Resurrect was a You Ship, We Ship event that didn't work.
it asked users to bring back an unfinished project from their past, help it reach a more finished state, then ship it.
the catch? in return for their work, users wouldn't receive any prize at all.
from August 23 until its launch on September 9, 2025, this event was teased with a puzzle: a slowly expanding forum, spearheaded by the pseudonymous "rez", ostensibly showing a close-knit community of developers who wanted to do things differently. most of the topics, when taken in aggregate, betrayed a vision that differed from the norm: what if you and i could make software that meant something to us again, for no other reason except for that we wanted to?
Resurrect was the last thing i tried to run for the Hack Club community. its repository - this repository - remained private from start to finish; however, i like the code a lot, so i figured it shouldn't stay that way forever.
it has been made public for historical purposes, and will not be maintained; i hope you can learn something from it.
with love,
– @lux, 2025-12-27
this repository contains the full, unaltered code to the Resurrect site. it was made with Jekyll, and it ran on GitHub Pages while the event was active, under the domain resurrect.cx.
maybe you could run it locally?
the following branches are available:
main- the live contents of resurrect.cx. nowadays, themainbranch helps that domain redirect to this page.v- how Resurrect's forum looked on September 9. this was when the event officially launched.iii- how Resurrect's forum looked on August 27. this was the last version of the site that didn't mention Hack Club in any forum topic, but it's also missing a couple of features. i recommend you start here.