Hello, and let’s get this out of the way right now: this is no joke!!
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There are too many useful things out there, time to build something totally useless!! I feel that a unicorn might be born out of this challenge.
Hahah yes VCs should definitely follow #418challenge
Heyy Im a beginner and I only know basic antigravity, html and css, havent started js
Gemini will guide you
Absolutely
To read this brought me grief. But in good faith I want to challenge your understanding of the goals of this coding challenge. "Anti value" explicitly can't intersect with unicorn philosophy. Because how can something "Without value" ever be subsumed by capital?
Would you try to build a unicorn business around the laughter of children? The feeling of sun on skin? The pride felt after a good high five? At least in my opinion, dev encourages us to seek joy that is not measured by the yardstick of value. Thinking outside that box means sitting with the discomfort of finding things that are beautiful, true, and financially worthless. Our lives have this everywhere if you know where to look! It was pop star Jennifer Lopez that held "Love don't cost a thing".
I doubt I made my point well enough to earn agreement. But I'll double down with a call to action nevertheless! Cast off the yardstick of value! Abandon it at the doorway to joy, and don't play with it except to swing it around like a sword, pretending to be a warrior or some such. Are not Unicorns much more beautiful in the fantasies of children than the fantasies of shareholders?
I thought my website crashed. This is the original UI of Dev.to isn't it?😂 @jess @ben
Amazing challenge. Building something useless. I wonder what amazing developers with their highest productivity will make.😅
The original UI was intentionally retro so not totally off
Nice Nailed it. It looks TEA-RRRRRRIFICCCCCC. I think I need to found useless asap now. Making Tea with no tea. Does it sound useless😂?
Did you code this specific page like this or any css attributes that makes it different from other pages.
It’s just different CSS
For a minute there i thought my browser got blasted into the past😂
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@francistrdev not what you had envisioned but hope you still enjoy it!!
Not what anyone envisioned really
@jess @ben I am more surprised to see this and exceed my expectation than what I initially proposed lol. Way better than adding a Rick Roll link on the Dev Icon. Did you guys create this event in a 2 day window or did you guys just have this on standby? Regardless, I am going to enjoy this :D
I am going to reply to that same email I sent you a couple days ago in addition to my questions I have! I will be available until 3pm CDT to check my email and I won't be active until Tuesday if you are planning to respond today. Thanks!
I was so confused when I saw this theme in someone's post lmao
this is so cool. I'm free so I might just build something useless
I'm having Geocities PTSD
(please make this layout official)
That's the idea
Already submitted my entry! I built a ChatGPT prompt that generates the worst financial advice possible — it told me to invest my savings in beanie babies and NFTs of screenshots of my bank account. The code is just a prompt string with instructions to be maximally chaotic. No server needed, no framework, no dependencies. Just vibes and bad decisions. The prompt IS the product. 🫠
The HTCPCP IYKYK prompt sounds hilarious. Building something useless is like a breath of fresh air after all the serious coding. I could see myself trying this during a coffee break, wondering what silly ideas pop up. Isn't it fun to just create for the sake of laughter?
YEAH, I'M PARTICIPATING 🕺🏻
Woohoo!
dev.to/carlosorioli/nietzsche-in-a...
Doooon't forget to drop your silly submissions here:
Drop Your Challenge Submission Here - v1
I just LOVE this UI! This is exactly how dev.to should look!! 😄 Pure magic!! 😆✨
You can always fork our open code and make a permanent version somewhere on the internet
The idea is perfect, but I’d need another life, if I started another open-source project, my family would probably curse me 😄😅
My submission has 46 easter eggs, can you catch them all? ;)
April Fools Challenge Submission ☕️🤡
BrewOps: I built a production-grade HTCPCP server because nobody else would
I am going to build an application that will mine the sun and stars under the earth 😂😂😂, completely nonsense right
I am curious whether Bill Gates FINALLY makes the code public and admits what Windows has beeb since its beginning...😝
I am so entering this one
Loving the submissions so far :P
lets gooo
This TODO list was dedicated to Chuck Norris ( R.I.P. ) because - not so user friendly -
Try it: dev.to/pengeszikra/chuck-norris-to...
Do you think I can reuse my conference demo for the contest? The app is beautiful, super efficient, and perfectly meets the criteria of being completely useless 😄
I think @ben already answered in the comments:
Add some new special functionality for the contest and we'll treat it as eligible
Anyway, it's not so useless; I understood quite a few things while reading it. And by the way, I should have saved my HTBMCP project for this competition ;)
Thanks, indeed I missed it!
SOLD
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Argh, this CSS framework I built would have been perfect for this - can I resubmit even though there's a DEV.TO article already?
Add some new special functionality for the contest and we'll treat it as eligible
Time to build a silly app that everyone will love
The new design looks hilarious! xD
April Fools Challenge Submission ☕️🤡
Depresso-Tron 418: I Built a Bureaucratic Coffee Machine That Cannot Make Coffee
Woohoo!
hi __
That's very modern style.
