[ilaksh]

I think that's a fair point that not every company owes the end user a recipe for how to reproduce their product.

However, it's also a fair question on Hacker News. Again, fair if they chose not to answer it.. but many people here are programmers.

Since they explained that they used an open source model and system https://github.com/Microsoft/TRELLIS, it will be possible for other developers who want to start similar businesses to launch basic competitors within a week or so, if they are ambitious about it.

I spent about 10 minutes with my agent running Claude 3.5 Sonnet New and generated most of the core code already: https://github.com/runvnc/img2blender

Although I haven't tested that and don't actually know if it will work.