The only catch will be if attention coalesces around an individual project instead of hundreds of people vibecoding their own versions.
The only catch will be if attention coalesces around an individual project instead of hundreds of people vibecoding their own versions.
These are decades-old software where even the inconsistencies, quirks and bugs are now considered features (because users have come to rely upon them) - a full detailed specification itself would be very complicated. My bet is this OSS-clone hype will last all of 6 months.
My bet is: This guy is pumping out that stuff to land a good job somewhere :-) (I doubt that by now someone is paying for the continuously crashing clones?)
Their websites look more polished than the apps themselves, have download options for non-technical users, and in no place that I can see (as of writing) do they mention that they are early development: https://getartcraft.com/apps/wordcraft
In "the before times" it was at least the norm to place at the top of a github repo and download section "this is early alpha" or similar to not let down potential users. This project currently seems like a great way to burn user willingness to try new apps.