INDEPENDENT ENGINEERING COLLECTIVE · EST. 2026

ONE
BRAINCELL.
INFINITE
DEPLOYMENTS.

We build real software with questionable decisions and unreasonable confidence. No investors. No roadmap. One shared braincell. Send help.

EXPLORE THE DAMAGE ↗VIEW SOURCE ↗
● STATUS: SOMEHOW OPERATIONAL⌁ FUNDING: $0↗ LOCATION: PRODUCTION (UNFORTUNATELY)
01 / THINGS WE'RE COOKING

ACTUAL SOFTWARE.
QUESTIONABLE ORIGINS.

Ideas that should've stayed in a group chat. Unfortunately, we gave them repositories.

PROJECT / 001↗
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TunderDonate

Crypto-native donation infrastructure. Fund open source, questionable side projects, and your next electricity bill.

CRYPTO / DONATIONSIN THE LAB ↗
PROJECT / 002↗
🧪

Experimental Stuff

Things we built because someone said “wouldn't it be funny if…” and nobody stopped us.

OPEN SOURCEONGOING ↗
PROJECT / 003↗
🛠️

Developer Tools

Solving highly specific problems we probably created ourselves. You're welcome. We're sorry.

DEVTOOLSONGOING ↗
02 / SYSTEM DIAGNOSTICS

EVERYTHING IS
FINE. PROBABLY.

A completely fictional system health report. The existential dread, however, is real.

root@braincell: ~/production● LIVE SIMULATION
➜ ~ kubectl get pods --all-namespaces
NAME              READY   STATUS
production         1/1     Running
common-sense       0/1     CrashLoopBackOff
financial-decisions 0/1     OOMKilled
unit-tests         0/0     NotFound

➜ ~ sudo apt install common-sense
E: Unable to locate package common-sense

➜ ~ █
$0VENTURE CAPITAL
01SHARED BRAINCELLS
∞TECHNICAL DEBT
200%UNJUSTIFIED CONFIDENCE
03 / THE MANIFESTO

THE CODE
IS REAL.
THE LORE
IS WORSE.

Braincell Labs is an independent open-source engineering collective. We believe software should be curious, accessible, experimental — and occasionally extremely funny.

The memes are intentional. The bugs are not.

01 / BUILD THINGS even weird things ↗
02 / SHARE THE CODE open by default ↗
03 / LEARN IN PUBLIC fail forward ↗
04 / DON'T TRUST THE VIBES test the payments ↗
04 / EMERGENCY CONTACT

WE NEED
HELP.

Want to contribute, open an issue, or witness the engineering decisions in real time? The repository doors are open.

SEND HELP ON GITHUB ↗EMAIL THE BRAINCELL ↗