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Guess what: The fact that it is a good story with valuable information is exactly the problem here. Let's give it a week or so before you can say with any degree of certainty that this is not called for. I'm pretty sure someone somewhere right now is making a 'clone' of that particular app and for once the app store review backlog is helping instead of hindering.

I know a lot of HN users 'out-of-band' and we have seen this phenomenon several times now. Not everybody that visits HN does so with good intentions, there are enough sharks here that you need to weigh the pros and cons of this kind of openness. If there is no gain for you then you have to wonder if being open is the right way to go.



> If there is no gain for you then you have to wonder if being open is the right way to go.

Honestly, i dont think thats the right approach to openness.


I think you're right, that there are always people who copy/clone/... stuff.

But I also think that many of those who copy will do a bad job. I'm not sure whether this would always be bad for the original creator...




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