Launching today
/dev/null started as a live stream from the JetBrains office. On Oct 15, 2026, Nuno Maduro, Brent Roose, Matthieu Napoli, and Pauline Vos built a social network for web developers from scratch in 48 hours, in the open. Sign in with GitHub, share code snippets, like, reply, etc, etc! Hundreds of you sent PRs. Laravel’s Taylor Otwell stopped by mid-stream (“Laravel forever”), and Vercel’s Guillermo Rauch called it “really well done.” Thank you for watching, sharing, and roasting us.
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Wild 48 hours. Still processing it, to be honest.
We went viral (Hacker News, X, etc.) using a format most marketing teams wouldn’t touch, precisely because it’s so uncomfortable: raw, unfiltered, no script, just us, locked in a 48-hour live stream showing every bit of it.
The whole story: https://dev-null.sh/about
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People don’t fall in love with a brand. They fall in love with the humans behind it.
@nunomaduro Congrats on the Product Hunt launch! KittyHome extension launching there today too! hope the launch goes well.
To be honest, I have been more active on /dev/null than on X for the past two days. It's raw and community is growing rapidly.
My one tiny PR got merged on the livestream, and @nunomaduro 's reaction to it was priceless! I saved the link with the timestamp of his reaction. Haha!
https://youtu.be/uHhhNffD40U?t=8210
@jigar_dhulla thank you for helping us out!
@nunomaduro Thank you for this initiative and keeping it open source. So much to learn!
Love that it’s open source. Now that the 48 hour sprint is over, how do you plan to keep it going? Will the four of you maintain it, or will it become fully community-driven?
What was the hardest part of staying live for full 48 hours ? keeping the energy up or dealing with the unexpected problems ?
So fun to have contributed a few PR's :)
@rohit71 THANK YOU!
Letting people send PRs while you were still building live is what I like about this. It gives the first community a hand in what gets built.
@oleksii_sekundant yes!
@fmerian They did this launch so ad-hoc, but I feel with your reach, you can help push it a bit further :D
@fmerian @kiselitza yes!