I built OpenChaos - a codebase with no roadmap, no product manager, and every change decided by community vote.
How it works
- Anyone submits a PR
- Community votes with 👍 reactions on GitHub
- Most-voted PR gets merged every Sunday
- Only rule: CI must pass
Everything can be changed. Including the rules.
What happened in the first 24 hours
- 12+ PRs competing
- Someone tried to delete everything (their PR fails CI - democracy has guardrails)
- A full Rust rewrite appeared
- Dark mode is leading with 150+ votes
- Someone submitted dickbutt
I didn't expect any of this.
Why I built it
Most open source projects have a benevolent dictator. One person decides what ships.
OpenChaos has no dictator. The community decides. If they vote for chaos, chaos ships. If they vote for stability, stability wins.
It's basically Nomic for code - a game where the rules can change the rules.
The guardrails
Just one: Vercel has to build it to deploy.
That's the ceiling. Someone could change CI rules, remove tests, whatever - but if Vercel can't build it, it doesn't ship.
Someone could PR a database. Someone could remove features. Someone could rewrite everything in Rust (they're trying - it doesn't build yet).
First merge: Sunday
3 days from now, the first PR gets merged. Dark mode is winning, but anything could happen.
I have no idea what this becomes. That's the point.
Check it out: openchaos.dev
Repo: github.com/skridlevsky/openchaos
Vote on PRs: Just add 👍 to any open PR
What would you PR?
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