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by automatic6131 248 days ago
The kind of person who wants to build a website copier is exactly who I had in mind for the target of vibecoding.

Bad idea, bad execution, I like it when a plan comes together.

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I think there's some confusion about what justcopy does - it's for cloning YOUR OWN projects, not scraping other people's websites. Built it out of frustration when I tried to fork one of my projects for a different idea and it took a full day even with Claude Code and Cursor. Lots of manual config updates, dependency changes, renaming stuff, etc. The $200 mistake was about agent orchestration, not the ethics of the product. But appreciate the feedback - clearly need to communicate the use case better.
>For those who don’t know, we’re building a tool that lets you copy any website, customize it, and deploy it - all automated.

_any_ website, can't imagine why there is _any_ confusion.

God, I hate marketing lies.

I don’t care if you make less money, don’t fucking lie.

I'm not going to pay you to slightly rip off my own ideas. Who is going to pay you for this, and what are they doing with it?
Are you expecting people to believe that?

This reminds of that law that people can only legally play their own games using console emulators.