nothing
Winner of Bending Spoons' Occam Award at IC Hack 26
A desktop browser that removes everything you didn't ask for.
Watch it
Open the videoThe app itself, filmed against live sites: BBC, YouTube and Amazon as they were on the day. Nothing is staged — each page is loaded over the network and rebuilt by the adapters while you watch. Minimal mode is switched off part way through, which is the only time the original page appears.
Electron, TypeScript, esbuild, Mozilla Readability
The Occam Award
Bending Spoons set their IC Hack 26 track one question: cut through unnecessary complexity and deliver the simplest solution that actually works. It was the most-picked track of the weekend, taken by more than 45% of the teams. Nothing answers it by subtraction — it does not add a reading mode beside the page; it hides the page, works out what the page was for, and rebuilds only that. Built over 31 January and 1 February 2026 at Imperial College London.
We built nothing at ICHack and still won.
How it works
Nothing hides the source page before it renders, then runs a priority-ordered adapter to identify the useful part of the site. Eight local adapters cover search, video, shopping, news, and long-form articles; five templates rebuild matched pages, while unsupported pages receive in-place cleanup. Navigation and an original/minimal toggle remain in the Electron shell.
My contribution
Nothing was built in 24 hours by six of us: Daniel Fostiak, Benjamin Samyani, Anton Lewis, Michael Chockler, Daniel Chockler and me. I worked on the search, video, and retail adapters, the adapter-generation experiment, integration, and visual refinement.
This was a hackathon prototype: its BrowserViews deliberately relax Electron sandboxing, so it is an interface experiment rather than a production-secure browser.
Source on GitHubAward entry on Devpost