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10slop score / 100
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Is joshwcomeau.com built or slop?

Slopdar scanned joshwcomeau.com and gave it a Slop Score of 10/100 (Hand-Crafted). 3 AI / vibe-coding tells were found. These are signals, not proof.

“This is what websites looked like before the great slop flood.”

Caught on camera
Screenshot of joshwcomeau.com
The usual suspects
Next.jsVercel

The receipts

3 tells found
01
lucide-react icons+8
The default icon set shipped with most AI-generated UIs.
Default asset
02
Stock Next.js setup+6
Next.js with no apparent customisation of the default scaffold.
Default asset
03
Hosted on Vercel+6
Vercel hosting headers were present.
Stack tell
Signs a human was here
✓
Real site pages-4
Links to genuine pages (about, blog, pricing, docs) suggest real effort.
Human signal
✓
Links to GitHub-3
A real GitHub link points to actual source or a real person.
Human signal
✓
Considered metadata-2
A real meta description plus Open Graph tags show care.
Human signal
✓
Custom favicon-2
A real, non-default favicon, a small sign someone cared.
Human signal

Slopdar reports signals, not proof. A high score means a site smells templated, not that no human was ever involved.

Fix your slop

up to 8 points on the table

Every tell below can be cleared. Do it by hand, or copy the fix prompt and paste it into whatever built this (Claude Code, Cursor, Lovable, you name it). Then re-scan and watch the score drop.

01
lucide-react iconsclears +8
lucide is fine on its own. It reads as a tell when everything else is also default. Consider a different icon set or a few custom icons.
Quick winshuman signs the radar rewards
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Custom typographyA deliberately chosen web font reads as a human decision.

The prompt only removes the tells Slopdar can see. Making the site genuinely good is still on you.