Rationale 🤔

Overengineering has always been the pet peeve of many developers. We engineers have this tendency to descend into the chaos of adding nice-to-have features or architecting to support things that might happen in the far future. To avoid this, we create constraints for the project and work around these constraints.

But what if we break out of this for once? What if we do the OPPOSITE?

That's where this challenge comes in.

The Challenge 💪

The challenge is to create a TODO List App and overengineer it to its limits.

• Make it with the most overkill tech you know.
• Use the most exotic techniques that you can wield.
• Build it with the most overblown architectures.
• Design with the insanest user experience.

FORK THIS PROJECT and let your imagination run wild. There are no limits to what you can do.

JUST OVERENGINEER™.

YOU HAVE THE LICENSE TO DO IT.

Example 📜

Here's my idea of what I'd do when I do this challenge:

• Create an Elixir GraphQL API using Absinthe
• Create the web application frontend using ReasonReact
• Use Kubernetes to stitch together the web application
• Create a mobile app using Flutter or bs-react-native

Social 💻

Add a hashtag #overengineeringchallenge when you share your project on social media!

When you're done, make a Pull Request and add yourself to the list of challengers! 🔥

Github Repo

johnpaulada / overengineeringchallenge

🔥 THE #overengineeringchallenge.

🔥 Over Engineering Challenge

Rationale 🤔

Overengineering has always been the pet peeve of many developers. We engineers have this tendency to descend into the chaos of adding nice-to-have features or architecting to support things that might happen in the far future. To avoid this, we create constraints for the project and work around these constraints.

But what if we break out of this for once? What if we do the OPPOSITE?

That's where this challenge comes in.

The Challenge 💪

The challenge is to create a TODO List App and overengineer it to its limits.

• Make it with the most overkill tech you know.
• Use the most exotic techniques that you can wield.
• Build it with the most overblown architectures.
• Design with the insanest user experience.

FORK THIS PROJECT and let your imagination run wild. There are no limits to what you can do.

JUST OVERENGINEER™.

YOU HAVE…

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Comments

[Lars Klopstra ⚡]

Uses micro front end architecture for each different view

[John Paul Ada]

😂😂😂 DO IIIIIIIT!

[Lars Klopstra ⚡]

Okay, hold my beer

[K]

Funny idea, I'll look into it if I find the time :D

[John Paul Ada]

I'm sure it will be epic. Looking forward to it! 🔥

[JeffD]

Fun, it remembers me this challenge: uxdesign.cc/the-worst-volume-contr...

[John Paul Ada]

Oh man I remember this. LOL.

[Phil Ashby]

For some inspiration: 99-bottles-of-beer.net/tophits.html :)

[John Paul Ada]

Malbolge got me scared LOL