The SpaceX IPO Screensaver_
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What is this?
The four modes
Hidden easter eggs
Keyboard shortcuts
Guide — launch the screensaver in five steps
Satire on a canvas: no real prices, no download.
Mars Static, No Funding, Candle Warp or Test Pattern — or press 1 to 4.
Tweet Frequency sets the flicker; Leverage Multiplier sets grain and speed.
Toggle scanlines, zero-gravity text and Mars interference.
Press F or use the full-screen button. Space pauses.
Type 4 2 0, press M for the runaway ticker, and Esc to “liquidate”.
At a glance
- 1 Mars Static
- Red CRT snow made of tiny up and down arrows
- 2 No Funding
- Bouncing box; a corner hit launches a Falcon 9
- 3 Candle Warp
- Starfield of green and red candlesticks
- 4 Test Pattern
- Glitching colour bars: NASDAQ:SPCX — LIVE
- F
- Full screen
- Space
- Pause / resume
- 1–4
- Switch mode
- R
- Reset
- M
- Runaway fake ticker
- Esc
- Exit + fake Windows 98 error
- priced
- June 11, 2026 at $135 a share
- first trade
- June 12, 2026 on Nasdaq as SPCX
- raised
- $85.7 billion incl. over-allotment
- day one
- Opened about $150, closed about $161
The SpaceX IPO screensaver, explained
This is a joke screensaver about one real event: SpaceX’s stock market debut. It imagines the second $SPCX went live as a retro CRT monitor crossed with a Bloomberg terminal on 100x leverage, and loops it on an HTML5 canvas in your browser.
Did SpaceX really go public?
Yes. SpaceX priced its IPO at $135 a share on June 11, 2026 and began trading on the Nasdaq under the ticker SPCX on June 12, 2026. The shares opened around $150 and closed the first day around $161, about 19% above the offer price. The offering raised about $75 billion, rising to $85.7 billion after the underwriters exercised their over-allotment option, at a valuation of about $1.77 trillion — the largest IPO in history, well ahead of Saudi Aramco’s $29.4 billion in 2019. The share price has moved a lot since; this page does not track it.
Is any of the market data real?
No. Every price, arrow, candle and ticker on screen is generated randomly in your browser. Nothing here is a quote, a signal or financial advice.
The jokes behind the modes
No Funding riffs on the 2018 “funding secured” tweet about taking Tesla private, and on the DVD-logo screensaver where everyone waits for the corner hit. Candle Warp turns the classic Windows starfield into candlesticks, with Dogecoin drifting past. Test Pattern borrows the SMPTE colour bars TV stations showed off-air. The Esc key ends it with a Windows 98-style error announcing your portfolio will be liquidated.
Running it as a screensaver
Open the page on the screen you want, press F and leave it running. It works in any current browser on Windows, Mac, Linux, iOS and Android. A web page cannot register as your operating system’s screensaver, so full screen is the way to use it.
Free, no download
The screensaver is free, with no account, no ads and nothing to install.