Sloppy Copies (markround.com)

Hacker News in 2026 is the probably the worst place in the world for this! Blame those PCs who cosplay as NPCs in every discussion about Claude Code.

So sad, thanks for sharing.

This is a micro version of people hopping on macro trends (and even more monetised!)

Every time something like this comes up, I find myself saying "It's going to get far worse".

I think we are seeing the beginning of the end of for-sale software.

If anyone can make an app from a spec, how can you profitably sell an app? A million people will make their own copy tomorrow.

I love the original article [0]; it seems like Mark had fun building this app. It doesn't seem like he expected it to make him a billionaire. So what's the problem? If you post a recipe on a cooking blog, and someone immediately rips it for their own site, that's a bummer, but like… what are you going to do, patent it?

We software developers are so used to software being difficult, time-consuming and expensive, but that world is gone. We're now much closer to other creative arts like writing, music or photography (and sadly, we're about to be paid like artists too). In a creative field, when someone has a good idea or style, it gets copied. But that's just art.

[0]: https://www.markround.com/blog/2026/03/05/returning-to-rails...