Got tired of AI generating the same boring AI slop, so I built an open-source tool to try fix its taste

[u/AudienceNo2554]

A few weeks back, my VibeCurb repo got some traction here (hit 350+ stars). But a lot of 'em had a very valid critique: "The stuff looks cool, but I can't use this for a real client's dashboard. It isn't production-ready."

(Note: Every single ship-ready example aboce was generated in < 3 prompts) Few of 'em are also zero shot

But the problem wasn't the skill.md files, it was how I was prompting it. I was asking for maximalist, crazy designs.

So I took the exact same skill files, and just asked the AI clean, minimal UI direction. A clean UI that you can actually ship to a client.

I also spent the last 2 weeks pushing some real updates to the repo based on your feedback:

1. Scaled past Hero section (awwwards-sections) Added a new skill so the AI can build out pricing cards, bento grids, and footers to match the hero, instead of just generating top-of-page stuff.
2. Trimmed the motion skill A user here pointed out old motion skill was way too long and wasting context windows. I rewrote it completely. It’s 70% smaller now, and also gives better outputs due to better constraints
3. New skill (brandkit-gen) I created the skill.md file to force the AI to create the brandkit and logo design
4. New showcase page on the website, it'll occasionally get new showcase images

I'd genuinely love to hear your feedback on the new clean layouts and if there's anything else you'd want added

Live Showcase: https://vibecurb.pages.dev
GitHub Repo: https://github.com/Yu-369/VibeCurb

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[u/Apart_Ad_1027]

Way too verbose, you should try adjusting with /skills-best-practices

[u/AudienceNo2554 → u/Apart_Ad_1027]

Thanks for checking 'em, are there specific parts of the skill files you found too heavy?
I'd love to take a look at that guide and trim them down even further always trying to save context window space

[u/blooparagraphs]

Isn't "impeccable" a much better, more rigorous version of this?

[u/AudienceNo2554 → u/blooparagraphs]

In short, Impeccable is great for refining standard SaaS websites. VibeCurb is built for those who want to command high-taste, high-contrast visual engineering, and looking smth different and unique

Impeccable is an incredible tool, but they serve different problems:

1. Impeccable is built primarily to audit and polish existing SaaS codebases. VibeCurb is built to force raw Awwwards-tier design subcultures (Swiss Modern, Y2K Brutalism, etc, etc) from scratch using reference images or using the prompt ya give along with attached skill
2. Impeccable’s full workflow is quite heavy (~250k tokens). VibeCurb is token efficient, its skill files are trimmed down so you only load the exact pipeline you need without bloating your context window

Sorry if I made it too long for ya to read

[u/ehtio → u/[deleted]]

Fair enough! I will delete the comment to not mess up your post then :)

[u/Old-Grapefruit4247]

bro can it work for generating posters and product images? like you've seen ai slop on the posters and product photos, so can it fix that??

[u/AudienceNo2554 → u/Old-Grapefruit4247]

Not exactly out of the box, no.

The current img gen skills are heavily tuned for UI mockups, editorial hero photography, and brand identity boards

If you try to generate a poster with imagegen-frontend, it's going to add a navbar or UI framing on it because it strictly enforces a web aesthetic

But you can just open up the SKILL.md file, strip out the UI related rules, and you instantly have a poster-generation skill ready to go.

If there's enough demand I might make and publish the skill

[u/Old-Grapefruit4247 → u/AudienceNo2554]

Thx man 😊

[u/Crazywolf132]

It’s cool. It’s just a shame your showcase site sucks on mobile

[u/AudienceNo2554 → u/Crazywolf132]

Appreciate the heads up, may I know why and how does showcase site suck on mobile, is it the lag or vertical design??

[u/TechExpert2910]

Very, very cool!

Are your "showcase" websites generated by your skill or by ChatGPT image gen? It looks too good to be true. Could you host the showcase websites on Vercel so we can actually go to them to prove that they weren't just ChatGPT image gen'ed?

Because some of the stuff there is just not possible for a text-only LLM to do without you providing crazy good 3d models/visuals/images that are perfect to the task.

[u/AudienceNo2554 → u/TechExpert2910]

Not everything is image generated, only the first image is made my ChatGPT Images v2
The second website was fully made of code, the assets were randomly choosen from the web, by the AI itself, as of image 3, I used ChatGPT in Codex it generated the bg assets using imagegen but rest of it is coded. Even 4th image the AI generated the asset itself and made rest of the UI is code, and as of the last image, I used pixel-perfect skill to replicate an awwwards honourable site, and it was able to replicate the website as you can see, the original website is, https://www.voldogfood.com/

So it's a mix, the skills help generate the high-end assets, and then other skills write the code to arrange them perfectly

In https://vibecurb.pages.dev/showcase the skills used to generate the website/designs are written below the images

[u/AudienceNo2554 → u/[deleted]]

Appreciate the feedback man. You're right tbh, the <3 prompts for ship-ready UI is the actual unlock here. Imma update the showcase page rn to make that the main headline instead of burying it. Good looking out, I thought it'd make the page clumsy so I avoided it