[jsheard]

And everyone has, YC alone has funded at least four Cursor clones, Double, Void, Continue and Pear, with Pear being a literal fork of Continue's OSS code. AFAICT Cursor isn't even the original, I think Copilot X was the first of its kind and Cursor cloned that.

[FridgeSeal]

Turns out they’re all just elaborate feature branches, in a giant branch-stacking-PR, and they’re all going to merge code and funding, like some kind of VC-money-fuelled-power-ranger.

[amarcheschi]

I wonder whether so many clones companies funded can eventually bring in a positive return when (if) a single company manages to rise above the others and become successful. Does anybody know if yc funding is publicly available? And how to know what return they get if a company gets ipo'd?