Comment by dSebastien

I never claimed this was fully original work. My project indeed started as a fork of Handy. I've discussed this here: https://github.com/DeveloPassion/knowii-voice-ai-docs/issues... and https://www.knowii.net/c/announcements/knowii-voice-ai. I also mentioned it in the user documentation (FAQ page) and About page within the app.

I am trying to approach this will full transparency, honesty and respect for what the creator of Handy did. I'm not a grifter.

Please consider that my project is still very young. I didn't include the third-party licenses in my first few releases (I honestly didn't know this about the MIT license, my bad!), but will fix this asap with the next release (hopefully coming out in a few days), and I'll pull the previous releases to avoid distributing versions that don't include the licenses. I'll also add information about the other production dependencies that I'm using.

If you look at my announcement, you'll see that I'm being fully transparent about this and am not interested in cloning Handy at all. My code is already very distant from the initial version I started with and I'm exploring and building features that will probably never be included in Handy. For instance, my app's UI has been created from scratch (with a lot of inspiration from Handy), it is fully responsive and now works on Omarchy (Hyprland/Wayland), which Handy doesn't support at the moment. I have added various features for my own needs and for my first customers (e.g., . In the roadmap of the product, you can see some of the ideas I intend to develop.

I also intend to contribute back to Handy over time. I already have and will continue to do so.