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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Who cares if it already exists, just make it.

Also consider the possibility when the other, more popular projects got enshittified. Now the fleeing users have an option to switch to your project. It actually happened on one of my side project. I made it because I want to try building my own version of X. It got ~2000 users, but later down the road, X got sold to a new shitty owner that waste no time to enshittify it, and my side project suddenly grow to 20,000 users overnight.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

This makes me want to revive some of my comatose projects.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

X? Social media? /j