
I Built an AI App That Gives You Superpowers, But Makes Them Useless
This is a submission for the DEV April Fools Challenge What I built I built a full-stack AI app that gives you the superpower you ask for, then ruins it with one tiny condition. You open the site. You rub a magical lamp. A genie shows up. You make a wish. The app grants it in a way that makes the whole thing basically useless. cursed-powers--jimzandueta.replit.app You can become invisible, but only your internal organs. You can shape-shift, but only into a slightly uglier version of yourself. You can hear other people's thoughts, but only in extinct languages. So yes, it works. It just works toward a completely worthless outcome. The idea was simple. I wanted to interpret "useless" a little sideways. Instead of making something broken, I made something polished whose output is useless on purpose. The app does what it says. The infrastructure is real. The end result is still nonsense. So I did not build a useless app. I built an app that mass-produces uselessness. And because I apparent
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