[slow_donkey]

I agree with you but nothing about the comment was discussing whether or not people will pay for repl.it

The context of this HN post is about originality itself.

[imiric]

True, but criticizing a lack of originality boils down to "this product isn't useful". I was arguing more for the utility/value of the service, which results in demand and customers.

[gtyras2mrs]

> criticizing a lack of originality boils down to "this product isn't useful"

in general yes, but in this case the criticism is warranted when Replit is claiming that that the open-source toy project somehow stole their idea