I Am Going to De-Slop the Indie Web. Here Is the Plan.

Vibe coding won. In 2026 it is the default way indie hackers ship, and one analysis found YC's latest batch shipping 95 percent AI generated code. The building problem is solved. A new one took its place: everything now looks the same, and the same look reads as sketchy.

I am a product designer who ships AI native apps solo. For the next month I am going to do one thing in public, every day: take the slop out of the indie web and show my work.

Why me, why this

I have spent eleven years making software look like a company stands behind it. The thing that crowd cannot do is the exact thing I do without thinking. So instead of writing one more "add whitespace" post, I am going to score real apps, name the tells, and hand over the fix.

What you will get, daily

• The tells, named and pinned, not vibes. Start with why your app looks AI generated and the 12 tells that out your app as vibe coded.
• The data, not my opinion. What 1,590 launches reveal about the slop problem.
• The fix, in your tool, without hiring a designer. Make an AI built app look legit.
• Teardowns. Real apps, live scored. Reply with yours and it might go first.

The bet

Building is cheap now. Being trusted is not. The founders who win the next year will not be the ones who shipped fastest. They will be the ones whose work did not get written off as slop before anyone tried it.

I am going to prove that the gap between "I built something real" and "it looks real" is a checklist, not a talent you were born without. Every day this month, one post, one step closer.

Follow along. If you want your app scored while I do it, run it through auditmy.design. Day one starts now.