Thank you! Worked hard on it
HEHEHE!!!
Gemini'll help us XD
A program language, special anti ai obfuscation, project file format created:
dev.to/pengeszikra/mdjs-mordorjs-1mon
// Copyright 2011 The Go Authors. All rights reserved.
// Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style
// license that can be found in the LICENSE file.
package test
import (
"bytes"
"context"
"errors"
"fmt"
"internal/coverage"
"internal/platform"
"io"
"io/fs"
"os"
"os/exec"
"path/filepath"
"regexp"
"slices"
"strconv"
"strings"
"sync"
"sync/atomic"
"time"
)
// Break init loop.
func init() {
CmdTest.Run = runTest
}
const testUsage = "go test [build/test flags] [packages] [build/test flags & test binary flags]"
var CmdTest = &base.Command{
CustomFlags: true,
UsageLine: testUsage,
Short: "test packages",
Long: `
'Go test' automates testing the packages named by the import paths.
It prints a summary of the test results in the format:
followed by detailed output for each failed package.
'Go test' recompiles each package along with any files with names matching
the file pattern "*test.go".
These additional files can contain test functions, benchmark functions, fuzz
tests and example functions. See 'go help testfunc' for more.
Each listed package causes the execution of a separate test binary.
Files whose names begin with "" (including "_test.go") or "." are ignored.
Test files that declare a package with the suffix "_test" will be compiled as a
separate package, and then linked and run with the main test binary.
The go tool will ignore a directory named "testdata", making it available
to hold ancillary data needed by the tests.
As part of building a test binary, go test runs go vet on the package
and its test source files to identify significant problems. If go vet
finds any problems, go test reports those and does not run the test
binary. Only a high-confidence subset of the default go vet checks are
used. That subset is: atomic, bool, buildtags, directive, errorsas,
ifaceassert, nilfunc, printf, stringintconv, and tests. You can see
This is genuinely hilarious. Can't wait to see what everyone builds!
dev.to/phalkmin/move-over-vibe-cod...
:D
Where's the code for this page? @jess @ben I want this to be my inspiration for my 2027 portfolio haha
RFC 2324 is one of the great gifts of internet history — the fact that a 1998 joke protocol has inspired 28 years of developers building increasingly serious implementations of it says something true about us as a community. Looking forward to reading through all the entries this week.
This is brilliant! 🍵 Meanwhile, I built a CAPTCHA that gatekeeps humans instead of bots. Multiply 6-digit numbers in 5 seconds, decode binary, click exact pixel coordinates — you know, easy robot stuff.
Spoiler: You will fail. shopsmartai.github.io/captcha-for-... 🤖
Niiiiiice! Excited for this challenge. Let's go!
🕶️ My submission: awesome-useless
A curated list of awesome useless things. Like awesome-python, but for software that should not exist. Inside: a shell framework that makes your terminal worse, a government owl hiding dev portfolios in 1997, and a hidden grimoire of AI spells. ls -la and you'll see things. Contributions welcome. Useful PRs will be rejected.
dev.to/saraeloop/i-accidentally-bu...
I might’ve taken this challenge a little too seriously… or not seriously at all 😅
Built a calculator that refuses to calculate and instead questions your life choices.
2 + 2 doesn’t equal 4 anymore… it equals “we need to talk.”
Would love if you check it out 👀
I kept rewriting the same backend logic in every project — sending emails, Slack alerts, calling APIs after events like user signup. It got annoying, so I built a small API for myself where I just trigger an event like "user_signup" and it handles everything automatically. It’s basically a simple workflow system through an API. Curious — how do you guys usually handle this in your projects?
I'm a beginner here i only know some few programming stuff
Time to build something useless, lol
Wow It’s acceptable 🎉👌
Yea! I love it!
this is "my website, my rules" ahh moment
Here's my submission, I try my best:
Try not to click
Submitted mine:
April Fools Challenge Submission ☕️🤡
PURESLOP.md — teach your AI agent to write terrible code.
When I clicked the email link, I was positive I had just opened a GeoCities site from the late '90s... This is crazy!!! LOLOLOL
I have Onlocked my Inner Useless project thinking and design 🤣
AIRTIMES:-That's something completely useless and the same time very interesting.
Free data and service Network for everyone Globally.
Advice, if it were good, would be sold. Nietzsche in a madhouse. AI is something nobody needs.
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Participate
I'm done
awosemmmm!!!
On it.
I don't know anything thing
How do I submit the assignment
Be ready for lock down
Redy to buld use less
Submitted center-this-dev yesterday and got more than 2200 players in less than 16h, now not sure how useless it really is 😅
hello all
Build something really fun and useless, do check it out on my profile guys .
This gave me an idea… what if ads were always wrong but fully confident? 💀
I actually built this 😭
dev.to/shsarvagya19/confidently-wr...
I'm in!
Appreciate this program