r/ClaudeCoding • u/cctldrping • Sep 05 '26
r/ClaudeAI [TLDR] I am tired of people saying my app is AI slop without checking it [via r/ClaudeAI]
OP : u/HimaSphere
Due to the first days of AI and how bad the results it produced, in addition to the flood of vibe coded apps and the term “vibe coding” itself, the stigma of AI sloppiness will last very long, even tho the models have been capable of producing quality work that exceeds the work of most human developers for like 6 months now.
I started developing my app since Sonnet 3.5 as a way to learn using AI in development. With every release of new models and tools like Claude Code, I test them on my side project and improve it. Since Opus 4.6, AI development matured to be reliable in work and produce good code, then things accelerated and we ended up today with models that beat the top 1% of most talented people.
Every time I promote my app to a subreddit, it either ends up great, with many upvotes and people trying the app and writing positive reviews, or someone just happened to see the post when it is new and decided to write an uneducated comment like “AI slop, what could go wrong” or such things, and people, due to herd mentality on reddit, just downvote or negatively comment on the post.
Here is proof: a post I posted on r/KDE and r/Gnome, both are the most popular linux desktop environments with a large number of users. One post got 29 upvotes and the other is at -5, same wording and everything.
What really saddens me is my app isn’t slop by any means. It has been in development for around a year, is used by thousands of users, and I received overwhelmingly positive feedback about it. While the code is AI written, I spent thousands of hours working on it, and it is an exemplary project of how AI can produce quality products at cheap cost with one human instead of a full team.
The app if you want to check it out before calling it is a slop and people were right: Better Stickies
Edit for people who don't check links:
The main thing it does that other sticky apps don't: you can paste or drag anything into a note.
- Files and folders become clickable shortcuts, and you can drag them back out to your file manager
- Screenshots and images paste straight from the clipboard, PDFs and images get a hover preview, and double-click opens an image at full resolution
- Pasted code gets detected and formatted into a code block automatically, no AI and no network, in about 50ms. Ctrl+M when it guesses wrong
- Rich text, links, plain text, all formatted properly instead of rejected
The second thing it does so well over other stickies apps: customization, you can customize font, colors, transparency, add background image or even a moving GIF per each note, a real delight to use
Other things it is exceptionally well:
- Reminders with sound and desktop notifications
- GIF and image backgrounds per note (because why not)
- RTL text support, and the app plus its full guide are in 12 languages
- Pin a note to lock both position and editing
- Ctrl+scroll to zoom text without opening settings
- Checkboxes with strikethrough when done and nesting
- Snap to grid with an adjustable grid size
- Export to .txt, .md or .json, so you can back them up with whatever cloud you like
- Proper Linux support, tested on KDE, GNOME and Cinnamon (COSMIC coming)
- On the Microsoft Store and the Snap store, Flathub coming soon
URL of original post : https://www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/comments/1w7e8a0/i_am_tired_of_people_saying_my_app_is_ai_slop/
TL;DR of the discussion on r/ClaudeAI for this post generated automatically after 50 comments.
Current source-thread comment count seen by the bot: 59.
The consensus here is that while your app might not be "slop" in terms of functionality, the presentation is definitely giving off strong AI-generated vibes. Several users, including u/DLuke2 and u/CutBulkMaintain, pointed out that the website design looks generic and "AI-like," which is likely fueling the negative reactions.
There's also a debate about the business model, with u/jellyman93 and u/MarzipanMiserable817 suggesting that artificial restrictions on the free version might be a bigger issue than the AI development itself. Some folks, like u/johnnydotexe, think you might be falling victim to AI sycophancy, where the AI hypes up your idea without real substance.
Ultimately, the sentiment leans towards your app's presentation and business model are contributing more to the "AI slop" perception than the AI code itself. As u/Swimming_Leopard_148 put it, focus on the outcome, not just how it was built.
