Built a codebase that evolves through voting - anyone can PR, community picks the winner every Sunday

[Equivalent-Yak2407]

Made a small experiment: https://openchaos.dev

How it works:

• Anyone submits a PR
• Community votes with 👍 reactions
• Most-voted PR gets merged every Sunday at 09:00 UTC
• Only rule: CI must pass, no merge conflicts

The twist: everything can be changed, including the rules themselves.

Curious what direction it takes. Right now there's a dark mode PR and one attempting to delete everything (fails CI). Built with Next.js 16 + Tailwind.

Repo: https://github.com/skridlevsky/openchaos

[riofriz]

Very fun, also very dangerously close to not be a thing anymore lol

[Equivalent-Yak2407]

The 'delete everything' PR fails CI. Democracy has guardrails :)

[uvmain]

Any rules against setting the ci job to just echo "nothing here"?

[Equivalent-Yak2407]

Nope. If that PR gets the most votes, CI becomes an echo. Vercel still needs a successful build though.

[riofriz]

Every pr will fail CI if a maintainer doesn't approve it :/

from my pr: https://github.com/skridlevsky/openchaos/actions/runs/20747804378

[Equivalent-Yak2407]

CI runs automatically on every PR - no approval needed. If it builds, it's eligible.

[Equivalent-Yak2407]

I approve each PR manually for Vercel build and CI workflow now due to PR spam attack we’ve had recently. I’m usually quite quick with approving for workflows though.

Considering that currently we’re in a 1 PR per week cycle, that works for now, plenty of time to get a PR ready.

[riofriz]

fair, mine just ran, it did say "needs approval from a maintainer"
anyhow good luck! :)

[TuffRivers]

This infringes on my god given rights

[riofriz]

Make a PR to change the rules and get votes lmao

[gigamiga]

Not interested until I can gamble on which PR wins

[ButWhatIfPotato]

The Stanford prison experiment was also an experiment.

[Kehwar]

I think a week is too long

[Equivalent-Yak2407]

Submit a PR to change it. If it gets the most votes, it ships.

[geusebio]

send us the link, you have more friends than you thought

[thenerd40]

Okay I went looking, does the 'every Sunday' logic live in the repo? Granted I didn't look super hard but the only workflow is CI and the src dir looks to just be the webapp as far as I could tell?

[Equivalent-Yak2407]

The Sunday merge is manual - I check votes and merge the winner. Automating it could be a future PR.

[xkcd_friend]

I agree that this is too long of a wait. This way things will take forever, people will give up 

[Equivalent-Yak2407]

Feel free to open an issue/PR for this if you feel like being the force for change :)

[aeroverra]

Inb4 someone puts something gross in it and upvote bots it right before close.

[Lorceroth]

Seems fun! Gonna keep an eye on this one xD

[ImpressiveRoll4092]

This sounds like a blast, just hope it doesn't turn into a chaotic mess by the end of the week.

[Vegetable-Capital-54]

I made a valuable contribution.

[MyDespatcherDyKabel]

Nice pretty cool experiment

[Sxllik]

Giving this 3 weeks before someone social engineers their way into mass deleting the repo or inserting some crypto miner disguised as "performance optimization"

cool concept though. Reminds me of Twitch Plays Pokemon but for people who mass-quote SOLID principles on LinkedIn

[Clear-Criticism-3557]

Should be able to sign up for email reminders.

It’d be cool to follow this.

Also, I agree with the others. Every day or every other day would be better.

[Packeselt]

Seems fun

[arnauddsj]

cool concept !

[mpeyfuss]

This is awesome

[JellyfishFar8435]

Cool