Whimsy Driven Development

One million checkboxes. That's it. The checked state syncs in realtime, so people had a lot of fun drawing pictures with the checkboxes and working together to check each individual box. All million of them.

A cloud. Why? Wrong question. Why not? You can move the cloud around, change the size, and adjust the weather.

Someone hooked up his rowing machine to Red Dead Redemption, the video game. Now navigating the river is an actual workout.

Andrew got a receipt printer and made it print out his GitHub issues as they come in. Now he has physical tickets to represent the work he needs to do.

Anna made a website where you can send a postcard to her actual address without ever visiting the post office. It uses the same APIs that companies use to send you those spam mailings we all throw away.

I was mindlessly scrolling Instagram one day, as one does when they're over 25. And I saw this video. This video made me laugh. And I also thought to myself, "I bet someone could totally make that happen… wait. I bet I could make that happen."

Inspired by those group projects we all hated in school. One person's input can negatively impact everyone else's experience. If you pause, we all pause. If you set your video to max volume in a public space, we're all listening at max volume right there with you. The playback rate is based on the average longitude of all connected users. And to set the volume, you need to make a noise inversely proportional to the volume you want. So, to get a quiet video for everyone, you must scream.

"When you liberate programming from the requirement to be professional and scalable, it becomes a different activity altogether, just as cooking at home is really nothing like cooking in a commercial kitchen."

A young bachelor's compendium of relationship tips he sourced from his female friends. It contains some solid advice, like "When she vents, don't fix. Listen first. Sometimes she just needs a witness, not a mechanic."

An app that lets you arrange a digital bouquet. You can choose each flower and select from a variety of greenery. Arrange your flowers how you want them, too. Then, write a sweet note and send it off to a loved one.

"Vibe coding is so cool, because what do you mean I can whip up a cute letter delivery website in less than an hour and make my friend's entire day?"

A site where users can make custom advent calendars for their friends to open each day.