Spent 2 days on a chat app. It has more bugs than users and the logo is 40% of the file size. Enjoy.

Kam — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 18:48:37 +0000

so i decided modern web dev is for cowards. why use react (1.2mb of pure bloat) when i can just use 100kb of "it works on my machine" and a dream?
introducing litechat. it’s ephemeral, meaning your messages have a shorter lifespan than my last situationship. no accounts, no encryption, no security—just vibes and raw strings being yeeted into the abyss.
the "stack" (aka my 13th reason):

vanilla js: ancient forbidden magic because i hate myself.
sql: your data stays alive for roughly 30 mins before it gets sent to the shadow realm.
pure spite: the only thing holding the server together.

look at the stats lmao:
my dashboard is literally screaming. i’m seeing vertical growth—specifically an 11,800% increase in errors. in tech terms, we call this "disrupting the industry." the cpu is up 194% because the code is currently in a mid-life crisis trying to figure out how to exist.
the cursed features:

the 50-message lobotomy: once the chat hits 50 messages, the app develops stage 4 dementia. you have to refresh the page like a sweat just to see if someone replied.
the lobby-2 backroom: if the main room fills up faster than a mcdonalds 2-for-1 deal, just go to lobby-2. if it doesn't exist, the code will literally hallucinate it into existence.

zero encryption: everything is sent as raw strings. if you drop your ssn in here, that's between you, me, and the fbi agent watching my traffic.

go talk to the void before the janitor deletes the database or the server actually explodes: the cursed page
*don't @ me if it breaks, it was broken when i made it.
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Forem: Kam

Spent 2 days on a chat app. It has more bugs than users and the logo is 40% of the file size. Enjoy.