Inspiration

The theme of hacklarious was to build something silly while trying to learn something new. Taking inspiration from one of the silliest hardware projects:

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We decided to build something similar but just in software

What it does

Just a simple website that has a large button and when a user clicks the button the server hosting the website is killed and a message is relayed to the user "I was killed, please restart" in a funny way.

How I built it

Python + Flask + SocketIO for the backend Javascript + jQuery + HTML for the frontend

Categories of submission:

We are also submitting 2 domains for the funniest domain on domain.com :p : uselesstech.tech themostuselesswebsiteever.tech

The plan was to host our project on these domains, but unfortunately could not get it in time to work

Challenges I ran into and what we learned

Both team members were only experienced with low level embedded programming before this (C and Assembly) and a little python for scripting purposes only. Therefore the biggest challenge with this project was to learn enough javascript + jquery + Flask + WebSockets in 24 hours to implement this project

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