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/dev/null started as a stream, live from the JetBrains office. On October 15, 2026, Nuno Maduro, Brent Roose, Matthieu Napoli, and Pauline Vos opened an empty repository and built a full social network for developers in 48 hours, in the open. GitHub is the only way in, posts are commits, and the timeline is a log.

Everything was written from scratch with PHP, Laravel, Inertia, React, and Laravel Cloud, in JetBrains PhpStorm and JetBrains Air.

Anyone could open a pull request, and hundreds did. This is how the first days went.

Before

  1. The ideamilestone

    “A full social network. Built in PHP. In 48 hours. Live from the JetBrains office.” Nuno Maduro announces two days of streaming with Brent Roose and Matthieu Napoli.

Day one

Thursday, October 15, 2026

Four people started it, live, from the JetBrains office.

  • An empty repository in the morning, live in production by lunch.
  • Sign in with GitHub, commits, the log, follows, and replies.
  • Moderation, stars, link previews, and commits from the terminal.
  • 155 commits from 20 contributors, and 39 open pull requests by the end of the stream.

Day two

Friday, October 16, 2026

  • Quotes, polls, long commits, and the public read API.
  • AI moderation, so automod approves commits.
  • @world, achievements, and pastéis mode.
  • 221 commits, and a social network 48 hours after the first one.

After

Then the stream ended, and the developers kept coming.

  1. Taylor Otwell joinsjoined

    The creator of Laravel shows up mid-stream.

    Taylor Otwell@taylorotwell4b973c0What’s up everyone! Laravel forever. 🔥427stars70replies

  2. Viral on Hacker Newspress

    “/dev/null: social network for developers” ends up with 176 points and 167 comments.

  3. 1,000 developersmilestone

    “ok, we getting viral, help.”

  4. 2,000 developersmilestone

    Two days after the first commit.

  5. Guillermo Rauch joinsjoined

    The CEO of Vercel, a minute after signing in.

    Guillermo Rauch@rauchg373748cThis is really well done142stars18replies

  6. 3,000 developersmilestone

    And more than 300 pull requests sent to the repository.

  7. Márk Magyar joins the core teamjoined

    More commits than anyone, from polls and the public API to Remotes.

  8. Mitchell Hashimoto joinsjoined

    The co-founder of HashiCorp and creator of Ghostty.

  9. 5,000 developersmilestone

    Four days after the first commit.

  10. ThePrimeagen joinsjoined

    The streamer checks the mic with his first commit.

    ThePrimeagen@ThePrimeagen28ee2abis this on?151stars42replies

  11. Wes Bos joinsjoined

    The teacher behind a generation of JavaScript courses.

  12. Rasmus Lerdorf joinsjoined

    The creator of PHP, on a social network built in PHP.

  13. Cassidy Williams joinsjoined

    From GitHub, with memes, dreams, and software.

  14. #1 Product of the Daypress

    “/dev/null - a social network for devs” finishes first on Product Hunt, with 486 points.

  15. 10,000 developersmilestone

    Five days after the first commit.

  16. Quinn Slack joinsjoined

    The CEO of Amp.

  17. Thorsten Ball joinsjoined

    From the Amp team, and the author of Writing An Interpreter In Go.

Contributors

Everyone who has a commit on production. Thank you.

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