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Re:Cube Type – Isometric Typography Generator on Saturday October 10, 2026 @09:10AM (#50032588)
Very well done. I really like the simplicity of it.
Repo should have an example section… I don’t get where this would be useful
Re:Show HN: Chess-Inspired Roguelike on Friday June 26, 2026 @08:56AM (#48686083)
I tried finding how to follow you on your site… I really enjoyed this and would like to keep up with your work
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (June 2026) on Monday June 15, 2026 @09:54AM (#48541326)
Still working on Outstatic.com, a cms for stativ sites and markdown/mdx

Recently added support for Google and Magic link login, which is nice if you want non-technical people to make website edits.

If you are teaching newbies, just get them into the Claude Code or Codex desktop apps.

For devs:

Claude, Codex and Cursor. All on the $20 subscription.

Then use Conductor for worktrees w/ Claude/Codex for mid-size tasks and code review.

Cursor for manual or small changes w/ Composer 2.5.

Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (May 2026) on Friday May 01, 2026 @03:01PM (#47978701)
Awesome project
Re:Hear your agent suffer through your code on Friday April 24, 2026 @08:37AM (#47889375)
This desperately needs a demo video in the repo.

Show HN: Frontpedia, an open source front end resource site

https://frontpedia.com

I made Frontpedia as a way to collect and organize frontend websites and resources I come across.It’s an open source project built for frontend developers and designers, and it can also be used as a base for anyone who wants to launch their own curated resource site.It uses Next.js and Outstatic for content management, with a database-free setup and easy deployment.

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Re:My open source project got stolen by a HN user on Tuesday November 21, 2023 @10:35AM (#38365034)
Hey Brandon,

I don't want to keep coming back to this.

I know you never intended to come off as stealing, thieves don't want their theft to be discovered. Unfortunately, seeing how you continued to lie after being exposed this apology feels like too little too late. If a sincere apology, admitting your wrong doing and attempt to hide any connection to Outstatic, had been written in the beginning of this whole ordeal, I'm sure this wouldn't have taken the proportions it took.

I'm not saying what you've done is unforgivable, you made a mistake, but it's important to come clean.

I hope one day you see that what you've done is wrong and that this whole situation was brought up because you tried taking credit for something you didn't create.

Don't think I've enjoyed any of this. To the contrary, I wish I never had to write about this, but I couldn't let you take credit for the work of Outstatic's contributors.

I hope that in the future you only take credit for things you create, and if you use someone's work, do give credit where it's due. This will avoid a lot of stress for you and those who's work you are benefiting from.

Re:My open source project got stolen by a HN user on Saturday November 18, 2023 @08:01AM (#38319046)
Use the code however you want. Until you start recording videos telling the world you wrote the code from scratch, removing any references to the original project, telling people to join your project and asking investors to put money in your "genius" idea...
Re:My open source project got stolen by a HN user on Friday November 17, 2023 @09:50AM (#38304358)
Re:My open source project got stolen by a HN user on Friday November 17, 2023 @09:42AM (#38304247)
Definitely, I agree with you. I tried reasoning with the person and at no point he expressed any sentiment of doing something wrong, to the contrary, he said he doubled down on the fact that he was being generous by offering me a chance to become the "cofounder" of his project. But I didn't decide to come public just because of that, that's only one example among many of ill intent and just not caring.
Re:My open source project got stolen by a HN user on Friday November 17, 2023 @07:23AM (#38302546)
Also have into account at what point the code was merged. We have made changes to our code base, and he probably did as well. I'm not mad he is using the code, my problem is with removing credits and claiming the work as his own.

Basically doing stuff like this: https://www.reddit.com/r/developersIndia/comments/14m3evc/i_...

The video is him basically showing our CMS with the logos swapped.

Re:My open source project got stolen by a HN user on Friday November 17, 2023 @07:07AM (#38302408)
In your example, he is claiming he came up with the joke. That's different isn't it?
Re:My open source project got stolen by a HN user on Thursday November 16, 2023 @05:47PM (#38296747)
Thanks for the suggestion. I did create a thread on Reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/nextjs/comments/17wujjc/my_open_sou...

Re:My open source project got stolen by a HN user on Thursday November 16, 2023 @04:54PM (#38296111)
Yes, he just added that. After a long discussion he said he was "about to do it" and it was just a big coincidence that I brought it up. After 6 months of going around claiming he wrote all the code.
Re:My open source project got stolen by a HN user on Thursday November 16, 2023 @04:43PM (#38295982)
The /source directory in his repo is 90% our code. But look, I'm not mad he is using our project, it's open source after all. I'm happy it is and people can do whatever with the code.

What I'm exposing here is an attempt at making people believe he is the author of said code. Not someone who took 90% of a project and is building something with it, but that he wrote the entirety of the code.

Re:My open source project got stolen by a HN user on Thursday November 16, 2023 @03:16PM (#38294861)
Yes, MIT License allows for modification, not going around claiming you wrote all the code.
Re:My open source project got stolen by a HN user on Thursday November 16, 2023 @03:16PM (#38294853)
Thanks for the suggestion. I haven't experienced this before so I'm not even sure how to react. I'm just astonished that people like this exist, taking work that you know isn't yours and pitching investors and other devs as your own?

I'm sorry, I think this guy needs to be put on blast. I tried doing this in a more diplomatic way through our Discord dms, but in no moment was any expression of regret or wrong doing brought up.

My open source project got stolen by a HN user

Hey everyone, I've got a bit of a situation and could use some insight.So, I created this open-source project called Outstatic (https://outstatic.com), it's been my pet project for a while. But here's the twist: I just found out someone on HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=hoofhearted) took my entire project, renamed it, and has been showing it off all over the internet as their own...

( Read More... | 66 comments | 11 points | on HN )
Re:Show HN: I made a CMS that uses Git to store your data on Monday October 24, 2022 @06:47AM (#33315003)
Thanks for the references. I'm definitely interested in adding more options to Outstatic. Haven't heard of Gitea before. It looks cool :)
Re:Show HN: I made a CMS that uses Git to store your data on Sunday October 23, 2022 @06:17PM (#33310825)
Honestly, I'm not entirely sure how it works but on my Github feed I think I get updates from products I star. This is my first open source project and I saw some other popular projects doing it. I'm basically using it to measure interest in the idea/project so that I can decide to pursue working on it publicly or just keep it for myself.
Re:Show HN: I made a CMS that uses Git to store your data on Sunday October 23, 2022 @06:14PM (#33310803)
Interesting. Thanks for the info. Ownership of data can be tricky, if you consider things like Google cache and the Internet Archive, then anything you make public on the internet isn't really yours.
Re:Show HN: I made a CMS that uses Git to store your data on Sunday October 23, 2022 @05:55PM (#33310658)
You're the first person to mention it! I love Wordpress, that's where a lot of the ideas for Outstatic came from.
Re:Show HN: I made a CMS that uses Git to store your data on Sunday October 23, 2022 @05:53PM (#33310641)
In my opinion, code I add to Github is still mine. Guess we'll have to agree to disagree here.

Self-hosting would be awesome indeed, but I think doing it would be quite complicated because of the authentication part, which is needed to push changes to a git provider.

Re:Show HN: I made a CMS that uses Git to store your data on Sunday October 23, 2022 @04:53PM (#33310164)
If you add code to Github and host it on Vercel, isn't ownership still yours?

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