Inject unnecessary engineering into any website. Scanners, inventions, blueprints, chaos effects, and easter eggs.
Users
5
−4 in 30 days
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5.0 / 5
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2.0.0
updated 8 Jul 2026
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About OPEN SAUCE
OPEN SAUCE — Inject Unnecessary Engineering Into The Internet 🥔🔧
Every website becomes a ridiculous engineering experiment. Inspired by William Osman, Hacksmith, Michael Reeves, and the Backyard Scientist, Open Sauce turns any webpage into a chaotic engineering playground — 100% local, 100% reversible, and never destructive.
🔬 WEBSITE SCANNER
Scan any page and get a fake engineering analysis: Structural Integrity %, Duct Tape Required (rolls), Likelihood William Osman Builds This %, Explosion Probability (Low/Medium/High/Imminent), Bearings Required, Solder Joints, and more. Each of the 8 engineering modes produces different metrics — explosive mode reports Blast Radius, civil mode reports Load Capacity, biomedical mode reports FDA Approval status (spoiler: it's never approved).
🧪 INVENTION GENERATOR
Generate random unnecessary inventions like "Hydraulic Bluetooth Banana" or "AI-powered Cardboard Submarine." Each invention includes a category, tagline, difficulty rating (1-5), engineering rating (0-100), materials list, fake CAD drawing description, and a safety warning. 8 engineering modes produce completely different inventions — civil engineers get bridges and dams, electrical engineers get transformers and coils, explosive engineers get potato cannons and thermite charges.
📐 BLUEPRINT MODE
Annotate every visible element on the page with engineering callouts: "LOAD BEARING," "NEEDS BEARINGS," "COULD SPIN FASTER," "ADD MORE MOTORS," "TOLERANCE ±0.5mm," "WELD HERE," and 20+ more. Plus measurement chips (Ø 22mm, R 8, M6x1.0) and dashed arrows. Re-scans periodically for SPAs and infinite scroll.
🌀 BROWSER CHAOS (12 reversible effects)
Crank the chaos level 0-100 and watch the mayhem:
• Button jiggle — buttons wobble randomly
• Googly eyes — images gain eyes that track your cursor
• Magnet cursor — cards lean toward your pointer
• Window wobble — the whole page tilts gently
• Scroll inertia — tiny overshoot bounce
• Link sparkle — links glow orange
• Screen shake — random earthquakes
• Drunk rotation — headings and paragraphs slowly tilt
• Image meltdown — images droop and sag
• Debris particles — nuts, bolts, and gears rain down
• Glitch text — headings get RGB-split glitch
• Cursor trail — orange sparks follow your cursor
At 100% chaos, all 12 effects fire at once. True apocalypse.
💥 8 ENGINEERING MODES (each with unique visual effects)
• 🏗️ Civil — concrete cracks, warning cones, falling hard hats, "LOAD BEARING" stamps
• ⚡ Electrical — lightning bolts, screen flicker, power surges, blue flashes
• ⚙️ Mechanical — drifting gears, page vibration, spinning ⚙️ symbols
• 🧪 Chemical — rising bubbles, smoke clouds, acid drips, ☣️ toxic symbols
• 🚀 Aerospace — starfield, page tilt, launching rockets, satellites, altitude indicator
• 💻 Software — matrix code rain, glitch blocks, fake error popups (ERROR 404, kernel panic)
• 🩺 Biomedical — ECG heartbeat line, blood drips, medical crosses, falling pills
• 💥 Explosive — warning stripes, strong tremor, random explosions, DANGER labels, fire, red flashes
🎯 ENGINEERING CHALLENGES
Generate random build challenges: "Construct a robot that draws mustaches on photos in your house. Constraint: Everything must be powered by rubber bands. Time limit: before someone notices. Reward: William Osman nod of approval."
✨ HIDDEN EASTER EGGS
• William Approved stamp — full-screen rotating stamp
• Rubber duck — bouncy duck in the corner (click it for an achievement)
• Mini robot — walks across the bottom of the screen
• Tiny explosion — animated ring + 💥
• Fake firmware update — fake progress bar
• Konami code (↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A) — triggers surprises
• Triple-click the SAUCE button — William Approved stamp
📸 SCREENSHOT MODE
Generate a 1200×800 branded PNG screenshot with blueprint grid, stats, and Open Sauce branding. One-click download. Perfect for posting on X/Reddit. Comes with a random funny caption like "I accidentally engineered Wikipedia."
🏆 ACHIEVEMENT SYSTEM (12 achievements)
• First Patent (Pending) — generate your first invention
• Prolific Engineer — generate 50 inventions
• Mad Scientist — generate 500 inventions
• Site Surveyor — run your first scan
• Certified Inspector — scan 100 different websites
• Chaos Initiate — activate browser chaos
• Maximum Chaos — crank chaos to 100
• Safety Disabled (Fake) — toggle the fake safety switch
• Blueprint Master — enable blueprint mode
• Quack Squad — find the hidden rubber duck
• Multi-Disciplinary — try all 8 engineering modes
• Master Engineer — unlock every other achievement
⏻ MASTER ON/OFF SWITCH + STOP ALL
One-click master switch to turn all effects on or off instantly. Plus a big red STOP ALL panic button that fully restores the page to normal.
🥔 SUPPORT POTATO COLLEGE
Open Sauce is free, local, and ad-free. Forever. If it makes you laugh, consider sending a few dollars to Potato College — an independent engineering education project that produces free build videos, workshop writeups, and student engineering grants. Donations are processed securely through PayBlis. No data stored. No telemetry. Just spuds.
🔒 PRIVACY
• Zero data collection
• No tracking, no telemetry, no analytics
• No accounts, no login, no signup
• Everything runs locally in your browser
• Only network request: PayBlis checkout (user-initiated only)
• 100% reversible — every effect cleans up after itself
• 100% non-destructive — your web pages stay intact
🛠 TECH STACK
Manifest V3 · TypeScript · React · TailwindCSS · Vite · Framer Motion · Chrome Storage API. No backend required for the extension itself. No tracking. No telemetry. No analytics. Period.
Inspired by William Osman, Hacksmith, Michael Reeves, Backyard Scientist, and the Open Sauce Expo. Not affiliated with or endorsed by any of them — just huge fans.
Stay saucy. 🥔🔧