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I agree with you but nothing about the comment was discussing whether or not people will pay for repl.it

The context of this HN post is about originality itself.

True, but criticizing a lack of originality boils down to "this product isn't useful". I was arguing more for the utility/value of the service, which results in demand and customers.

> criticizing a lack of originality boils down to "this product isn't useful"

in general yes, but in this case the criticism is warranted when Replit is claiming that that the open-source toy project somehow stole their idea

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