Comment by dmix

Correct what exactly? Did they release this as their final product as the first milestone?

From what I gleaned the company has barely started and the founder recently(?) quit his job. They raised money on an idea and forked another project, changed the branding, and used it as the base to build a prototype

That doesn't mean this is the end product that YC invested in.

Lots of companies created MVPs this way before using funding and their new runway of time to do it properly.

If they do release it as the end product with little effort that’s basically fraud