Today's lesson: just make something fun that you enjoy, and people will like it :-)
Hacker News pushed wthhyb.sacha.house to the top slot for a while. Proof will go here once I grab the screenshot.
I saw this image https://x.com/codinghorror/status/347070841059692545 on Twitter/X and couldn't help wanting to find the orignal website. Having done so and failed to find anything, I set on to simply : REMAKE IT FROM SCRATCH myself :D.
I init'd a fresh bun/vite/react/tailwind project, dove into the newly created App.tsx and went to town. From 18h to arround 21h, and I was done !
I posted the small evening parody project to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45832803, figured maybe a few people would click, and suddenly traffic went vertical. Nothing to sell, a simple joke. Just shipped something original, shared it to the public and the front page did the rest.
For those of you curious to see, here's what it looks like (you could also just click here):
(btw, there's a hidden secret teehee)