About

The internet is full of life hacks that promise to save you time, money, and effort. This website is different: our hacks work exactly as described and improve nothing. Every hack is tested, verified, and certified useless before publication.

The mission

Modern life is obsessed with optimisation. We optimise sleep, commutes, inboxes, and breathing. Somewhere along the way, nobody stopped to optimise the things that don't matter. We fixed that. You're welcome.

The domain

The founder owned uselesslifehacks.com for years, did nothing with it, and let it expire — which, in hindsight, was the most on-brand possible use of the domain. It has now been bought again, and this time it's being used to publish content of equivalent value.

Submit a hack

Got a tip that works perfectly and helps no one? Email it to [email protected]. If it's genuinely useless, we'll publish it with credit. If it's accidentally useful, it will be rejected without appeal.

Curation policy

Some hacks are spotted in the wild — mostly on Reddit — and linked with full credit and a note on where they were seen. We link to sources rather than copying them, partly out of respect, mostly because copying would be effort.