Observed arrival · 2026-09-18

Hassle as a Service

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Editorial interest 82/100 Selection signal · not a rating of the site

A joke REST API that returns petty bureaucratic hassles as HTTP 418 responses.

Landing page captured for the 2026-09-18 issue.

For: Developers who enjoy playful API experiments
Worth noticing: GET /v1/hassle returns HTTP 418 and supports flavors including Python, Rust, printer, AI, and Windows.

Field notes

The project frames error handling as a bureaucratic performance, with named flavors for programming languages as well as printer, AI, Windows, omarchy, and jev. Its documented surface includes random and submitted-hassle endpoints plus /docs, /health, /v1/stats, and /v1/poll. The page presents a curl example for the Rust flavor and offers a browser action for requesting a hassle, while the visible poll has a stated closing date.

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