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Website Teardowns
01
Design & Development Studio4.8

Lifthill.Studio

Let's talk about 'We create with the heart in mind.' This tagline sounds like it was generated by an AI that read too many LinkedIn motivational posts. What does it even mean? Your heart is literally always in mind — it's anatomy. Meanwhile, you're asking people to join a 'movement' for the 'Right to Timelessness' which is just... wanting to hide clocks?

02
Personal Portfolio & Brand5.3

ThomasGeelens.com

"After a decade of chasing algorithms, I'm done. The comparison game, the person before the work. That's not for me anymore." Brother, you LEFT social media six months ago and you're acting like you escaped a cult. Meanwhile, your entire website is a glorified Spotify playlist with album covers.

03
Mobile App Landing Page5.8

GetDreamAM.app

Let's talk about this 'Engineered for 3AM' thing. Thomas, buddy, you know what else is engineered for 3AM? A notepad. A voice memo app that already ships with the iPhone. But sure, we definitely needed a WHOLE NEW APP with a subscription tier and credit system to solve the extremely pressing problem of people being too lazy to hit 'stop recording' themselves.

04
Advocacy & Cause Website3.8

RightToTimelessness.com

The "Founding Phase" badge with 37 supporters is doing SO much heavy lifting here. "Be one of the first 100. Your name will be remembered." Remembered by whom? The other 99 people who also really hate looking at their status bar? You've got milestone unlocks like it's a Kickstarter for basic advocacy actions you could already do today.

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