The SpaceX IPO Screensaver_
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What is this?
The IPO by the numbers
The seven scenes
Hidden easter eggs
Keyboard shortcuts
Guide — run the screensaver in five steps
Satire on a canvas: no real prices, no download.
Mars Rush, Bell Day, Terminal Wall or a retro classic — click one, press 1 to 7, or N for the next.
Tweet Frequency sets the flicker and shake; Leverage sets speed and grain. Add scanlines, the ticker tape, or your own text.
Press F. Switch on Auto-cycle (C) and Idle start so it runs by itself.
S saves a PNG, V records 10 seconds, Copy link sends the same scene.
Type 4 2 0, hodl, doge or yolo, press M, or Esc to “liquidate”.
At a glance
- 1 Mars Rush
- Launch, coast and land on Mars
- 2 Bell Day
- June 12 as a candlestick chart
- 3 Terminal Wall
- Simulated trading-desk wall
- 4 Mars Static
- Red CRT snow of tiny arrows
- 5 No Funding
- Bouncing box; corner hit launches a Falcon 9
- 6 Candle Warp
- Starfield of candlesticks
- 7 Test Pattern
- Glitching colour bars
- F
- Full screen
- Space
- Pause / resume
- 1–7 · N
- Pick / next scene
- C
- Auto-cycle
- S · V
- Snapshot · 10 s clip
- T
- Ticker tape
- M
- Runaway fake ticker
- R
- Reset
- 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 plays it on an HTML5 canvas in your browser: a rocket rush to Mars, the bell-day chart, a trading-desk wall and four CRT classics.
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, touched $176.52 during the day and closed 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 since; this page does not track it.
Is any of the market data on screen real?
No. Prices, candles, order books, heat maps, headlines and rocket telemetry are generated in your browser and marked SIM. The only real numbers are the IPO-week facts above, which the Bell Day scene uses as anchor points (offer price, open, intraday high, close) with illustrative candles in between. Nothing here is a quote, a signal or financial advice.
Does it show the live SPCX price?
No. The screensaver never connects to a market-data feed. If you want the real price, use your broker or an exchange website.
How do I use it as a screensaver?
Open the page on the screen you want, press F and leave it running. Switch on Auto-cycle to rotate through all seven scenes, and set Idle start to 1, 3 or 5 minutes so the page goes full window by itself when you step away. A web page cannot register as your operating system’s screensaver, so full screen and idle start are the way to use it.
Can I record or share it?
Yes. Press S to save a PNG snapshot or V to record a 10-second clip (WebM or MP4, depending on your browser); both carry a small satire watermark. Copy link, Share and Post on X open the same scene, and your own text, for whoever you send them to.
What happens in Mars Rush?
A 58-second loop: ignition, liftoff, stage separation, a coast through space, arrival at Mars, a landing burn and touchdown. The telemetry, the mission clock and the $SPCX sparkline are invented and marked SIM.
The jokes behind the classics
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.