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Comment by rayhanadev

Okay well what did he copy? Your mobile app demos don't seem to have any similar features to the Replit app; and based on the digging I did, there weren't any novel features that Replit could have stolen.

Furthermore, the Replit app was developed by a separate team that has been working for months on a product, not by one man. Most of the features were initially developed on the website and implemented into the app, and I see no evidence of any similar features _at all_ in the video demos of your application. Certainly no copied UI/UX features and no actual IDE features.

The AI models that Replit trained were done using the latest in technology, not anything that was available over two years ago - hell they implemented OpenAI's Whisper voice recognition AI within weeks after it was released.

Beyond the first three sentences of this post, it spirals into a rant about Amjad's alliance with Russians? and then a comment afterwards calls for anti-fraud organizations to investigate Amjad being "related to the russian capital and money laundering". I say this post is trying to grab attention using pathos from the Ukrainian crisis and past trending hits from HN.

Before I get flamed in the comments, I would like to preface by saying I have my own opinions and am not a Replit stan haha. I did my research before arriving to the conclusions above. If Victor can provide some evidence that refutes my claims and shows correlations of novel ideas (I'm looking specifically at the AI features cause those were the most recent of Replit's releases) then I would be persuaded to believe otherwise.

-RA

parent rayhanadev 4 years ago

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