/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.
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.
People don’t fall in love with a brand. They fall in love with the humans behind it.
About /dev/null on Product Hunt
“a social network for devs”
/dev/null launched on Product Hunt on October 20th, 2026 and earned 386 upvotes and 59 comments, earning #1 Product of the Day. /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.
On the analytics side, /dev/null competes within Open Source, Social Network, Software Engineering and GitHub — topics that collectively have 204k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how /dev/null performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted /dev/null?
/dev/null was hunted by nunomaduro. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
nunomaduro
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
Day 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zCNQa3hNm0
Day 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfmVdXZfzUE
People don’t fall in love with a brand. They fall in love with the humans behind it.