Hey guys! Made this new landing page for new client (an AI company).

Long story short, I am trying to build out an AI website builder for local businesses, that generates the sites with AI. Waaaaait before you hit that downvote button, the whole idea is to really focus down, so that the designs look less AI generic (I mean, I think 95% of the time you feel when a site is made with AI right). I think I am getting there, but there's still something missing and I can't quite put the finger on it.

If anyone has a moment, could you check these 4 sites and tell me why I still get that feeling. I feel like I am 90% there on the "wait it's not slop" meter, but want to get the last 10% over the line. These are all one shots (pipeline also searches for business info etc. uses Google Maps API / LLM websearch and whatnot).

Sites:

Afsnis (a bar): https://afsnis-88149.boosterpack.xyz/

Viggos (a coffee place): https://viggos-93794.boosterpack.xyz/

Little Havana (a coffee place): https://little-havana-cafe-95236.boosterpack.xyz/

WhyNot (a cocktail bar / restaurant): https://whynot-gent-gastrobarcock-53698.boosterpack.xyz/

I’ve been experimenting with ecommerce pages that feel more visual, immersive and premium 3d website without making the experience harder to use.

The goal is simple:

• stronger product presentation

• interactive product views

• smoother transitions

• more cinematic storytelling

• better visual hierarchy

• a more premium overall feel

I’m still refining the balance between visual impact, performance and usability.

Short demo attached.

What would you improve first: the layout, interaction, motion, or overall visual direction?

More experiments: aetumi.app

I can’t seem to close clients and I'm hoping to get 2 cents from fellow designers to maybe understand why, and if my website itself is the issue. I have also theorised that the businesses that I cold approach can’t 't afford my services. Because my pitch usually goes well, people like me, they think my websites look good, but i'm yet to actually close a client yet.

Edit: I appreciate all the advice in here. Link to my portfolio is no longer active as I’ve now updated it. Thank you all.

Sharing The work i did for a landing page ,

Worked on illustration , product flows, onboarding , designs colors, graphics and design system

Did I cook 👩‍🍳

You can check it live here: LINK

What do u guys think overall and which one's better ,or should i just drop the idea of the bird

I’ve been refining this roofing website and recently cut back the animations a lot.

Would love feedback on the layout, typography, spacing, and whether anything still feels too generic or over-designed.

Hey everyone, I'm building my web design portfolio and honestly, getting clients is way harder than I thought. I've already created a couple of sites:

https://anthem-music-academy.vercel.app/

https://pinnaya-website.vercel.app/

Check them out to see my work style.

The deal: Free professional website for your business If you're happy with it, all I ask is you recommend me to people you know Word of mouth is all I need to get started. I'm being real - I'm still growing, but I'll put in the work to make sure you get something solid.

If you need a website or know a business that does, DM me. Thanks!

I mean what’s more crazy than my cheap $3000 website has a performance of 95% while a billion dollar platform like amazon shows as 75%.

Google pagespeed is useless, the most inaccurate tool ever from google.

If i test any website it shows different performances like way different one time 48 the other 95.

Lol random rant thought to share

So I tried Claude copilot to explore why the tech bros love it. Everybody is swearing by it on LinkedIn and management keeps pushing it onto me, saying it’s so fast, I’d be saving them $$$$ and myself loads of time!! LinkedIn says I’ll be replaced if I don’t learn AI. So I tried it and described my needs in detail in the chat box. I was trying to build a corporate B2B website. Here’s how my experience went:

Cons:

1. ⁠Website branding elements were a disaster. It was colourised versions of material symbols. The colours it chose were boring and didn’t compliment one another or anything.

2. ⁠Super text heavy with content that read like slop. I had to rewrite my website myself anyway. But atleast I wasn’t starting from scratch.

3. ⁠It asked me to hire a legal team to write the privacy policy.

4. ⁠Asking it to make changes took longer than starting with a Wordpress template.

5. ⁠AI generated illustrations have no logic or sense behind them. Broken tables, arrows pointing to nothing, random elements that don’t need to be there, colours that don’t go.

Pros:

1. ⁠Took 8 hours, wix/wordpress/webflow take atleast 3-4 days for the same amount of work.

2. ⁠Edits are super fast, and debugging is far simpler.

3. ⁠You don’t need to know how to code.

However, am I the only one that still prefers Wordpress/webflow etc?

What’s your opinion? Would you use AI to build websites for your clients? Any success/failure stories of people who switched over? Please share your experiences!

I turned an ecommerce product page into a fully interactive 3D experience (Three.js) — drag & spin the product

Built this drink page fully in 3D with Three.js — the can is live WebGL, drag and spin it, no photos.

I keep hearing "3D on product pages is just slop that hurts conversion**.**" Maybe you're right. So be brutal:

👉 Does this make you more likely to buy — or would you bounce instantly?
👉 Gimmick, or the direction ecommerce should go?

Genuinely want the honest take. Built it with 3D web components from aetumi.app.

We are cooked

What do you think?

I've been experimenting with AI-assisted development for the past few months, and this is one of the first websites I felt comfortable showing to other people.

The site is a landing page for a friend. Claude wrote and refactored a lot of the React/Next.js code, helped with component structure, animations, debugging, responsive layouts, and fixing the million little issues I got stuck on. I used ANTIGRAVITY alongside it to iterate on ideas and prompts, but Claude did most of the heavy stuff while I made the final decisions and my little head :) and stitched everything together.

I'm still learning web development, so I'm honestly not sure if this is actually "good" or if I've just been staring at it for too long.

It's not optimized for phones yet, so if possible, check it out on a desktop/laptop.

Don't hold back. I genuinely learn more from criticism than compliments, brp! ;)

My first website built without any coding knowledge.

Lately i'm using a single prompt to generate a portfolio website to bench model performance in visuals and i'm seeing like quality of work is getting better with each model generation.

All the content made/picked by llm, this is not real company/website any resemblance is purely coincidental.