Testing the latest AI tools for prototyping and building simple websites
The article evaluates AI tools for website creation, highlighting Cursor, v0, Lovable, and Bolt.new. v0 is user-friendly, Lovable excels in content, while Bolt.new is easy but less impressive.
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The article discusses the testing of various AI tools for prototyping and building simple websites, specifically focusing on tools like Cursor, v0 by Vercel, Lovable, and Bolt.new. The author, a product designer, aimed to evaluate how these tools could streamline the website creation process for CodeYam, a software simulator. Each tool was assessed based on a consistent prompt to create a landing page for CodeYam, using a screenshot of the existing website for reference. Cursor was noted for its technical depth but was challenging for simple tasks. v0 was praised for its user-friendly interface and feature-rich experience, while Lovable excelled in content generation. Bolt.new was deemed the easiest to use but produced the least impressive results. Overall, the tools provided simple and professional outputs, though none were groundbreaking. The author concluded that while these AI tools can facilitate quick website creation, they may not deliver unique designs. Future tests will explore more complex design requirements and integrations.
- The AI tools tested include Cursor, v0 by Vercel, Lovable, and Bolt.new.
- v0 was highlighted for its user experience and ease of use.
- Lovable was recognized for its strong content generation capabilities.
- Cursor was the most technical but less suitable for simple tasks.
- Bolt.new was the simplest to use but offered basic results.
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11 commentsI've been trying to figure out how they do it. First, Claude3.7 is probably their backend model. Gemini 2.5 Pro is definitely getting there but I'm pretty sure Claude is still king for this kind of work. Second, if you break up the design and then implementation, you get significantly better responses. Finally, you have throw in a bit of what I'm calling stable-diffusion-prompt-isms where you almost excessively drop references to known brands or design philosophies to trigger those 'latent' memories and steer away from the more-basic stuff that seems to otherwise surface.
Gemini seems to now advise you when you’re telling it to do something that may not make sense - first time I’ve really seen a non-Yes Man LLM. It’s more like a Yes-but-are-you-sure man.
If you point it to a site to clone with instructions on what to change, you get very good results in half an hour's work and <5$ spent.
Pretty stiff competition for the bottom end of the web creation/maitainance market for sure.
That seems impossible for any non-trivial project. I may have misinterpreted the idea, but calling it a "simulator" and the video leads me in that direction.
Instruct it to do vanilla js + css + html, no weird/annoying frameworks, and you can whip up something in minutes
Built from the couch: https://www.agile9000.org/
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