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

[adnjoo]

https://adnjoo.github.io/motherfuckingapp/

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.

[tuyguntn]

> 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?

[tuyguntn → tuyguntn]

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 → tuyguntn]

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

[sebastiennight → tuyguntn]

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 → sebastiennight]

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 → chrisbuc]

    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-...

[kristianc]

“And it's fucking useless” would have at least been honest

[titaphraz]

I click "Download the App" and fuck all happens. How the hell did you fuck up that simple app?

[cAtte_ → titaphraz]

(wrong post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43870289)

[titaphraz → cAtte_]

Yikes! Sorry!

[dang → cAtte_]

Yikes indeed! we'll move it thither

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

[adnjoo → titaphraz]

That was intentional. The real download was the silence you felt inside.

[titaphraz → adnjoo]

There is never silence. Software buttons can do two things, a) what they say they do, or if not, b) trigger my rage response right away.

[Illniyar]

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 → Illniyar]

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 → BLKNSLVR]

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.

[antisthenes]

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]

I’m not happy with the learning curve. Can we get an onboarding self-guided tour upon first use?

[adnjoo → JSR_FDED]

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 → adnjoo]

Please don’t do a half-assed job. If you’re not adding Gamification, don’t bother with the rest either.

[adnjoo → JSR_FDED]

Half-assed? Sir, this is a zero-ass product. That’s the whole point.

[tgdn]

The website doesn’t work on mobile

[j3s]

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]

Lord jesus fucking christ. I love this motherfucking shit.

[adnjoo → titaphraz]

Finally, someone gets it. It’s not an app. It’s a vibe engine.

[almosthere]

Yeah also I'm really tired of lazy takes on a concept for a joke.

[dogman123]

I thought the era of gratuitous cursing was behind us. Oh well.

[mattdeboard → dogman123]

frick no it's not