Behind Our Villain Era: When Good Devs Go Bad (For 24 Hours)

What Just Happened?

If you're reading this, you've just experienced our brief flirtation with the dark side via VillainDevs.com — our 24-hour experiment in seeing how the other half lives. The half with better outfits, questionable ethics, and DRAMATIC lighting choices.

Look, even the most responsible tech teams need to let loose occasionally.

Sometimes, that means happy hour…

Sometimes that means creating an entire evil alter-ego complete with concerning LinkedIn profiles and suspiciously well-designed villain branding.

We chose option B because we're EXTRA like that.

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So... Why Though?

Fair question. Three reasons:

1. Creative muscles need flexing. When you spend your days solving complex technical problems, sometimes you need to solve the MOST complex problem: "How do we make highly-skilled developers dress like they're auditioning for a tech-themed Bond villain role?"
2. Team building. Nothing brings people together like collective embarrassment on professional networking sites. We'll be laughing about this in our year-end retrospective. Or therapy sessions. Whichever comes first.
3. Important security lesson. If we can convince you we're evil masterminds for a day, imagine what ACTUAL malicious actors could do. Consider this your friendly reminder that not everything online is what it seems. Except HeroDevs — we're exactly what we seem: nerds with too much time on April 1st.

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The Real HeroDevs

Now that we've had our fun, let's talk about who we ACTUALLY are.

HeroDevs specializes in providing end-of-life security support for open source software, helping organizations eliminate technical debt. We take security EXTREMELY seriously — which is why we can occasionally poke fun at ourselves with stunts like this.

Every day (except apparently April 1st), we help companies maintain and secure technology that has no official support anymore. We extend the life of your critical systems while you plan your migration strategy, saving you from rushed decisions and unnecessary risks.

So, while we may have briefly gone villain, our mission remains heroic: protecting your technology investments and giving you breathing room to make smart decisions about your digital future.

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In Conclusion

Thanks for being good sports about our brief villain arc. We promise to return to our regularly scheduled heroics immediately.

And if you've made it this far and are thinking "these people seem unhinged but also possibly useful for my outdated Angular app" — you're right on both counts! Feel free to contact us (the real us, not the evil version with the pop-up gauntlet).

Until next April Fools'...

Stay heroic,

Hayden