No Business Value (build an app in 4 hours) · Web Dev Challenge S2.E4

Sponsored by Nordcraft — What could you create if you had 30 minutes to plan and 4 hours to build? Jacky Zhao, Henry Desroches, Parker Landon, Ludo Federici, Daniel Roe, and Salma Alam-Naylor take on the Web Dev Challenge to find out. ## The Challenge **We spend so much of our time “generating shareholder value”. Let’s switch it up: build a site with absolutely no business value. But the experience should still keep people on the site.** You may have noticed that this challenge is pretty open-ended. And that’s intentional. Do we mean “an experience so fun/engaging that people can’t look away”? Or “put together the darkest dark patterns like a web supervillain”? No wrong answers as long as we’re having fun! ## The Tool: Nordcraft **Your app must use Nordcraft as part of the build.** The team at Nordcraft (https://nordcraft.com/) have built a visual web framework. Their core belief is that developers should have more intuitive, visual tools that help them author code — *not* abstract it away. *THE DEVS* Jacky Zhao https://jzhao.xyz Henry Desroches https://henry.codes Parker Landon (@prkrlndn) https://parkerlandon.com Ludo Federici https://www.linkedin.com/in/ludovicofederici/ Daniel Roe (@danielroe) https://roe.dev Salma Alam-Naylor (@whitep4nth3r) https://whitep4nth3r.com *THE ADVISORS* Andreas Møller Jason Lengstorf (@codetv-dev) https://jason.energy/links *THE APPS* - Parker and Ludo's framework personality quiz: https://github.com/ParkerGits/web-dev-challenge - Jacky and Henry's Cursor Cavern: https://swag_city_4-copper_ackbar_prepared_tyrannosaurus.toddle.site/ - Daniel and Salma's Quick Recipes: https://quickrecipes.co · https://toddle.dev/projects/quick_recipes/branches/main/components/HomePage ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Get early access to new videos, exclusive bonus content and other perks, and join me in building a happier, healthier, friendlier web dev community! https://codetv.dev/support ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapters: 0:00 In this episode... 0:33 Welcome + the challenge 0:48 Required tool + meet your advisor + what is Nordcraft? 1:45 Planning phase starts 2:13 Meet Daniel and Salma + their app idea 3:44 Meet Ludo and Parker + their app idea 4:44 Meet Jacky and Henry + their app idea 6:48 Build phase starts 9:11 Progress check ins 15:54 Late stage check ins 20:52 Team Ludo and Parker app demo 24:08 Team Dude Boy Squad app demo 27:11 Team Daniel and Salma app demo 30:43 Reflections on the challenge 32:44 Outtakes and credits