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Comment by tezclarke | Hacker News Reader

AI slop - you've sent me the same message on linkedin and you vibe coded that two minutes ago.

I wasn't sure you'd see the comment here (didn't know you posted it yourself). Was just trying to connect to learn from you.

Really quite disturbing that you can now generate this kind of slop in minutes.

https://pestpro.app/blog/

Let's be honest here, why did you generate this just now, are you hoping for work building mobile apps, or are you sincerely expecting to run a pest control SaaS business with AI generated blog posts and a download link that doesn't work?

You've done the incredibly easy bit (making a prototype), do you intend to do the hard work of building a business over 10+ years?

Hey! I have no absolutely no clue who OP (BigBalli) is. I checked this guy's profile out. He's a member since 2012, I don't think he meant bad at all.

I'm personally anti-AI. I checked out his app, and whether vibe-coded or not, it looks very well done. And the app actually has both offline mobile apps + web apps. And it's free? And FWIW, pestpro.app was registered ~1 month ago.

Agreed, reaction from OP is concerning to say the least

thanks

FWIW didn't mean to hurt/insult(?)

If you click on "download button" which should open the link to the App Store you will notice that is a broken link. This is why is ai slop.

Spinning a web like that today is 30 minutes of Claude Code prompting.

But like it or not, the gatekeeping of Apple and Google means that pushing an app to their stores is days work and wait time.

So yeah, reeks of ai slop.

apple still needs to review it. That's why I said "literally just now".

On top of the app store link not working, the privacy and terms links also 404.

Also why is it free? Presumably the data is the product.

yeah, apple still has to review it... hence the broken link

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