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points by gordic_sara 2 days ago | 0 comments

All fair points, this was a completely new experience for me. I’m a product designer and wanted to see if Claude/Codex could help me make this real; I posted about it on X (https://x.com/saragordic/status/2098916110787916219?a=sJ1QQB...), and so many ppl liked it that I just wanted to open-source it immediately. It’s not a polished product, but I use it every day and I’m still fixing things when I can. And it made a lot of people happy + I met so many amazing people because of it!

[–] samiskin 2 days ago

They're fair points for platforms for distribution of products like Itch.io and Steam, but they don't apply here at all! You made a fantastic project and shared it with the world on a platform meant to share source code . This is now an artifact that countless others can use to spin off their own cool ideas and let their own creativity take form.

If someone uses this and expects maintenance, I'd say that's just entitlement on their part. Github is the perfect place for cool ideas like this even if it ends up being throwaway, and its a gift to the world that you shared it openly.

[–] LorenDB 2 days ago

Don't feel bad for publishing your code. A lot of people say "just share the prompt" but that assumes that the users have unlimited tokens to throw at replicating random one-off projects, which isn't always the case.