/dev/null
a social network for devs
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/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.
PH · launched Oct 20, 2026 · 403 upvotes (top 1%) · 0 views
Niche: developer community and collaboration platforms · 62 launches, 3 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Communication
- Developer
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Open Source
- Social Network
- Software Engineering
- GitHub
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Could you build this?
Yes A developer social network with GitHub sign-in, snippets, likes, and replies is standard CRUD and social-feature work, and the product itself says it was built in 48 hours.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 57 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1 of 58 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 336 days after the earliest competitor.
- twtr.dev · ph · 2026-10-08 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- dev-null.sh · github · 2026-10-15 · 310 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- dev-null-tui · github · 2026-10-27 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- We built a generator for Vue+Laravel that gives you a clean codebase · hn · 2025-11-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- dev-null-app · github · 2026-10-15 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.38
- ArtisanForge: Learn Laravel through a gamified RPG adventure · hn · 2026-02-08 · 38 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- DEV·TV · ph · 2026-09-25 · 155 upvotes · similarity 0.37
- Launchpad for developers to ship and showcase their projects · hn · 2025-12-02 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.36
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