Show HN: A motherfucking app (does one thing, under 300 LOC)

20 adnjoo 27 5/2/2025, 2:30:53 PM adnjoo.github.io ↗
Inspired by motherfuckingwebsite.com, this is a 100% static HTML/JS app.

You get one task box. A “do nothing” button. And zero bullshit. No login. No tracking. No frameworks. Just focus. Under 300 lines of code.

Built for fun. Possibly for sanity.

Comments (27)

kristianc · 12h ago
“And it's fucking useless” would have at least been honest
antisthenes · 2h ago
The ultimate irony, of course, is that you turned something that 100% did not need to be an "app" into an app.

But good job nonetheless.

JSR_FDED · 12h ago
I’m not happy with the learning curve. Can we get an onboarding self-guided tour upon first use?
adnjoo · 11h ago
Absolutely. We’re currently designing a 12-part onboarding flow using AI-powered nudges, a contextual chat assistant, and an animated raccoon mascot named Doofy. ETA Q3 2026.

In the meantime, please feel free to explore the button at your own pace.

JSR_FDED · 4h ago
Please don’t do a half-assed job. If you’re not adding Gamification, don’t bother with the rest either.
adnjoo · 3h ago
Half-assed? Sir, this is a zero-ass product. That’s the whole point.
tuyguntn · 12h ago
> 100% static HTML/JS app.

> under 300 LOC

> "Do nothing" button

WTF mf, why are so many lines and fancy tech for do nothing button?

sebastiennight · 12h ago
Last week we had an entire game of DOOM in a QR code... I think someone can get us "Do nothing" in less than 300 lines of code.
chrisbuc · 12h ago
I'm sure someone can get it smaller than this (save as .html)

  <input id="i">
  <button onclick="l.textContent='Now do '+i.value">Do This</button>
  <button onclick="l.textContent='Do nothing'">Do Nothing</button>
  <label id="l"></label>
sebastiennight · 5h ago

    data:text/html;,<input id=i><button onclick="l.textContent='Now do '+i.value">Do</button><button onclick="l.textContent='Do nothing'">Nope</button><label id=l>
Will work in your browser if you copy/paste it. Or as a QR code: https://d1yei2z3i6k35z.cloudfront.net/2914/6815454b25323_qr-...
tuyguntn · 12h ago
You forced me to stand up and write the code. Here is your cross-platform desktop app in 10 lines, pretty sure others can do better than me:

    package main
    import (
     "fyne.io/fyne/v2/app"
     "fyne.io/fyne/v2/widget"
    )
    func main() {
     w := app.New().NewWindow("One Button App")
     w.SetContent(widget.NewButton("Do Nothing", func() {}))
     w.ShowAndRun()
    }
dingnuts · 10h ago
You only need two Tcl statements, shown here on one line for the sake of this pissing contest:

button .b -text "Do Nothing" -command {exit}; pack .b

Illniyar · 12h ago
This is clickbait. The app does two things, there's a do nothing and a do one thing button. That's TWO things, not one. One thing would be ONE button.

0 star review. Developer should be ashamed of himself and should never ever build another thing ever again.

BLKNSLVR · 12h ago
You're doing it wrong. Counting doing nothing as something is incorrect.

Doing nothing counts as not a thing and doing a thing counts as one thing, which is what it says it does.

It may have two dot points, but only one of them is something.

If I tell my wife I was busy all day because I was doing nothing, she would say you did not get one thing done today, and she would be right.

sebastiennight · 5h ago
Well if the only thing you did was nothing, that would be one thing, but you also said you were busy all day, which is a whole other thing.
tgdn · 12h ago
The website doesn’t work on mobile
j3s · 12h ago
honestly this joke is pretty played out at this point - you need to put more distance between your app & the initial idea, otherwise it feels a little too much like a soulless rehash / pale clone of the original.
titaphraz · 12h ago
I click "Download the App" and fuck all happens. How the hell did you fuck up that simple app?
cAtte_ · 12h ago
titaphraz · 10h ago
Yikes! Sorry!
dang · 5h ago
Yikes indeed! we'll move it thither

(Thanks for watching out for a fellow user! This would have sent the mods awry otherwise...)

adnjoo · 3h ago
That was intentional. The real download was the silence you felt inside.
titaphraz · 12h ago
Lord jesus fucking christ. I love this motherfucking shit.
adnjoo · 3h ago
Finally, someone gets it. It’s not an app. It’s a vibe engine.
almosthere · 12h ago
Yeah also I'm really tired of lazy takes on a concept for a joke.
dogman123 · 12h ago
I thought the era of gratuitous cursing was behind us. Oh well.
mattdeboard · 12h ago
frick no it's not