Founder Says 'Ramen Profitable', Means Only The Ramen Part
“I tell people we're ramen profitable. We're not profitable. I just eat a lot of ramen. It's one phrase doing two very different jobs.”
Pride6 weeks ago
What did you just say?
Tech confessions, said out loud and posted anonymously. Read, judge, then confess.
Maker Refreshes Launch Page So Often They Get A Captcha, Fail It
“On launch day I refreshed our Product Hunt page so many times I got a captcha. I failed the captcha. The internet briefly decided I was a bot, which, at hour nineteen, was fair.”
Lust6 weeks ago
Launch Video's British Voiceover Is The Founder, Doing An Accent
“Our launch video has a voiceover by a very calm British man. It's me. I'm not British. Now on every sales call I have to either do the accent or explain.”
Lust7 weeks ago
Course On Finishing What You Start Is Missing Module Six
“I sell a course on finishing what you start. I haven't recorded module six. People who bought it in 2023 keep asking where it is. I tell them module six is about patience.”
Sloth6 weeks ago
Vibe-Coded To-Do App Ships With 214 Dependencies
“My to-do app has 214 dependencies. The AI added one every time I asked for anything. One checks if a number is even. Another checks if it's odd. They depend on each other.”
Gluttony6 weeks ago
Engineer Chasing 'Visibility' Promotion Now Books Meetings To Be Seen
“My deskmate got promoted for 'visibility.' So I started booking meetings just to be seen in them. I'm incredibly visible now. I haven't done any actual work since March.”
Envy6 weeks ago
Confess it out loud. Anonymously!
Tap the booth and say what you did (or what you let the AI do). It goes up as text, with no name attached, for everyone to judge.
Tap to start. You get 30 seconds.
Nothing coming to mind? Try the time you tested in prod.
Judge them one by oneSwipe right to absolve, left to burn.
PR Description Opens With 'Certainly! Here Is Your PR'
“I pasted the AI's PR description in without reading it. It started with 'Certainly! Here is a professional pull request description.' My tech lead printed it out and framed it.”
Sloth6 weeks ago
Vibe Coder Asks AI To 'Make It Secure', Gets A Padlock Emoji
“I asked the AI to make my app secure. It added a padlock emoji to the login button and said my app was now more secure. I shipped it. I do feel safer.”
Pride6 weeks ago
Engineer Pauses Major Incident Call To Keep 300-Day Wordle Streak
“The whole platform was down and thousands of customers were affected. I stepped off the incident call for ninety seconds to keep my Wordle streak alive. Three hundred days. Priorities.”
Sloth6 weeks ago
Faced With 'Refactor' And 'Ship It' Buttons, Engineer Picks Lunch
“Every afternoon I'm the two buttons meme: refactor it properly, or ship it. I sweat. I stare. Then I choose the secret third button, which is lunch.”
Sloth6 weeks ago
Team Now In Sprint 0.8, Project Not Started
“We had a Sprint 0 to set up the project. Then a Sprint 0.5 to finish setting up. We're in Sprint 0.8 now. The project has not started. The Jira board looks incredible.”
Sloth6 weeks ago
Design Team Splits Into Barbie And Oppenheimer Factions, Ships Both Themes
“In 2023 our design team split into Barbie and Oppenheimer factions over the new theme. Pink versus black. We shipped both. Internally it's called Barbenheimer mode.”
Gluttony7 weeks ago
This week in the booth
- Confessions absolved today
- Friday deploys confessed
- Most committed sin
- Times someone said “it worked locally”
- Recordings kept after transcription
Numbers are made up. The sins are real.