Re:I launched a Mac utility; now there are 5 clones on the A...
by jffry on Tuesday September 16, 2025 @09:34PM
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I appreciate you having a go and it does look very attractive. It's not a problem I have but $5 is a reasonable request for something that gets the info into an understandable format for somebody.
I do think that small, single-purpose apps are probably the easiest lunch to eat. Narrowly scoped greenfield projects are where the LLMs seem to excel right now so that game seems like a race to the bottom.
As far as the cloning goes: your only recourse is probably the DMCA angle for the exact duplicate text. It's a shame they're so lazy as to straight copy it, but I suspect the response (if any) will be them lightly laundering it through ChatGPT so it's no longer the same.
Good luck! And I hope you find more useful ideas people might pay for
Re:I launched a Mac utility; now there are 5 clones on the A...
by tTarnMhrkm on Wednesday September 17, 2025 @06:33PM
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Yeah this makes sense.
Thanks, this app is just one pit stop of many!
My goal was to build a classic, single-purchase utility that does one thing well and doesn't require an account or a subscription.