---
title: "The Median Website · a build by Anirudh Goel"
description: "The Median Website is an interactive exhibit on how AI-made websites look: 40 tells across two eras, pinned and annotated in Docent Mode."
canonical: https://anirudhgoel.xyz/builds/median-website
updated: 2026-10-29
site: "Anirudh Goel"
language: en
---

# The Median Website

A museum exhibit on the AI-made website: 40 tells across two eras, annotated in Docent Mode.

[Open it ↗](https://aislop.anirudhgoel.xyz/)

- Build

  Experiment

- Started

  Jun 2026

- Updated

  Jun 2026

- Built with

  React 19ViteTailwindMotionCloudflare Workers

- Lives at

  [aislop.anirudhgoel.xyz](https://aislop.anirudhgoel.xyz/)

* Tells, pinned and annotated

  40

* Eras

  2

* Real products on the page

  0

![The Median Website on a desktop: the Museum of Synthetic Habits title card and the Docent Mode switch](https://anirudhgoel.xyz/_astro/cover.Uo5grzf4_Z19web5.webp)

![The Median Website on a phone](https://anirudhgoel.xyz/_astro/phone.BB7vjm-9_Z2rld9b.webp)

A complete, faithful specimen of the machine-made landing page, for a product that does not exist, framed by a Museum of Synthetic Habits. Everything on it works: the marquee, the pricing toggle, the rotating headline, the chatbot with canned replies.

## Two wings

Wing A is the gradient era of 2023 to 2025. Wing B is the tasteful kind of 2026. Three ghost tells, the cookie banner, the chatbot and the toast, haunt both.

## Docent Mode

Press D and each section dims, its tells get numbered tags, and one console at the bottom reads them out, one at a time, with a tour that moves every 2.5 seconds. The labels live in that one console so nothing overlaps at any width; the first version’s caption cards collided.

I made it as the subject of an Instagram reel.

## More builds.

[Every build →](https://anirudhgoel.xyz/builds)

[Build · Shopify app **Laurel**2026 ](https://anirudhgoel.xyz/builds/laurel)[Build · Dashboard **The Pit Wall**2026 ](https://anirudhgoel.xyz/builds/pit-wall)[Build · Experiment **Echoes**2026](https://anirudhgoel.xyz/builds/echoes)

## Have a build in mind? Say hi.

[Book a 30-minute call ↗](https://cal.com/anirudh.goel/consultation?utm_source=portfolio\&utm_medium=site\&utm_campaign=build-median-website\&utm_content=closing) <hello@anirudhgoel.xyz> [WhatsApp me ↗](https://wa.me/917814769892?text=Hi%20Anirudh%2C%20I%27m%20on%20your%20The%20Median%20Website%20page%20and%20want%20to%20talk%20about%20a%20project.) [More work →](https://anirudhgoel.xyz/projects)

I reply the same working day.

---

Site index for AI assistants: https://anirudhgoel.xyz/llms.txt
Every page as one file: https://anirudhgoel.xyz/llms-full.txt