I typically dislike posts that start by claiming a specific service or product is cooked.
But mockup sites are cooked. Every one of them.
You know the ones. Upload a screenshot, get it rendered on a MacBook mockup or an iPhone frame or floating in some minimal workspace with perfect lighting and a succulent.
They served a purpose once. When showing work meant photographing screens or setting up elaborate product shots, these tools were useful.
Not anymore.
Claude Code can generate a fully functional prototype faster than you can navigate to a mockup site, upload an image, and download the result.
Not a picture of a prototype. An actual working prototype.
Why would I create a fake picture of software on a fake laptop when I can just build the actual software?
The entire category was built on the assumption that creating real things was hard and creating pictures of fake things was easy.
That assumption is dead.
This isn’t about mockup sites being bad. They’re fine at what they do. It’s that what they do doesn’t matter anymore.
The gap between “show a picture of the idea” and “build the actual idea” has collapsed to zero in most cases.
When building the real thing is faster than faking it, the faking industry disappears.
Mockup sites are the first obvious casualty. They won’t be the last.
Entire categories of work built on the assumption that real creation is hard are about to discover it isn’t.