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This is very cool and I'm always happy to see more competition in this space. That said, two suggestions:

- The logo looks like it was inspired directly from the Cursor logo and modified slightly. I would suggest changing it.

- It might be wise to brand yourself as your own thing, not just an "open source Cursor". I tend to have the expectation that "open source [X]" projects are worse than "[X]". Probably unfair, I know.

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Thanks for the suggestions - these issues have been a bit painful for us, and we will probably fix them in the next major update to Void.

Believe it or not, the logo similarity was actually unintentional, though I imagine there was subconscious bias at play (we created ours trying to illustrate "a slice of the Void").

Maybe the icon is a piece of cake with a sphere void in it? Trying to play on how easy it is - ‘it’s a piece of cake’

A minor counterpoint, I personally like the "open source Xyz" because I instantly know what the product is supposed to do. It's also very SEO friendly because you don't know the name of the open source version before you find it, so you can Kagi/Google/DDG "open source Cursor" and get it as a top result, instead of a sea of spammy slime.

> I personally like the "open source Xyz" because I instantly know what the product is supposed to do.

But that assumes that you're already familiar with the non-open-source software referenced. I've never used Cursor so I have no idea what it can or can't do. I'm pretty sure I would never have discovered Inkscape if it had consistently been described as an “open-source Illustrator” as I've simply never used Adobe software.

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