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vram22 on March 29, 2025 | parent | context | favorite | on: Plain – a web framework for building products with...

Interesting. Got more examples of this playbook?

gnuly on March 29, 2025 | [–]

I can think of:

  Sqlite -> Turso  
  PostgreSQL -> Neon  
  Chromium -> Arc browser

not exactly fork, but aimed at riding popularity of an already-established thing:

  Nodejs -> Bun

SJC_Hacker on March 29, 2025 | [–]

IRC -> Discord

no_wizard on March 29, 2025 | [–]

IRC -> Slack

Early slack actually supported being used by 3rd party IRC clients

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