Successful. We started Hummingbird because we were very dissatisfied with the state of things in this industry. If MAL improved as a direct result of our hard work, then we're positively effecting an experience for hundreds of thousands of users.

In the meantime we're going to keep innovating and working towards the platform we want to have. Now that we're open source, if we stumble or come up short, somebody else can carry on the torch.

I think that's the beauty of open-source.

Do they really need the code to clone the UI? I'd be more worried about the suggestion system.

hah, that would make the MAL devs competent, not going to happen

That would require there to actually be MAL devs. Last I heard, they're down to one guy and he's AWOL.