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Useless Enterprise App
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Useless Enterprise App

via Dev.toLaura Norwood3h ago

This is a submission for the DEV April Fools Challenge What I Built I built a Useless Enterprise App™ that looks dangerously close to something you’d be forced to use at work… but is entirely designed to waste your time. It’s a React-based “Business Request Alignment Interface” that simulates a full corporate workflow, complete with forms, approvals, dashboards, and system feedback. None of it actually achieves anything. Key features (all technically functional, strategically pointless): A Save button that runs away from you when you try to click it A form that introduces new mandatory fields after submission A fake approval process requiring an “Approval Readiness Reference Code” that never existed A progress bar that confidently tracks nothing A system status panel that cycles through corporate nonsense like “Consulting the alignment committee…” Error messages such as: “Success could not be completed successfully” It’s not broken. It’s just… like this. Demo Demo: Best experienced emo

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