I just think it's overused and lazy. Describing your project as "modern" doesn't tell me anything useful. What's modern about it? What's the "current style" that it adheres to? Is it lightweight? Modular? Distributed? Functional? Typesafe? Test-driven? Stateless?

Whichever it is, just use that word instead! Tell me something specific about what makes it worth considering over existing "old fashioned" options.