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points by thousand_nights 2 days ago | 0 comments

that is one of the most unhinged landing pages i've ever seen, it looks like a vibe coded claude mess that somehow raised 100M

is no one looking at what they're releasing anymore? do people just not care? i guess they don't have to if some intern can just prompt "make cool website for our useless company" and then 100M appears at your door from eager VCs

[–] whatthejesus 2 days ago

I think the hardest thing for me is all these sites and services coming out with phrases like: “Trust and govern every answer” or “Bring BI to where people work” or “self-serve in plain language” or “Trust and control behind every answer”

I’m like, what the f*k. We’re busy doing this shit for a little-hundred-mil?

Do we REALLY need these little guide notebooks? Everyone has AI just, I dunno, stuff the shit in SQLite and generate a graph.

One more thing: how many f*king insights do companies need? This shit is like analysis paralysis.

Keep it simple people, don’t pay for this crap. If you need to gather all your little magical documents, maybe it’s time to consider cleaning out the attic instead.

[–] RugnirViking 1 day ago

the best part is how they don't help at all for the hard part (collecting and curating high quality data) and instead help with the part any intern with python and a stem undergraduate could have done already (make a pretty graph)

armed with the free version of chatgpt, pretty much anyone capable of understanding or composing the question can summon such a graph nowadays, given the data.

[–] readdit 2 days ago

I think it looks cool.

[–] viraptor 2 days ago

The massive lag and jitter as I try to scroll down doesn't feel very cool. It somehow gets better a few screens down, but still...

Also it takes a few screens to figure out what is it even that they do.

[–] spike021 2 days ago

scrolls fine for me in an iPhone.

[–] viraptor 2 days ago

It doesn't on Firefox

[–] arcticbull 2 days ago

Half of the boxes overlap at least on Safari, it's actually just broken.

The Show NexaCorp Q3 sales box, Slack box and Hex CLI box is half cut off on the right so you can't click the Codex tab, then scrolling down the "vability" which I assume is observability is cut off to the left, and the "adiness" box overlaps "Flexible by design” which I guess fair enough lol.

Worst of all they committed the cardinal sin of hijacking scrolling. Please for the love of god do not hijack scrolling.

[–] IsTom 2 days ago

The way it's slightly off-center is unpleasant

[–] BobbyTables2 2 days ago

It’s flashy, but nearly completely devoid of any substance.

[–] woah 2 days ago

Do you think that they raised the money based only on this website?

[–] nvme0n1p1 2 days ago

Here's a quote from TFA

> See, we were founded in 2019, making us a pre-AI company (ew!).

I'd wager the website is just the most obvious symptom of the deeper problem.

[–] slantedview 1 day ago

It's like they asked an AI to throw together every possible flourish into a single page.

[–] rightbyte 1 day ago

I dunno. Maybe the value is in the data siphon from gullible companies trusting Hex with their data.

[–] vanuatu 2 days ago

Darn, i liked their old site better

[–] oefrha 2 days ago

I’ve seen this terrible mix of sans serif and serif italics in titles from /frontend-design one too many times. What the hell is with that?

[–] rib3ye 2 days ago

the model didn't just invent those design elements without training data.

[–] shimman 1 day ago

It's the generic tech landing boiler plate page with a very poor color palette. Outside of the colors it's looks very non offense.

What's the issue?

[–] paxy 2 days ago

Definitely unhinged, but in a somewhat interesting way. It's like they made "AI slop" into a design language and decided to play with it. You can easily tell when a website is low-effort one-shot Claude output, and this isn't that.

[–] goosejuice 2 days ago

As much as I hate to say it, did anyone ever care beyond a few employees? Get rid of them and well..