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Drop Your Challenge Submission Here - v1

Nikoloz Turazashvili (@axrisi) on April 01, 2026

Built something for a DEV Challenge but feel like not enough people saw it? This post is for exactly that. Sometimes great submissions get buried...

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FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ • Apr 7

It's not really a project, it is more of contributing.

I contribute to Forem with a specific PR because I notice that Forem has been slow lately, so I optimized it where the latency for Forem is non existent:

April Fools Challenge Submission ☕️🤡

FrancisTRᴅᴇᴠ (っ◔◡◔)っ

Apr 7

Forem (Dev.to) is slow, so I del...optimized it.

#showdev #devchallenge #418challenge #discuss

4 min read

I would love to receive feedback on how to make Forem Faster.

Nikoloz Turazashvili (@axrisi) • Apr 1

I go first ;)

April Fools Challenge Submission ☕️🤡

Nikoloz Turazashvili (@axrisi)

Apr 1

BrewOps: I built a production-grade HTCPCP server because nobody else would

#showdev #devchallenge #418challenge #jokes

8 min read

Dickson Kanyingi • Apr 4

🫖 The Useless Machine™
A satirical, high-fidelity enterprise SaaS dashboard that solves absolutely nothing-beautifully.

Built for the DEV April Fools Challenge, it presents as a premium productivity suite with 22+ "features" that actively betray users: AI that "fixes" code by renaming everything to teapot, buttons that physically run away from your cursor, a 3D mascot that judges your productivity, and a 4-phase Chaos Engine that escalates from subtle UI wobbles to full simulated BSOD. Oh, and it's RFC 2324 compliant—every error is HTTP 418.

Submission: Useless Machine DEV_LINK
Live: Try Useless Machine Here

Looking for:
-Feedback on which easter eggs landed, whether the chaos phases feel appropriately escalating, and if the Larry Mode (type "larry" anywhere) made you laugh or just confused you.
-Also genuinely curious if the Three.js eye-tracking mascot is delightful or deeply unsettling. And the Self-Destruct button... did you find it? 🫖

Nikoloz Turazashvili (@axrisi) • Apr 4

maaan, these sounds on your website drive me crazy. :DD

anxiety levels ⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️⬆️

Dickson Kanyingi • Apr 4

Lmaooo that’s the Premium Chaos™ experience working exactly as intended 😭🔥
If your anxiety isn’t at least Phase 4, are you even using enterprise software??

But fr, thanks for checking it out 😂 I might add a “coward mode” soon with fewer jump scares… or make it worse, haven’t decided yet 🫖

Lucy • Apr 3

ToxicAI – AI Code Roaster 💀

An AI-powered code reviewer that roasts your code using Google Gemini, generating brutal developer feedback with selectable personalities and intensity levels.

toxic-ai-code-reviewer.vercel.app/

Nikoloz Turazashvili (@axrisi) • Apr 4

I couldn't prompt inject it :(

Lucy • Apr 4

Yeah that’s actually intentional 😄
I structured the prompt pretty tightly so it stays in “roast mode” and doesn’t get overridden easily.
It’s not really meant to be a secure system though, just more of a controlled April Fools toy that just behaves consistently 💀

Muhammad Usman • Apr 6

A website that doesn't want you there.

No content. No product. No reason to exist. Just a letter addressed directly to whoever was unfortunate enough to find it asking them, with increasing desperation, to please close the tab.

April Fools Challenge Submission ☕️🤡

Muhammad Usman

Apr 3

Please. I'm Begging You. Close The Tab.

#showdev #devchallenge #418challenge #jokes

2 min read

venkatesh m • Apr 2 • Edited

eslint-plugin-bad-vibes
Built an ESLint plugin that flags every good frontend practice and tells you to stop. 6 rules, 38 tests, zero value.
Some favorites:
no-semantic-html wants you to replace every <button> with <div onClick>
no-keyboard-handlers flags onKeyDown because keyboard users are 'statistically insignificant.'
prefer-positive-tabindex requires tabIndex of at least 100 so focus order reflects 'business priority.'
The error messages are written in peak corporate doublespeak. That's the actual joke.
dev.to/vmvenkatesh78/eslint-plugin...
Curious which error message hits closest to home for you

Edit:
Attaching the post link here : dev.to/vmvenkatesh78/eslint-plugin...

Nicoleta Mocanu • Apr 2 • Edited

Here is my submission... I built a production-grade Kubernetes dashboard for monitoring tea.
Project title : KuberneTEAS: Enterprise-Grade Tea Orchestration for the Post-Coffee Era ☕
What it does: KuberneTEAS is a cloud-native orchestration layer for the common teapot. It brings the full stress of a SEV-1 production outage to the simple act of steeping a tea bag.
Link to my submission: dev.to/nicoleta_mocanu_71e5fe43f/k...
Would love feedback on: does the Larry Masinter tribute land for the 418 category? And did you find the easter eggs? 🫖

Muhammad Ahmad • Apr 7

My submission: SHIPPED™ — [shipped-enterprise.netlify.app/]. It's a 3-screen enterprise SaaS parody. Screen 1 is a fake virus warning you can't escape. HTTP 418 runs the entire app.

April Fools Challenge Submission ☕️🤡

Muhammad Ahmad

Apr 7

SHIPPED™ — I Built an Enterprise AI Platform That Generates the Illusion of Progress

#showdev #devchallenge #418challenge

3 min read

capscode • Apr 10

VegaAI - The Self-Driving Agile Team

dev.to/capscode/vegaai-the-self-dr...

Vega in sanakrit meaning: speed, velocity, or momentum.

Vega-AI is an AI-powered development platform designed to replicate how real software teams work — not just generate code, but execute in structured, disciplined agile workflows.
Instead of one-shot outputs, Vega-AI enables AI agents to collaborate like a real team:

🧠 Product Manager → defines features & requirements
📋 Scrum Master → plans and manages sprints
💻 Developer → writes and commits code
🧪 QA → tests and validates outputs
All work happens sprint-by-sprint, giving users full control over execution and progress.