Codemaxxed
350M+ LOC and a GitHub cease and desist
Details
- External ID
- 47808458
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Codemaxxed
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- April 17, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.11182519280205655
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
Built this code art project as a commentary on the recent wave of using LOC as a primary measure of engineering productivityIt's now up to 350M lines of useless (but hopefully funny) code, constantly growing using GitHub actions and https://github.com/jshchnz/codemaxxingUnfortunately, GitHub has now sent me a notice to remove the repo within the next 14 days, so enjoy it while you can
Enrichment
- Theme
- git and repository workflow tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- code dataset with legal complications
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a joke/art project using simple GitHub Actions scripts to generate massive amounts of dummy code and push commits.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 120 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #103 of 121 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 168 days after the earliest competitor.
- I built a 500K LOC production app alone in 7 months. Here is the proof · hn · 2026-05-10 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- GitClassic.com, a fast, lightweight GitHub thin client (pages <14KB) · hn · 2026-03-12 · 41 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Claude Code's Source Code Got Leaked, Let's Talk About It · hn · 2026-03-31 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- git-lrc · hn · 2026-06-16 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- GitComment · github · 2026-09-22 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- GhostBox · hn · 2026-05-01 · 126 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- No AI · hn · 2026-04-24 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- I tried to reverse engineer Claude Code usage limits · hn · 2026-03-26 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.41
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a dev tools tool for Sales yet.