I'm being very pedantic here in true HN fashion, but at most it's the default UI of VC-funded B2B SaaS startups. 95% of the internet-using world never comes across shadcn UIs.
not at all, Shadcn has been a game changer for all young, bootstrapped and individual developers. Who now have a professional looking UI available for free and easy to use.
There are echo chambers and availability biases, it takes a bigger person to know that they live in one.
The Bootstrap of the 2020s. Just the default components people copy-paste into Tailwind-based SaaS apps.
A set of components to build web UIs out of
https://ui.shadcn.com/
A customizable component library built on radix.
Not sure why this upsets people, is it because it's popular and therefore bad?
The key piece of the stack it gives you is sensible cross-platform component behaviors to put your styling / branding on to of.
default UI of the internet
I'm being very pedantic here in true HN fashion, but at most it's the default UI of VC-funded B2B SaaS startups. 95% of the internet-using world never comes across shadcn UIs.
not at all, Shadcn has been a game changer for all young, bootstrapped and individual developers. Who now have a professional looking UI available for free and easy to use.
There are echo chambers and availability biases, it takes a bigger person to know that they live in one.
It’s also looks like some shit you can make in a weekend. There must have been a boot camp behind pushing it.
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