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I’m Building Landing Pages in ~20 Seconds Now! How vibehtml Changed My Workflow

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I’m Building Landing Pages in ~20 Seconds Now (Yep) — How vibehtml Changed My Workflow

I’ve been tinkering with vibehtml for a while, and I still catch myself doing a double take when it spits out a decent landing page before I’ve even finished my coffee.

If you’ve built a “simple” landing page in 2026, you know the trap: you start with good intentions and end up bootstrapping an entire small universe.

  • create-next-app
  • Tailwind config
  • routing you don’t really need
  • builds, bundlers, plugins, “just one more optimization”
  • and somehow a node_modules folder that looks like it’s trying to eat your SSD

All that… for a page that’s basically a headline, some features, a pricing table, and a CTA.

At some point I just thought: why are we doing this to ourselves?

What if landing pages were just… HTML again?

That’s the whole point of vibehtml. Not “HTML-ish.” Not a template system that eventually becomes HTML.

Just a single, plain HTML file with Tailwind classes baked in.

The workflow is almost embarrassingly straightforward:

  1. You describe what you want (like: “SaaS landing page with pricing, testimonials, clean and modern”)
  2. You wait ~20 seconds
  3. You get one HTML file
  4. You open it in a browser, tweak it, ship it

No build step. No framework scaffolding. No dependency drama. Just: here’s the page.

Why I leaned into the boring solution

For a long time my default answer was “React.” For everything. Even when the thing didn’t really deserve it.

But most landing pages are static. They don’t need hydration. They don’t need client-side routing. They don’t need a fancy state management setup. They need to:

  • load fast
  • look good
  • be easy to edit
  • not break when a framework updates

So vibehtml generates clean, semantic HTML with Tailwind utility classes already in place. If you want to change a headline or spacing? Open it in any editor and do it. If you want a tiny bit of interactivity? Drop in a script tag. You’re not “working against the framework” because there isn’t one.

The “vibe coding” part (which is honestly the fun part)

The generation isn’t perfect — nothing is — but it’s surprisingly good at understanding the feel you’re aiming for.

I started calling it vibe coding because you’re not describing implementation details. You’re describing the mood:

  • “Make it feel premium”
  • “Corporate but not soulless”
  • “Startup-y, gradients, but don’t make it look like 2018 crypto Twitter”

And somehow it gets close more often than it misses.

The real win is iteration speed. If you hate the layout, you don’t start rearranging components for an hour. You just regenerate. Twenty seconds later you’re looking at a totally different direction. It’s like rapid prototyping without the part where you slowly lose your will to live.

What surprised me while building it

The hardest part wasn’t plugging in AI. The hardest part was not overengineering the whole thing.

Every developer instinct kicks in:

  • “We should make this a full framework”
  • “What about a plugin system?”
  • “What if we add a build pipeline?”
  • “We could support 12 render targets!”

But the whole reason this works is because it stays simple. The output is always the same: one HTML file you can ship immediately.

I did add an image studio because landing pages are better with visuals, and I put together a components library so you can mix sections without starting from zero. But the core rule didn’t change: export → one file → done.

Who this is (and isn’t) for

If you’re building something with real app complexity — auth, dashboards, dynamic content, heavy interactivity — you’re probably still going to want a proper framework.

But for:

  • marketing pages
  • product launches
  • portfolio sites
  • quick MVP landing pages
  • side projects you want to ship this weekend

…it’s kind of perfect.

My workflow lately has basically been:

  • open vibehtml
  • type what I want
  • export
  • throw it on GitHub Pages
  • move on with my life

No config files to babysit. No dependency upgrades. No weird build errors that show up right before you want to deploy.

If you want to play with it

I put it up at vibehtml.com if you’re curious. You can start from templates or just generate something from scratch.

It’s a funny feeling going “backwards” to plain HTML in 2026 — but honestly, for landing pages, the old way still holds up. We just got distracted by the tooling arms race.

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