![]() With a little help from some friends, we have created a working version of The Key and made it available for purchase. So, over the past few months, we’ve been quietly working to bring this little dream to life. Lots of people enjoyed the prank, but a lot of people also left comments on our blog or on social media asking if they could actually buy The Key for real. If they wanted unlimited access to copy and paste from Stack Overflow, all they needed to do was purchase The Key. We wanted to riff on a popular meme about the ubiquity of copy pasting code from our site, to give folks a little scare, then a laugh, and in the end, a fascinating trove of data letting them know that they are far from alone in borrowing snippets when building their software.Įvery time someone entered the keyboard command to copy characters from Stack Overflow, we showed them a pop-up warning them they were almost out of free copies. ![]() To anyone who still wants their own copy of The Key, you can continue pre-order on Drop, which expects to deliver another batch of units in December.īack in the spring of 2021, a group of Stackers began dreaming up our annual April Fool’s joke. UPDATE: Thanks to the overwhelming response, we have sold out of inventory! To everyone who ordered a unit, thank you for helping us raise money for a great organization. ![]()
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