Comment by modzu

hey there. fellow indie dev here. i feel you, i see copyright and ai slop ripoffs on the daily. in fact i used to be most upset seeing my opensource code show up in much bigger commercial projects unattributed (looking at you microsoft) but im here to tell you the real answer: you have to compete. you have to compete against the slop and the clones just like youre competing with the original ps and the gimps and the kritas already. it doesnt seem fair, it seems harder, and it is. but thats the truth. ai is out of the bottle. you can still make a better photopea than some dimwit ai and the loser trying to publish their clone, because you think about and obsess over and care about your product way more deeply. that manifests. and you might say why obsess when it can just be copied. and now you sound just like metallica did in 1999. welcome to 2026