performative-ui

A satirical React component library by Nathaniel J. Smith (vorpus) mocking the visual tropes of AI/startup landing pages. 27 components, MIT licensed.

Tagline: "Components that signal how oversubscribed your funding round is."

Components

Atoms

• Sparkle — "Add ✦ to any noun to ship it twice as fast."
• GradientText — "When italic isn't billion-dollar enough."
• StatusDot — "Always green, even when it's not."

Primitives

• Button — "We made the button move so you'd click the button."
• EyebrowPill — "Where the model name goes when there's nothing else to say."
• Prompt — "The textarea every AI builder ships instead of explaining what their product does."

Banners

• StickyBanner — "Funding news disguised as utility."

Heroes

• Rotator — "Because saying 'everything' wasn't ambitious enough."
• WordRoll — "All the breadth-flexing of a Rotator, without making the visitor wait for it to type."
• PromptHero — "We replaced the value prop with a text input."
• AsciiHero — "For hackers, by people who follow the right newsletters."

Backgrounds

• Aurora — "Three blobs and a generation defined."
• NodeGraphBackground — "A neural network, conceptually."
• FloatingSparkles — "Magic doesn't ship itself."

Surfaces

• GlassCard — "Backdrop-filter: ambition."
• MockIDE — "Real code is coming. This is the trailer."

Conversation

• ChatBubble — "If it's in a bubble, it must be true."
• TokenStream — "Server-sent events (SSE) were added to the HTML5 spec in 2008 but never used until 2025."
• ChatFAB — "There's no escape now."

Social Proof

• LogoMarquee — "Trusted by everyone you've heard of, including the ones that didn't sign."
• LogoRow — "Static logos are for when you only have six."
• StatCounter — "Numbers that go up are better than numbers that don't."
• CommunityBadge — "Stars are the new MAU."

Pricing & Conversion

• PricingCard — "The middle one is glowing. Choose accordingly."
• BeforeAfter — "On the left: chaos. On the right: us."
• WaitlistForm — "Demand we manufactured ourselves."
• Popover — "Built for conversion, not consent."

Now generally available. npm install performative-ui