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by vram22 448 days ago
Interesting. Got more examples of this playbook?
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gnuly 448 days ago
I can think of:

  Sqlite -> Turso  
  PostgreSQL -> Neon  
  Chromium -> Arc browser
not exactly fork, but aimed at riding popularity of an already-established thing:

  Nodejs -> Bun
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SJC_Hacker 448 days ago
IRC -> Discord
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no_wizard 448 days ago
IRC -> Slack

Early slack actually supported being used by 3rd party IRC clients

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