[bee_rider]

Running a social media site and handling all the moderation and other legal issues seems like

* a giant headache

* a totally different skill set from building an app

Anyway the code is o̶p̶e̶n̶ ̶s̶o̶u̶r̶c̶e̶ probably going to be open source soon and his company is probably not going to keep working on it now that Reddit has basically wiped out their business model, so we may as well ask why don’t you or I fork the code and then create the social media site?

[lolinder]

It's not open source yet, it has no license. Upthread the author says they're going to go check with the app dev and decide what they want to do license-wise:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36256596

[bee_rider]

Good point.