Anycrap is a storefront for impossible products. Type any object you can imagine – the suggested searches are mind-reading glasses and a reverse alarm clock – and it renders the product as a shop listing, filed under categories including Innovative Gadgets, Pop Culture & Fiction, Supernatural, Toilet Humor and Quantum Junk. The shop furniture is all present: wishlist, cart, bestsellers, sale, worldwide shipping, and an API for developers.
It is a joke, and a well-built one. The humour is entirely in the commitment to the format – an Anti-Productivity department and Nuclear Discounts are funnier inside a faithful e-commerce shell than they would be in a gallery, and the format also happens to be a good demonstration of what image generation is genuinely reliable at, which is plausible product photography of a thing that does not exist. The developer API suggests somebody thought past the gag.
The one thing worth flagging is the shopping cart. A satirical store depends on nobody being able to complete a checkout, and this review could not establish whether the cart is decorative or functional – if you find yourself at a payment step, that is the point to stop and reconsider what is being sold. Treat the whole thing as entertainment and an image generator with an unusually good framing device, not as a shop. No rates or company details are published.
