Comment by beAbU

This is an interesting business model. Continue building on top of YC-funded forks, and you basically end up with a product that was funded by billions, but your own contribution to it was minimal.

I wonder if it's possible to get funding for a fork of an already funded fork that you launched recently.

Might even be an easy money glitch: every couple of years or so you fork your YC funded code editor, get YC funding for the new fork, and cruise on that money for a while.

(all of the above is said tongue in cheek)