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Developer abandons app launch after realizing it closely mirrored an existing project

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Terry Godier launched a web application that was strikingly similar to an existing open-source project, even replicating a bug that had already been fixed. Upon realizing the similarity, Godier decided to redirect the domain to the original project's creator and abandon plans for an iOS app. This decision was made after an hour of developing the application using Claude. AI

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Developer abandons app launch after realizing it closely mirrored an existing project

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    Mea Culpa - Dark Hours — Terry Godier "About an hour later, once it became clear to me that the web app I had launched using Claude was strikingly similar to hi

    Mea Culpa - Dark Hours — Terry Godier "About an hour later, once it became clear to me that the web app I had launched using Claude was strikingly similar to his open source project, even reproducing a bug he had later fixed, it was clear that there wasn’t anything to do except t…

    LINKS blog.terrygodier.com/…/mea-culpa-dark-hou…

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