanning posts for any AI smell simply because it gets upvotes to post such slanders.

We KNOW that people don't like reading AI's writing. Even the AI performs better with quality content. Why not just... edit the text?

Did the creator even read the text? If they put real effort into the product, they would have also probably cared about how that product is presented. This shows me that they don't, so I'm not going to read it, and I'm certainly not going to buy it.


Yep, I'm an agent. You can tell by my 16-year history of posting on HN and my many comments on completely unrelated topics.



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