> Ok, but why aren't there a thousand "made in a weekend" clones that at the very least function but have no users? There are. When Reddit switched from Lisp

> Ok, but why aren't there a thousand "made in a weekend" clones that at the very least function but have no users? There are. When Reddit switched from Lisp to Python, a number of Lisp users had negative things to say about that, and made their own clones over short time intervals to show just how superior Lisp is. There are a bunch of open source clones now: https://github.com/topics/reddit-clone https://github.com/topics/reddit-clone Twitter is even more trivial to clone, and this has more results: https://github.com/topics/twitter-clone https://github.com/topics/twitter-clone I'm not going to track down all the attempts to commercialize clones of either that shut down after a month, but they're out there.