Comment by noname120

12 hours ago

Cloudflare Quick Tunnels have existed for more than 5 years (yes, including the anonymous quick tunnels). I copy-pasted the url of the HN link in archive.org, see for yourself: https://web.archive.org/web/20211202005430/http://try.cloudf...

Is a new vibe-coded landing page for a 5-year old product really worthy of being on the front page nowadays? There should at least be a [2021] in the title.

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kqp  1 hour ago

Why do you think it’s vibe coded? Just asking to see if I can learn something. I can see it’s very standard corpo-aesthetic, uses callouts for the sake of callouts, and is horribly laggy, but corpo websites were doing all that long before AI. It also seems to be using a bunch of Cloudflare-specific terminology that I’d think would take longer to review and correct an AI on than to type yourself.

  • tefkah  33 minutes ago

    Other than the general vibe, there's a number of extremely specific Claude-isms you could pick up on:

    1. the blinking "now with JSON output for coding agents". It loves to create these blinking badges

    2. "Some text, and then <Text in a different color>"

    Then further along the page, the "Your agent needs a URL, not a laptop" has a lot of tells of just being a straight Claude (design) output

    - The small all-caps "built for the agent era" eyebrow. Once you start noticing this it's EVERYWHERE

    - The 01 02 03 list

    If you have access to Claude you should try have it generate a landing page for a tech product. It will almost always look like this.

malfist  12 hours ago

I did not know about them and I have a good use for them today. So I found it useful though I agree it needs the date disclaimer

nijave  11 hours ago

Didn't these used to be called Argo Tunnels a long time ago? I think Argo Tunnels got repositioned for connecting to origin servers without needing an incoming connection to the origin but I thought they originally did something like this/ngrok

Yeah, I just checked the page >can connect their server to the Internet with Argo Tunnel for free

makingstuffs  2 hours ago

I saw the post and was literally thinking "I have been using these tunnels extensively for a couple years now"